Art Quote by Jeffrey Smart Download Open image “Painting is a form of incarnation. It is spirit made manifest in the world.” — Jeffrey Smart ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Form Form Incarnation Incarnation Incarnation Spirit Made Manifest Painting Painting Form Religion Spirit World
Painting is at once a form of meditation and an utter, complete personal engagement with life. — Steven Whitney Copy Share Image
Painting comes to reality through illusion. An illusion that allows us to make a leap of faith; to believe. To believe in a blue… — Squeak Carnwath Copy Share Image
Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values. — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
Painting is a means of saying something about one's self in a beautiful or powerful way that people would like to see, but not… — David Luiz Copy Share Image
Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real. — Richard Pousette-Dart Copy Share Image
Art always used to involve spirit. Painters painted spirit. They painted by commission things to go into churches, and that was painting spirit. Or… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
“The painter is not simply someone who looks and who sees. Above all, the artist is someone who exposes a personal vision by rendering… — Marcel Paquet Copy Share Image
Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll drive around for months despair, nothing, nothing, then suddenly I will see something that seizes me... a shape, a combination of shapes,… — Jeffrey Smart Copy Share Image
I find myself moved by man in his new violent environment. I want to paint this explicitly and beautifully. — Jeffrey Smart Copy Share Image
I like living in the 20th century... to me the world has never been more beautiful. I am trying to paint the real world… — Jeffrey Smart Copy Share Image
Everybody gets inspired. We all have these moments. It just depends on whether you've got the ability to seize it. — Jeffrey Smart 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
