Art Quote by Michael Leunig Download Open image “The most joyous painting is not done for the art world, it is done for the inner world.” — Michael Leunig ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Art world Done Inner world Joyous Painting World
There is an aesthetic excitement about painting which is one of the most beautiful experiences that can be. Put things down while you feel… — Charles Webster Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I cannot see that art is anything less than a way of making joys perpetual. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Painting is the most beautiful of all arts. In it, all sensations are condensed; contemplating it, everyone can create a story at the will… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
I know the world that I am painting is not a reality. It is a whim, an entertainment to provoke something in people, whether… — Tim Walker Copy Share Image
I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
Painting is the most beautiful of all arts. In it, all sensations are condensed, at its aspect everyone may create romance at the will… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Some sort of pressure must exist; the artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect,… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
No painting can exist without the tension of what it figures and what it concretely consists of. The pleasure of what it could mean… — Marlene Dumas Copy Share Image
An intrinsic part of the whole delicious, exuberant fun, and joy of painting consists in simply not having to bother about making a mess,… — Mervyn Levy Copy Share Image
In my journey as a cartoonist, I seem to have accidentally stumbled into all sorts of traps, damnations and blacklists. — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
There are only two feelings, Love and fear: There are only two languages, Love and fear: There are only two activities, Love and fear:… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and meaning by the dreary… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Socialised humanity represses nature and degrades human nature; it takes life and waters it down - probably to control it - diluting existence with… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
I became a cartoonist because I'd sort of failed at everything else, really. I mean, it was by default. — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
I never really understood who the Magi were as a child. What is a Magi? Not a word I would use, but a magpie… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
God bless this tiny little boat, And me who travels in it. It stays afloat for years and years, And sinks within a minute.… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
There can be many reasons to travel, but wandering into the world for no particular reason is a sublime madness, which in all its… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Life seems sadly mishandled by humans, as if it's all too much for them - they spend so much time and energy hurting each… — Michael Leunig 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
