Art Quotes Page 5

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Page five rounds out this robust collection of art quotes. On this last page, you will hear from Robert Indiana, Salvador Dali, Twyla Tharp, and others.

One of my favorite art quotes is the one by Robert Schumann when he said, “to send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.” These words are very meaningful for me. Like any worthwhile effort, people must work hard to push back the darkness and bring bright wonderful light to as many people as possible.

All of these art quotes and sayings seem to shine a wonderful flashlight!

Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.
-Robert Delaunay

I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.
-Robert Indiana

I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.
-Robert Indiana

When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.
-Robert Mapplethorpe

To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.
-Robert Mapplethorpe

Wherever art appears, life disappears.
-Robert Motherwell

You begin with the possibilities of the material.
-Robert Rauschenberg

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
-Robert Schumann

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.
-Robert Smithson

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.
-Roy Lichtenstein

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
-Roy Lichtenstein

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
-Salvador Dali

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
-Salvador Dali

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
-Salvador Dali

The history of art is the history of revivals.
-Samuel Butler

Trying to force creativity is never good.
-Sarah McLachlan

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-Scott Adams

Minimal art went nowhere.
-Sol LeWitt

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Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.
-Stephen Sondheim

My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
-Tadao Ando

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
-Theodor Adorno

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.
-Theodor Adorno

No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
-Theodore Bikel

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
-Theodore Dreiser

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
-Thomas Merton

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.
-Tom Wolfe

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
-Twyla Tharp

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
-Vincent Van Gogh

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
-W. Somerset Maugham

The art of art, the glory of expression, and the sunshine of the light of letters is simplicity.
-Walt Whitman

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
-William Faulkner

Rules and models destroy genius and art.
-William Hazlitt

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
-William Wordsworth

Art is science made clear.
-Wilson Mizner

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
-Winston Churchill

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