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Art Quotes by Robert Genn
- Art, because it's so easy to do, and yet so difficult to do well, encourages humility in the human soul.
- The thing about art is that life is in no danger of being meaningless,
- Abstract understanding doesn't mean arbitrary sloshing and messing. Abstract art is controlled visual magic based on laws and methodology. Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and…
- A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.
- Art is a path on which we honour our world.
- The studio is an extension of the sandbox and the kindergarten playroom. It has a dynamic unlike any office or factory. It's a room at…
- Artists are supposed to be the ones with imagination. A good part of our job description is to get regular people to use theirs.
- The job of art is to turn time into things.
- Art is a path on which we honour our world. Art may not be the only path, but it is a good path, even though…
- Art thrives on a difference of opinion. My treasure is your junk, sort of thing. Life would be dull if we all agreed.
- In life and art we need to make sure that we honour that which our hearts and brains tell us is good. And we should…
- In the companionship of art we are all of a time. Early or late we are to be shared.
- The oceans of art are awash with people who can't paint. When those who can't paint notice those who can, they are sometimes not inclined…
- As we grow older, we realize just how limiting were our earlier conceptions. Art is something else. Art is fluid, transmutable, open-ended, never complete, and…
- Art is a Great Goddess of infinite intrigue and illusion, and even a lifetime of worship may not find her fickle soul.
- Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.
- The brilliance of art as a collectible is that it has a way of reaching out on an emotional level. It touches on mystery, even…
- Our human landscape is overburdened with competitions and contests. Art need not be a contest. Art is a personal quest for quality. Quality is the…
- Critics are the products of their own times and biases and what they have to say about works of art is as transient and insubstantial…
- The centipede has rhythm and flow in its hundred legs precisely because it does not have to think about it. Consider this the next time…
- The pursuit of art is a delicate balance between influence and self-assertiveness. As self-realized artists, we all have different levels of tolerance for this mystery.…
- While Mojo suggests any art that invokes supernatural powers, for us creators Mojovation means finding magic in what we do.
- Music is the most abstract of the arts and it expresses the sound of the universe itself. These are the real rhythms that stimulate the…
- While knowledge of tools and the love of motif may be in your backpack, and all mountains may be measured by their previous heroes, art…
- In art, everyone who plays wins.
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