Art Quote by Agnes de Mille

Art is a leap into the dark.

— Pablo Picasso

A great leap in the dark

— Thomas Hobbes

We stand on a precipice, then before a chasm, and as we wait it becomes higher, wider, deeper, but I am crazy enough to…

— Diane Arbus

When I leap, I briefly see the world as it is and as it should be.

— Cornelius Eady

If the artist succeeds in producing the impression of a movement which takes several moments for accomplishment, his work is certainly much less conventional…

— Auguste Rodin

To see, one must go beyond the imiagination and for that one must stand absolutely still as though at the center of a leap.

— John Cage

It's my turn, to take a leap into the darkness!

— Thomas Hobbes

Look before you leap.

— Anonymous

The job of the artist, is to say, wait a second, everything that we have thought is wrong. Let's re-examine it.

— David Mamet

Death was not to be a leap: it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows.

— George Eliot

In the sky we had rediscovered the moving principle of any work of art: the light, and the motion of color.

— Sonia Delaunay

We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the shadow of…

— Aleksandar Hemon