Art Quote by Edith Sitwell Download Open image “What an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see.” — Edith Sitwell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Inspirational Knows Love
Sometimes being an artist means knowing when to let someone see something in you that is there that you can't hear or see. — Michael Buble Copy Share Image
The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he has to make others see. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
No artist knows everything... but since every artist knows more than he can tell, all art is lying by omission. — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
Being an artist means seeing things and never having the ability to shut your eyes. — Keariene Muizz Copy Share Image
“It's been said that the role of the artist is to teach us to see and that's true. However, the role of other artists… — Brooks Jensen Copy Share Image
An artist needs knowledge and the power of observation only so that he can tell from what he is abstaining, and to be sure… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
By means of the iconic, artists express their view of reality and show their understanding of the structure of reality. They see what they… — Hans Rookmaaker Copy Share Image
The artist tries to see what there is to be interested in...He has not created something,he has seen something. — T. E. Hulme Copy Share Image
Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
The reason why Matthew Arnold, to my feeling, fails entirely as a poet (though no doubt his ideas were good - at least, I… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
The great sins and fires break out of me like the terrible leaves from the bough in the violent spring. I am a walking… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
“Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
“Said the lion to the lioness - "when you are amber dust - No more a raging fire like the heat of the sun… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
“The fusty showman fumbles, must Fit in a particle of dust The universe, for fear it gain Its freedom from my cube of brain.… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
What is the special privilege of youth? It is, I think, the power of looking forward, the firm belief that the future holds something… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality. Rhythm might be described as, to the world of sound, what light is… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share 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… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share 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… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share 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… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
