"A work of art; and yet no art of man,
Can work, this work, these little creatures can." ~Geoffrey Whitney
"A work of art was once a work in progress " ~Adele Leon
"Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic." ~Jorge Luis Borges
“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”
Chuck Klosterman
"Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes." ~Kahli Gibran
"Art breaks barriers!" ~Tom Yendell
“Art can make an impact wherever you find it." ~Alana Karsch
"Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame." ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” ~Thomas Merton
"Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure." ~Alfred North Whitehead
"Art has the role in education for helping children become more like themselves instead of more like everyone else." ~Sydney Gurewitz Clemens on We Are Born Creative
"Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen." ~from "What is Art?" (1896) by Leo Tolstoy
"Art is a process of delivering or arranging elements that appeal to the emotions of a person looking at it. It's what you feel." ~Shaquille O'Neal
"Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life." ~Fernando Botero
"Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed." ~Khalil Gibran
"Art is as natural as sunshine and as vital as nourishment." ~Marilyn F. Kohl
"Art is autobiography made flesh. Art is sending the message that life has merit, that people have merit. I think we should see things that make us all want to go out and live better and share the good things we have seen. I think we should, without ever meeting, let it be known that we are here to support and protect each other." ~Marlon Brando (Centre of Applied Jungian Studies)
"Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature." ~Cicero
"Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated." ~Auguste Rodin, In Art/Nature
"Art is either revolution or plagiarism." ~Paul Gauguin
"Art is eternal, for it reveals the inner landscape, which is the soul of man." ~Martha Graham
"Art is meant to disturb, science reassures." ~George Braque
"Art is never finished, only abandoned.” ~Leonardo da Vinci
"Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced." ~Leo Tolstoy
“Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.” ~Bertolt Brecht
"Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth." ~John Ruskin
"Art is not meant to be created in stolen moments only." ~Clarissa Pinkola Estes
"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see." ~Edgar Degas
"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see." ~Alexander Hugo
"Art is really a refuge. A few moments of suspended simple engagement of beauty in an ugly world." ~Deepika Sorabjee
"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth." ~Pablo Picasso
"Art is the life and soul of any artist; be it paint, rock, song or poetry. Love it because its your best friend." ~Penny Graham on Lake Tyrel Art
"Art is the objectification of feeling." ~Herman Melville
"Art is the only way to travel without seeing the world." ~Twyla Tharp
"Art only begins where imitation ends." ~from De Profundis
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"A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires." ~Hedy Lamarr
"A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, becinause all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light." ~Leonardo da Vinci
"A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it." ~Corita Kent
"A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world." ~Hans Hofmann
"A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art." ~Paul Cezanne
"A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they’re capable of understanding." ~Steve Prefontaine
"As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward." ~Vincent van Gogh on art
"All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous." -Iris Murdoch
"All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography." ~Oscar Wilde
"All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does not in any way change the above thesis." ~Upton Sinclair (1878-1968)
"Among all the arts, a sunset never fails to impress." ~Jonathan Chen
"An abstract painting although abstract in name and nature, it allows us to see deep into our own reality." ~Ezra Warhol
"An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures." ~Wassily Kandinsky
"Architecture is a visual art and the buildings speak for themselves." ~Julia Morgan
“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.” ~Chuck Klosterman
"As I grew older, I realised that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art." ~Albrecht Dürer
"… awe is particularly elicited by people’s experiences of nature and of art but interestingly, they also experience awe though becoming aware of impressive individuals and feats, including acts of great expertise or morality." ~Dacher Keltner, Professor of Psychology, UC Berkeley
"Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art." ~Eleanor Roosevelt
"There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk." ~Charles Dickens
"There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection." ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Except to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiseling and scraping and polishing.’’ ~Bertie Charles Forbes
"To create a work of art is to create the world." ~Wassily Kandinsky
"To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach." ~ Havelock Ellis
"To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it." ~Kurt Vonnegut
"Vision is the art of seeing the invisible." ~James Madison
"When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree." ~William Blake
"In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing." ~Vincent Van Gogh
"In the artist of all kinds one can detect an inherent dilemma which belongs to the co-existence of two trends; the urgent need to communicate and the still more urgent need not to be found." ~D.W. Winnicott
"In the mind of every artist there is a masterpiece." ~Kai Greene
"Insecure writers follow the rules. Rebellious writers break the rules. An artist masters the form.” ~Robert McKee
"Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight." ~Rumi
"Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly." ~Henry Fielding (1707-1754)I
"I live and love in God's peculiar light." ~Michelangelo
"It’s a new year and that offers the possibility of a refreshing commencement and the creation of a revitalized life. Today make a commitment to live in the moment and be the artist of your exceptional, more purposeful, and significant life. Always remember that you are the artist and you have the freedom to paint the portrait of
your existence in any way you wish. There are endless possibilities for your life. Within you lies the power to create the life you desire. What is your initial plan for the invention of your new life?" ~From Your Daily Walk with The Great Minds Authored By Richard A. Singer Jr. MA
"It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way." ~Claude Monet
"Kindness is an art. You are the painter, and the painting. Color your words — your world — with soft tones and enhanced effect." ~Drei Toledo
"Let your imagination picture the home of the saved, and remember that it will be more glorious than your brightest imagination can portray. ..”. ~from Becky Kay
“Life is like a collage. Its individual pieces are arranged to create harmony. Appreciate the artwork of your life." ~Amy Leigh Mercree
"Living is art.
