Skip to content

Art Quote by Alma Gluck

“Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.” quote by Alma Gluck — Download Open image

“Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (4 ratings)

Art Artist Bird Butterfly Characteristics Natural Soar

More by Alma Gluck

Acquiring a repertoire in these days, when the vocal literature is so immense, so overwhelming, that the student with sense will devote all his…

Image

We are rich in the quantity of songs rather than in the quality. The singer has to go through hundreds of compositions before he…

Image

Inspired by the purse rather than the soul, the mercenary side fairly screams in many of the works put out by every day American…

Image

Vocal study before age 20 is likely to be injurious, though some survive it in the hands of very careful and understanding teachers.

Image

If the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it. One does not study for…

Image

In the piano, one has the instrument complete before he begins; but in the case of the voice, the instrument has to be developed…

Image

The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does “what he does for one reason and one reason…

Image

A student will send me an urgent appeal to hear her, saying she is poor and wants my advice as to whether it is…

Image

The sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in springtime.

Image

When the student has her voice under complete control, it is safe to take up the lyric repertoire of Mendelssohn, Old English Songs, etc.…

Image

One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident.

Image

French is, in many ways, more difficult for an English-speaking person to sing. It is so full of complex and trying vowels. It requires…

Image

Explore all 14 Alma Gluck quotes

More Art quotes

True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Image

Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and…

Benjamin Franklin

“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.”

Image

I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your…

Image

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

Image

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

Image

“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and…

Justina Chen Headley

“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it…

Image

The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

Image

During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.

Herbert Spencer

Image

In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are…

Robert Aris Willmott

Image

I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And…

Image

Browse all 48,652 Art quotes