Art Quote by Mike Svob Download Open image “All artists are illusionists of one kind or another.” — Mike Svob ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Illusionists Kind
Artists are... stubborn egomaniacs who are mysteriously - and sometimes correctly - certain that the world needs to know all about the figments of… — Jon Pareles Copy Share Image
“Artists are dishonest creatures really. They foist their version of reality upon us while making it all up. Writers, painters, musicians, auteurs—they’re all the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most artists are surrealists. ... always dreaming something and then they paint it. — Dong Kingman Copy Share Image
Artists are people who are not at all interested in the facts - only in the truth. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
There are different kinds of artists: the ones that inspire you, and the ones that overwhelm you. — Thomas Mars Copy Share Image
I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and humility, constantly… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
One could say that artists are people who think naturally in highly patterned ways. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
The person viewing your work has no idea what the scene really looked like, nor do they care. — Mike Svob Copy Share Image
The theme, or harmony, of a painting can be created by any one of its visual elements. A single colour... repetition of shapes... Light… — Mike Svob Copy Share Image
Think of the centre of interest in a painting as you would read it in a novel or see it in a movie. The… — Mike Svob Copy Share Image
Put a symbol, or language of some sort, in a painting and it will be noticed by the viewer whether or not they can… — Mike Svob Copy Share Image
The wide open nature of any truly creative artistic endeavor is one of its most important virtues, and one of its harshest realities. Only… — Mike Svob Copy Share Image
You have to understand how the human eye behaves when it views a scene for the first time. Work with that knowledge, and your… — Mike Svob Copy Share Image
When we look at a painting, listen to a piece of music, read a novel, or watch a movie we are taking in the… — Mike Svob Copy Share Image
A painting with a message does not happen by accident. It happens when you place elements in their order of importance. — Mike Svob Copy Share Image
By merely increasing or decreasing the amount of contrast in any area we can move the observer through the painting. — Mike Svob Copy Share Image
All paintings are abstract ideas, not representations of a true reality. — Mike Svob Copy Share Image
Being true to oneself more often leads one toward success rather than away from it. — Mike Svob Copy Share Image
Realistically there is no limit to the possibilities. How does an artist make decisions? — Mike Svob 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 water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
“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 who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share
“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