Breathing and heart beating is music.
Seeing is painting the world with our eyes.
Touching is sculpting the shape of everything.
Life is the most intense art of all."
~Jacob Nordby
"Man cannot remake himself without suffering for he is both the marble and the scupltor." ~Alexis Carrell
"People want to see your art at their eye level; they don't want to have to crane their necks to see it." ~Janet Lee
"So easy to be an artist with plants and flowers. They are the teachers." ~Julia A. Baeyens
"The art of love is largely the art of persistence." ~Albert Ellis
"The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing." ~Doris Humphrey
"The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.” -Albert Einstein
"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the young mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards." ~Anatole France
"There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting." ~Robert Rauschenberg
"To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong." ~Sigma Photo Australia
"To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies." ~Willa Cather (1873-1947)
"Your body is not your masterpiece - your life is.... Your body is not your art, it’s your paintbrush. ...
Pick up your instrument and start painting this day beautiful and bold and wild and free and YOU.” ~Glennon Melton from Butterflies and Pebbles
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IMAGINATION
"A clever imagination and humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds." ~Percy Ross
"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.” ~Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
"For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination." ~Sir Conan Arthur Doyle
"I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see." ~Duane Michals
"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death." ~From Nenita Clavano
"It is out of your imagination that the seeds of your success are sown." ~Zephyr Bloch-Jorgensen
"Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love." ~Gilbert Parker
"Imagination means nothing without doing." ~Charlie Chaplin
"Imagination should be used, not to escape reality but to create it." ~Colin Wilson
“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.” ~Carl Sagan
"Love is like a piece of art work, even the smallest bit can be so beautiful." ~Stacie Cunningham
"One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination." ~Sam Levenson
"The mightiest lever known to the moral world... imagination." ~William Wordsworth
"The power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye could actually see.” ~Nelson Mandela
"You could set out to write your name in the stars, but you’ll have a much grander time painting the world with your heart." ~Robert Clancy
"You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need." ~Jerry Gillies
VERSE
“The stone unhewn and cold
Becomes a living mould,
The more the marble wastes
The more the statue grows.”
~Michelangelo Buonarotti
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"All art is an individual's expression of a culture. Cultures differ, so art looks different." ~Henry Glassie
"Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic." ~Jorge Luis Borges
“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”
Chuck Klosterman
"Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes." ~Kahli Gibran
"Art breaks barriers!" ~Tom Yendell
“Art can make an impact wherever you find it." ~Alana Karsch
"Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame." ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” ~Thomas Merton
"Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure." ~Alfred North Whitehead
"Art has the role in education for helping children become more like themselves instead of more like everyone else." ~Sydney Gurewitz Clemens on We Are Born Creative
"Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen." ~from "What is Art?" (1896) by Leo Tolstoy
"Art is a process of delivering or arranging elements that appeal to the emotions of a person looking at it. It's what you feel." ~Shaquille O'Neal
"Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life." ~Fernando Botero
"Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed." ~Khalil Gibran
“Art is a Therapeutic process to help us heal our emotions. Art Therapy is all forms of colour, creativity and expressions to explore our self worth to look at the positive aspects of life.” ~Natural Therapy, FB
"Art is as natural as sunshine and as vital as nourishment." ~Marilyn F. Kohl
