Art Quote by John Olsen Download Open image “Art is not so much talent as character… it's what you are, the qualities of the person.” — John Olsen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Art is Character Persons Quality Talent
Art or talent, for an artist, is merely a means of applying his personal faculties to the ideas and the things of the period… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
Art is more than a product of your efforts - it should be about feeling, life, attitude, soul. — Sergei Bongart Copy Share Image
Art is not in some far-off place. A work of Art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability — Shinichi Suzuki Copy Share Image
Talent is cheap, you have to be possessed or obsessed, rather. You really have to feel like you cannot not do art, and that… — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
To be an artist is a blessing and a privilege. Artists must never betray their true hearts. Artists must look beneath the surface and… — Marvin Gaye Copy Share Image
Art is like singing. Some do it better than others, but everyone can and should be doing it for their soul. — Barbara Mason Copy Share Image
Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else's personality, that is not art. — Bennie Wallace Copy Share Image
Art is something you choose to make... it's a bringing together of... of everything around you into something that makes you more human, more… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowledge,… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Art is something in which you are never an expert at any point of time. It's something you hone all the time and something… — Mani Ratnam Copy Share Image
What joy there is in hearing yourself think, and to make that thinking into ink. — John Olsen Copy Share Image
The most important thing that everyone should bring to the dining experience is a certain generosity of spirit. Just remember that there are two… — John Olsen Copy Share Image
Really good mountain bikers are lousy judges of trail difficulty. We haven't a clue, we just ride. — John Olsen Copy Share Image
I think a single sentence by Van Gogh is better than the whole work of all the art critics and art historians put together. — John Olsen Copy Share Image
The important thing about Paris is not so much that one sees exciting work, but one meets people who feel that art is worth… — John Olsen 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
