Quotes
Quotes about Art
If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
A guy ran a red light like at 2AM, got home fine, no police saw him or anything like that. About 3 weeks later he gets a bill from the police department and a photo of his truck running that light. So, like the smart/dumbass he is, he gets cute, lays out some money on the bed(the price of the ticket), takes a photo of it, and sends it in. So a few weeks pass and he gets another letter, this one has a photo of handcuffs. He promptly paid the bill.
Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine.
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
As diamond cuts diamond, and one hone smooths a second, all the parts of intellect are whetstones to each other; and genius, which is but the result of their mutual sharpening, is character too.
Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.
Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men--that is genius.
Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?
And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art. . . .
For it is truly bizarre for artists to be universally ranked among the giants, for generation after generation . . . and then be cast from the highest slopes of Parnassus to the lower slopes of art's ever-growing dust-heap.
The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea four things say not, It is enough: The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough.
Most beautiful but dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.
Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
Most beautiful but dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.
O how quickly passes away the glory of the earth. [Lat., O quam cito transit gloria mundi.]
Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.
Tasteful illumination of the night, Bright scattered, twinkling star of spangled earth.
He had a warning heart attack in his 30's after a meal of macaroni and cheese and big mac's and macaroons.. but God gave him a 2nd chance.
This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.
Two men please God--who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not.
Krishna was conceived in the womb of Devaki mysteriously as the sun setting in the West imparts his rays to the rising moon in the East.
Men talk of "finding God," but no wonder it is difficult; He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place, your heart. You yourself are a part of Him.