"Art is autobiography made flesh. Art is sending the message that life has merit, that people have merit. I think we should see things that make us all want to go out and live better and share the good things we have seen. I think we should, without ever meeting, let it be known that we are here to support and protect each other." ~Marlon Brando (Centre of Applied Jungian Studies)
"Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature." ~Cicero
"Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated." ~Auguste Rodin, In Art/Nature
"Art is either revolution or plagiarism." ~Paul Gauguin
"Art is eternal, for it reveals the inner landscape, which is the soul of man." ~Martha Graham
"Art is meant to disturb, science reassures." ~George Braque
"Art is never finished, only abandoned.” ~Leonardo da Vinci
"Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced." ~Leo Tolstoy
“Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.” ~Bertolt Brecht
"Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth." ~John Ruskin
"Art is not meant to be created in stolen moments only." ~Clarissa Pinkola Estes
"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see." ~Edgar Degas
"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see." ~Alexander Hugo
"Art is really a refuge. A few moments of suspended simple engagement of beauty in an ugly world." ~Deepika Sorabjee
"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth." ~Pablo Picasso
"Art is the life and soul of any artist; be it paint, rock, song or poetry. Love it because its your best friend." ~Penny Graham on Lake Tyrel Art
"Art is the objectification of feeling." ~Herman Melville
"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home." ~Twlya Tharp
"Art is the only way to travel without seeing the world." ~Twyla Tharp
"Art is what you make of it. You can't just read it, or look at it or even listen to it. Art is meant to be felt. So yes, feel something. You can't just be cold and he(art)less all the time." ~Han Solos Smile
"Art only begins where imitation ends." ~from De Profundis
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"A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires." ~Hedy Lamarr
"A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, becinause all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light." ~Leonardo da Vinci
"A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it." ~Corita Kent
"A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world." ~Hans Hofmann
"A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art." ~Paul Cezanne
"A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they’re capable of understanding." ~Steve Prefontaine
"As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward." ~Vincent van Gogh on art
"All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous." -Iris Murdoch
"All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography." ~Oscar Wilde
"All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does not in any way change the above thesis." ~Upton Sinclair (1878-1968)
"Among all the arts, a sunset never fails to impress." ~Jonathan Chen
"An abstract painting although abstract in name and nature, it allows us to see deep into our own reality." ~Ezra Warhol
"An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures." ~Wassily Kandinsky
"Architecture is a visual art and the buildings speak for themselves." ~Julia Morgan
“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.” ~Chuck Klosterman
"As I grew older, I realised that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art." ~Albrecht Dürer
"… awe is particularly elicited by people’s experiences of nature and of art but interestingly, they also experience awe though becoming aware of impressive individuals and feats, including acts of great expertise or morality." ~Dacher Keltner, Professor of Psychology, UC Berkeley
"Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art." ~Eleanor Roosevelt
"Beauty is art, you are the canvas." ~lifted from The Beauty and Brow
"Before a child speaks, it sings.
Before they write, they paint.
As soon as they stand, they dance.
Art is the basis of human expression."
~Phylicia Rashad
"Contrast is what makes photography interesting." ~Conrad Hall
"Creativity is not linear." ~Stephanie Flaxman
"Don't compare. You paint differently because you are different." ~Frank Lynn
"Do not just practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine." ~Ludwig van Beethoven (2017 will bring this to life)
"Before a child speaks, it sings.
Before they write, they paint.
As soon as they stand, they dance.
Art is the basis of human expression."
