Art Quote by John Olsen Download Open image “Painting is a means of self-enlightenment.” — John Olsen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Enlightenment Mean Painting Self
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 is at once a form of meditation and an utter, complete personal engagement with life. — Steven Whitney Copy Share Image
Painting is self-discovery. You arrive at the image through the act of painting. — Adolph Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Painting is a form of incarnation. It is spirit made manifest in the world. — Jeffrey Smart Copy Share Image
Painting is a self-disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself. — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
Painting has to get back to its original goal, examining the inner lives of human beings. — Pierre Bonnard Copy Share Image
Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings — George Tooker Copy Share Image
Painting is the intermediate between a thought and a thing. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Something in me knows where I’m going, and - well, painting is a state of being. ... Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
What joy there is in hearing yourself think, and to make that thinking into ink. — John Olsen Copy Share Image
Art is not so much talent as character… it's what you are, the qualities of the person. — 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
