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Art Quotes by Charles de Lint
- Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
- As children, we come into the world with a natural desire to both speak and draw. Society makes sure that we learn language properly, right…
- You don't have to be Michelangelo to teach basic art, just as you don't have to be Shakespeare to be able to teach the correct…
- Music's always part of my writing. I think all art is interconnected. You can't create or experience one without its influences bleeding into another. In…
- The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like…
- The best artists know what to leave out.
- People want to know those details. They think it gives them greater insight into a piece of art, but when they approach a painting in…
- From the first time he’d met her, he’d sensed an air of contradiction about her. She was very much a woman, but still retained a…
- I do believe in an everyday sort of magic -- the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like;…
- It reminded me of that tongue-in-cheek quick history of art I'd overheard...Used to be people couldn't draw very well, then they could, and now they…
- Beauty isn't what you see on TV or in magazine ads or even necessarily in art galleries. It's a lot deeper and a lot simpler…
More Art Quotes
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have… — Karen Armstrong
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't… — Arthur Ashe
- Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. — Isaac Asimov