~Phylicia Rashad
"Contrast is what makes photography interesting." ~Conrad Hall
"Creativity is not linear." ~Stephanie Flaxman
"Don't compare. You paint differently because you are different." ~Frank Lynn
"Do not just practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine." ~Ludwig van Beethoven (2017 will bring this to life)
"Drawing at its best is not what your eyes see but what our mind understands." ~Millard Sheets
"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter." ~Oscar Wilde
"Everything in art is but a copy of nature." ~Sir Walter Scott, Proverbs Quotes
"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter." ~Oscar Wilde
"Everything in art is but a copy of nature." ~Sir Walter Scott, Proverbs Quotes
“Filming is a funny combination of having a good time and not being able to wait until it’s over.” ~Nicole Holofcener (lifted from Carrington Hotel, FB)
"Gardens are the result of a collaboration between art and nature." ~Penelope Hobhouse
"I am a museum full of art but you had your eyes shut." ~Rupi Kaur
"I believe that all the arts, and especially music, are necessary to a full life." ~Ralph Vaughan Williams
"I never know if what I paint is coming from my memory, my imagination, or some composite of the two." ~Anon
"I paint object as I think them, not as I see them." ~Picasso
"I would define 'hidden art' as the art found in the ordinary areas of everyday life. Each person has, I believe, some talent which is unfulfilled in some hidden area of his being -- a talent which could be expressed and developed." ~Edith Schaeffer, Author, 1971
"Gardens are the result of a collaboration between art and nature." ~Penelope Hobhouse
"I am a museum full of art but you had your eyes shut." ~Rupi Kaur
"I believe that all the arts, and especially music, are necessary to a full life." ~Ralph Vaughan Williams
"I never know if what I paint is coming from my memory, my imagination, or some composite of the two." ~Anon
"I paint object as I think them, not as I see them." ~Picasso
"I would define 'hidden art' as the art found in the ordinary areas of everyday life. Each person has, I believe, some talent which is unfulfilled in some hidden area of his being -- a talent which could be expressed and developed." ~Edith Schaeffer, Author, 1971
“I would like to paint the way a bird sings.” ~Claude Monet
"If I didn't think what I was doing had something to do with enlarging the boundaries of art, I wouldn't go on doing it." ~Claes Oldenburg
"..in a painting, what we see is not a tree as seen by a botanist, but rather a humanized tree.." ~Adolfo Sánchez Vásquez
"In art as in love, instinct is enough." ~Anatole France
"In Art/Nature Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'" ~Anon
"In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love." ~Marc Chagall
"It doesn't matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a ruble. Each painting displayed in a gallery and each good book that makes it into a library, no matter how small they may be, serves a great cause: accretion of the national wealth." ~Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904), Russian author, playwright.
"It has become clear to me that the function of art is not only for beauty making, but for soul making. For every creative effort we make, we work a little bit upon ourselves, shaping the raw material of our beingness into something unique and staggeringly beautiful." -Temple Wind Flutes by Craig Paterson
"It is not quantity which counts with colors, but choice and organization." ~Henri Matisse on art
"Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do." ~Elizabeth Bowen
"Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more." ~Vincent van Gogh on art
"Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world." ~Wassily Kandinsky
"If I didn't think what I was doing had something to do with enlarging the boundaries of art, I wouldn't go on doing it." ~Claes Oldenburg
"..in a painting, what we see is not a tree as seen by a botanist, but rather a humanized tree.." ~Adolfo Sánchez Vásquez
"In art as in love, instinct is enough." ~Anatole France
"In Art/Nature Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'" ~Anon
"In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love." ~Marc Chagall
"It doesn't matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a ruble. Each painting displayed in a gallery and each good book that makes it into a library, no matter how small they may be, serves a great cause: accretion of the national wealth." ~Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904), Russian author, playwright.
"It has become clear to me that the function of art is not only for beauty making, but for soul making. For every creative effort we make, we work a little bit upon ourselves, shaping the raw material of our beingness into something unique and staggeringly beautiful." -Temple Wind Flutes by Craig Paterson
"It is not quantity which counts with colors, but choice and organization." ~Henri Matisse on art
"Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do." ~Elizabeth Bowen
"Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more." ~Vincent van Gogh on art
"Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world." ~Wassily Kandinsky
"Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art." ~Maya Angelou
"Life is the art of drawing without an eraser" ~John W. Gardner
"Life is the art of drawing without an eraser" ~John W. Gardner
"Nature is art in the purest form." ~A.D. Williams
"Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have a heightened sensitivity for composition and for colours, and that you be a true poet. This last is essential." ~Wassily Kandinsky
"Only art penetrates … the seeming realities of this world. There is another reality, the genuine one, which we lose sight of. This other reality is always sending us hints, which without art, we can’t receive.” ~Saul Bellow, Nobel Prize Recipient
“Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do” ~Edgar Degas
"Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen." ~Leonardo da Vinci
"Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have a heightened sensitivity for composition and for colours, and that you be a true poet. This last is essential." ~Wassily Kandinsky
"Only art penetrates … the seeming realities of this world. There is another reality, the genuine one, which we lose sight of. This other reality is always sending us hints, which without art, we can’t receive.” ~Saul Bellow, Nobel Prize Recipient
“Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do” ~Edgar Degas
"Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen." ~Leonardo da Vinci
"Painting, like poetry, is one of the undying form of art. It has its own immortality even if the artist is dead." ~Leah C Dancel, 9 February 2024
"Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow." ~Sir Ian McKellen
"Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow." ~Sir Ian McKellen
Portrait of my Grandmother
by Selima Dancel Petro
June 15, 2023
"Put down the camera and immerse yourself in art and culture." ~Julie Powell
"Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art." ~Bliss Carman
"She is adamant that creativity is not something that can be taught. " ~Adi Bloom on Judy Kerr
"Simplicity is the last step of art." ~Bruce Lee
"Space is the breath of art." ~Frank Lloyd Wright
"Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art." ~Bliss Carman
"She is adamant that creativity is not something that can be taught. " ~Adi Bloom on Judy Kerr
"Simplicity is the last step of art." ~Bruce Lee
"Space is the breath of art." ~Frank Lloyd Wright
"Stay in the beauty of your art. Everything else is nonsense."
