Art Quote by Ernst Gombrich Download Open image “All art is image making and all image making is the creation of substitutes.” — Ernst Gombrich ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Art is Creation Substitutes
There is art in everything - industry, education, play, all are forms of art. — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
What we want from art is whatever is missing from the lives we are already living and making. Something is always missing, and so… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Art is - representing the beautiful. There must be Art in everything. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There's no making art for art's sake. You've got to make the best art you can. — John Gourley Copy Share Image
It took some time before the public learned that to appreciate an Impressionist painting one has to step back a few yards, and enjoy… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
What an artist worries about when he plans his pictures, is something... difficult to put into words. Perhaps he would say he worries about… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
All artistic discoveries are discoveries not of likenesses but of equivalencies which enable us to see reality in terms of an image and an… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
Seeing depends on knowledge / And knowledge, of course, on your college / But when you are erudite and wise / What matters is… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
The paintings in our galleries are seen one day in bright sunshine and another day in the dim light of a rainy afternoon, yet… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
During the days of my youth, critics and art-lovers resorted freely to this term of abuse. Even some of the most renowned Old Masters… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
What an artist worries about as he plans his pictures, makes his sketches, or wonders whether he has completed his canvas, is something much… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
One cannot explain the existence of genius. It is better to enjoy it. — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
If you ask me what the world looks like to me, it looks like a painting by Pissarro. — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
“We are all inclined to accept conventional forms or colours as the only correct ones. Children sometimes think that stars must be star-shaped, though… — Ernst Gombrich 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