~Derwent Art
"The art is long, life is short." ~Hippocrates
"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." ~William James
"The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself." ~Emmet Fox
"The art of love is painted upon the canvas of the world with every brushstroke of kindness." ~Robert Clancy
"… the art painting on the wall is a masterpiece as the gift of time you had long been graced." ~Edward Soliangco
"The arts are simply a kind of writing, which, in one way or another, fixes words or gestures, and gives body to the invisible." ~Alain [Emile-Auguste Chartier] (1868-1951), French philosopher
"The arts are the means by which we can look through the magic casements and see what lies beyond." ~Ralph Vaughan Williams
"The beauty of travel is you get to immerse with the culture and art." ~Judith Encabo Manabilang
"The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor." ~J. Paul Getty
"The best art always seems effortless." ~Stephen Sondheim
"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic." ~Oscar Wild
“The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life -- the terror of art.” ~Franz Kafka
"The infirmity of art was the candour of affection, the grossness of pedigree the refinement of sympathy; the ugliest objects, in fact, as a general thing, were the bravest, the tenderest mementos, and, as such, figured in glass cases apart, worthy doubtless of the home, but not worthy of the temple — dedicated to the grimacing, not to the clear-faced, gods." ~Henry James, The Golden Bowl from Everyman's Library
"The noblest art is making others HAPPY." ~PT Barnum
"The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through." ~Jackson Pollock on art
"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." ~William James
"The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself." ~Emmet Fox
"The art of love is painted upon the canvas of the world with every brushstroke of kindness." ~Robert Clancy
"… the art painting on the wall is a masterpiece as the gift of time you had long been graced." ~Edward Soliangco
"The arts are simply a kind of writing, which, in one way or another, fixes words or gestures, and gives body to the invisible." ~Alain [Emile-Auguste Chartier] (1868-1951), French philosopher
"The arts are the means by which we can look through the magic casements and see what lies beyond." ~Ralph Vaughan Williams
"The beauty of travel is you get to immerse with the culture and art." ~Judith Encabo Manabilang
"The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor." ~J. Paul Getty
"The best art always seems effortless." ~Stephen Sondheim
"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic." ~Oscar Wild
“The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life -- the terror of art.” ~Franz Kafka
"The infirmity of art was the candour of affection, the grossness of pedigree the refinement of sympathy; the ugliest objects, in fact, as a general thing, were the bravest, the tenderest mementos, and, as such, figured in glass cases apart, worthy doubtless of the home, but not worthy of the temple — dedicated to the grimacing, not to the clear-faced, gods." ~Henry James, The Golden Bowl from Everyman's Library
"The noblest art is making others HAPPY." ~PT Barnum
"The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through." ~Jackson Pollock on art
“The theatre is an art that brings people together and can divide or unify them: it’s an art of the collective. There is a political theatricality, or a politics of theatricality, which comes together around the figure of the rally. After all, many politicians of our societies consciously practice this theatricality when they address crowds... The theatricality of politics is self-evident: there is an organic relationship between theatre and politics, all the more strong since theatre is a public institution and since the State still involves itself in the situation of the theatre.” ~Alain Badiou, “In Praise of Theatre”
"There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk." ~Charles Dickens
"There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection." ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Except to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiseling and scraping and polishing.’’ ~Bertie Charles Forbes
"To create a work of art is to create the world." ~Wassily Kandinsky
"To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach." ~ Havelock Ellis
"To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it." ~Kurt Vonnegut
"Vision is the art of seeing the invisible." ~James Madison
"When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree." ~William Blake
"Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity." ~Hippocrates
“Writing is the painting of the voice; the closer the resemblance, the better it is” ~Voltaire
"You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul." ~George Bernard Shaw
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ARTISTS QUOTES
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"All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness" ~Eckhart Tolle
“An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.” ~Louise Bourgeois
"An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one." ~Charles Cooley
"An artist remembers unconsciously in his art what mankind has forgotten in its soul." ~Anon
"An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature ." ~Auguste Renoir
“Writing is the painting of the voice; the closer the resemblance, the better it is” ~Voltaire
"You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul." ~George Bernard Shaw
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“...a great artist is one who alters the world for us, for ever.” ~ Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, quote lifted from Hugh Speirs book ‘Landscape Art and the Blue Mountains.
"All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness" ~Eckhart Tolle
“An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.” ~Louise Bourgeois
"An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one." ~Charles Cooley
"An artist remembers unconsciously in his art what mankind has forgotten in its soul." ~Anon
"An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature ." ~Auguste Renoir
"And in a painting I’d like to say something consoling, like a piece of music.” ~Vincent van Gogh, September 1888
"Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons" ~Al Hirschfeld
"Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything." ~Eugene Delacroix
"As an artist, I have to relate to humanity’s struggles. I never separate these situations from my art." ~Ai Weiwei
"Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons" ~Al Hirschfeld
"Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything." ~Eugene Delacroix
"As an artist, I have to relate to humanity’s struggles. I never separate these situations from my art." ~Ai Weiwei
"As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see." ~Vincent Van Gogh
“But otherwise — painting and, to my mind, particularly painting peasant life, gives peace of mind, even though one has a lot of scraping along and wretchedness on the outside of life.” ~Vincent Van Gogh, written on June 22, 1885
“Creative people are curious, flexible, persistent, and independent with a tremendous spirit of adventure and a love of play.” ~Henri Matisse
"Creativity takes courage." ~Henri Matisse
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." ~Pablo Picasso
"I must have flowers, always and always." ~Claude Monet
"I paint what I find beautiful. Unique things of beauty that catch my eye are my subjects and I try to replicate the scene in paints on canvas. I had no idea it was my sole into which I was dipping brush and that it was my nature I was painting. If one is alert and open minded, the things one can learn every day are amazing." ~Jim Chiddix
"I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers." ~Claude Monet
"I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process." ~Vincent Van Gogh
"I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value." ~Camille Pissarro
"I think the art world heightens the intensity of desires for inclusion, and the humiliations of exclusion, which is why it's a great place to circulate when you are in the lucky position, as I am, of not wanting or needing anything from anyone." ~Rachel Kushner
“But otherwise — painting and, to my mind, particularly painting peasant life, gives peace of mind, even though one has a lot of scraping along and wretchedness on the outside of life.” ~Vincent Van Gogh, written on June 22, 1885
“Creative people are curious, flexible, persistent, and independent with a tremendous spirit of adventure and a love of play.” ~Henri Matisse
"Creativity takes courage." ~Henri Matisse
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." ~Pablo Picasso
"I must have flowers, always and always." ~Claude Monet
"I paint what I find beautiful. Unique things of beauty that catch my eye are my subjects and I try to replicate the scene in paints on canvas. I had no idea it was my sole into which I was dipping brush and that it was my nature I was painting. If one is alert and open minded, the things one can learn every day are amazing." ~Jim Chiddix
"I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers." ~Claude Monet
"I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process." ~Vincent Van Gogh
"I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value." ~Camille Pissarro
"I think the art world heightens the intensity of desires for inclusion, and the humiliations of exclusion, which is why it's a great place to circulate when you are in the lucky position, as I am, of not wanting or needing anything from anyone." ~Rachel Kushner
“I would like to paint the way a bird sings.” ~Claude Monet
"In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing." ~Vincent Van Gogh
"In the artist of all kinds one can detect an inherent dilemma which belongs to the co-existence of two trends; the urgent need to communicate and the still more urgent need not to be found." ~D.W. Winnicott
"In the mind of every artist there is a masterpiece." ~Kai Greene
"Insecure writers follow the rules. Rebellious writers break the rules. An artist masters the form.” ~Robert McKee
"Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight." ~Rumi
"It is in the waters of Mare Nostrum that I dip my brush. Cradle of our civilization, place of crossbreeding and exchanges, like Fernand Braudel the Mediterranean has always fascinated me." ~Kristoff Lambert, French Artist
"It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails." ~Romain Rolland
"Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist." ~Pablo Picasso
"No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything." ~Oscar Wilde
"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist." ~Oscar Wilde
"Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time." ~Camille Pissarro
"Paint the essential character of things." ~Camille Pissarro
"Painting, art in general, enchants me. It is my life. What else matters? When you put all your soul into a work, all that is noble in you, you cannot fail to find a kindred soul who understands you, and you do not need a host of such spirits. Is not that all an artist should wish for?" ~Camille Pissarro
"Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion." ~Vincent Van Gogh
"Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is." ~Jackson Pollock
"The angel was always in the marble." ~Michelangelo
"The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him." ~Auguste Rodin
"The artist is in love with a blank canvas, an empty sheet of paper, a piece of rough marble. As soon as his hand has rendered them immortal, he regards them with horror; and woe to him if he remains in love with them." ~Anon
"The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist" ~Eric Gill
"The artist is not a special kind of person; rather each person is a special kind of artist." ~Ananda Coomaraswamy
"The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul." ~Wassily Kandinsky
"The artist need not know very much; best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks." ~Emil Nolde
"The artist who is to produce a work which is to be admired, not by his friends or his towns-people or his contemporaries, but by a ll men, and which is to be more beautiful to the eye in proportion to its culture, must disindividualize himself, and be a man of no party and no manner and no age, but one through whom the soul of all men circulates as the common air through his lungs. He must work in the spirit in which we conceive a prophet to speak, or an angel of the Lord to act; that is, he is not to speak his own words, or do his own works, or think his own thoughts, but he is to be an organ through which the universal mind acts." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The great artist is the simplifier." ~Vincent Van Gogh
"The motivation of an artist is to seek attention of some kind." ~James Taylor
"The new creature we artists are hunting for will not "live" so much, as like time itself, "elapse." ~Lawrence Durrell
"The pain passes, but the beauty remains". ~Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
"The painter has the universe in his mind and hands." ~Leonardo da Vince
“The reason I asked for some watercolour paints is because I’d like to do some pen drawings, but coloured in flat tints like Japanese prints.” ~Vincent Van Gogh, 27 May 1888
"The thinker or artist whose better self has fled into his works feels an almost malicious joy when he sees his body and spirit slowly broken into and destroyed by time; it is as if he were in a corner, watching a thief at work on his safe, all the while knowing that it is empty and that all his treasures have been rescued." ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All-Too-Human
"The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The true artist has always something to say in addition to what is visible in drawing." ~Felizardo Demetillo
"To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence." ~Louise Bourgeouis
"To draw you must close your eyes and sing." ~Pablo Picasso
"To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it." ~Kurt Vonnegot
"What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought." ~David Hockney
"With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance." ~Norman Mailer
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OTHERS
“All artists, whether they know it or not create from a place of inner stillness, a place of no mind.” ~Eckhart Tolle
"Artistic inspiration ignores the law of supply and demand." ~Mason Cooley
“Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.” ~Donald Woods Winnicott
"Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors - it's how you combine them that sets you apart." ~Wolfgang Puck
“Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by orginality, overcomes everything.” ~George Lois
"It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails." ~Romain Rolland
"Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist." ~Pablo Picasso
"No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything." ~Oscar Wilde
"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist." ~Oscar Wilde
"Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time." ~Camille Pissarro
"Paint the essential character of things." ~Camille Pissarro
"Painting, art in general, enchants me. It is my life. What else matters? When you put all your soul into a work, all that is noble in you, you cannot fail to find a kindred soul who understands you, and you do not need a host of such spirits. Is not that all an artist should wish for?" ~Camille Pissarro
"Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion." ~Vincent Van Gogh
"Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is." ~Jackson Pollock
"The angel was always in the marble." ~Michelangelo
"The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him." ~Auguste Rodin
"The artist is in love with a blank canvas, an empty sheet of paper, a piece of rough marble. As soon as his hand has rendered them immortal, he regards them with horror; and woe to him if he remains in love with them." ~Anon
"The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist" ~Eric Gill
"The artist is not a special kind of person; rather each person is a special kind of artist." ~Ananda Coomaraswamy
"The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul." ~Wassily Kandinsky
"The artist need not know very much; best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks." ~Emil Nolde
"The artist who is to produce a work which is to be admired, not by his friends or his towns-people or his contemporaries, but by a ll men, and which is to be more beautiful to the eye in proportion to its culture, must disindividualize himself, and be a man of no party and no manner and no age, but one through whom the soul of all men circulates as the common air through his lungs. He must work in the spirit in which we conceive a prophet to speak, or an angel of the Lord to act; that is, he is not to speak his own words, or do his own works, or think his own thoughts, but he is to be an organ through which the universal mind acts." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The great artist is the simplifier." ~Vincent Van Gogh
"The motivation of an artist is to seek attention of some kind." ~James Taylor
"The new creature we artists are hunting for will not "live" so much, as like time itself, "elapse." ~Lawrence Durrell
"The pain passes, but the beauty remains". ~Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
"The painter has the universe in his mind and hands." ~Leonardo da Vince
“The reason I asked for some watercolour paints is because I’d like to do some pen drawings, but coloured in flat tints like Japanese prints.” ~Vincent Van Gogh, 27 May 1888
"The thinker or artist whose better self has fled into his works feels an almost malicious joy when he sees his body and spirit slowly broken into and destroyed by time; it is as if he were in a corner, watching a thief at work on his safe, all the while knowing that it is empty and that all his treasures have been rescued." ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All-Too-Human
"The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The true artist has always something to say in addition to what is visible in drawing." ~Felizardo Demetillo
"To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence." ~Louise Bourgeouis
"To draw you must close your eyes and sing." ~Pablo Picasso
"To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it." ~Kurt Vonnegot
"What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought." ~David Hockney
"With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance." ~Norman Mailer
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OTHERS
“All artists, whether they know it or not create from a place of inner stillness, a place of no mind.” ~Eckhart Tolle
"Artistic inspiration ignores the law of supply and demand." ~Mason Cooley
“Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.” ~Donald Woods Winnicott
"Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors - it's how you combine them that sets you apart." ~Wolfgang Puck
“Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by orginality, overcomes everything.” ~George Lois
"Entertainment has this way of resetting itself." ~Zachary Levi
"Every artist was first an amateur." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour." ~Giotto di Bondone
"Every artist was first an amateur." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour." ~Giotto di Bondone
"Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly." ~Henry Fielding (1707-1754)I
"I live and love in God's peculiar light." ~Michelangelo
"It’s a new year and that offers the possibility of a refreshing commencement and the creation of a revitalized life. Today make a commitment to live in the moment and be the artist of your exceptional, more purposeful, and significant life. Always remember that you are the artist and you have the freedom to paint the portrait of
your existence in any way you wish. There are endless possibilities for your life. Within you lies the power to create the life you desire. What is your initial plan for the invention of your new life?" ~From Your Daily Walk with The Great Minds Authored By Richard A. Singer Jr. MA
"It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way." ~Claude Monet
"Kindness is an art. You are the painter, and the painting. Color your words — your world — with soft tones and enhanced effect." ~Drei Toledo
"Let your imagination picture the home of the saved, and remember that it will be more glorious than your brightest imagination can portray. ..”. ~from Becky Kay
“Life is like a collage. Its individual pieces are arranged to create harmony. Appreciate the artwork of your life." ~Amy Leigh Mercree
"Living is art.
Breathing and heart beating is music.
Seeing is painting the world with our eyes.
Touching is sculpting the shape of everything.
Life is the most intense art of all."
~Jacob Nordby
"Man cannot remake himself without suffering for he is both the marble and the scupltor." ~Alexis Carrell
"People want to see your art at their eye level; they don't want to have to crane their necks to see it." ~Janet Lee
"So easy to be an artist with plants and flowers. They are the teachers." ~Julia A. Baeyens
"The art of love is largely the art of persistence." ~Albert Ellis
"The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing." ~Doris Humphrey
"The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.” -Albert Einstein
"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the young mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards." ~Anatole France
"There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting." ~Robert Rauschenberg
"To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong." ~Sigma Photo Australia
"To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies." ~Willa Cather (1873-1947)
"Your body is not your masterpiece - your life is.... Your body is not your art, it’s your paintbrush. ...
Pick up your instrument and start painting this day beautiful and bold and wild and free and YOU.” ~Glennon Melton from Butterflies and Pebbles
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IMAGINATION
"A clever imagination and humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds." ~Percy Ross
"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.” ~Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
"For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination." ~Sir Conan Arthur Doyle
"I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see." ~Duane Michals
"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death." ~From Nenita Clavano
"It is out of your imagination that the seeds of your success are sown." ~Zephyr Bloch-Jorgensen
"Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love." ~Gilbert Parker
"Imagination means nothing without doing." ~Charlie Chaplin
"Imagination should be used, not to escape reality but to create it." ~Colin Wilson
“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.” ~Carl Sagan
"Love is like a piece of art work, even the smallest bit can be so beautiful." ~Stacie Cunningham
"One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination." ~Sam Levenson
"The mightiest lever known to the moral world... imagination." ~William Wordsworth
"The power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye could actually see.” ~Nelson Mandela
"You could set out to write your name in the stars, but you’ll have a much grander time painting the world with your heart." ~Robert Clancy
"You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need." ~Jerry Gillies
VERSE
“The stone unhewn and cold
Becomes a living mould,
The more the marble wastes
The more the statue grows.”
~Michelangelo Buonarotti
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