_Arts

But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art. - Iris Murdoch (1919-1999)

All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous. - Iris Murdoch (1919-1999)

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. - Iris Murdoch (1919-1999)

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. - Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. - Scott Adams (1957- )

Art is either plagiarism or revolution. - Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)

Land really is the best art. - Andy Warhol (1928-1987)

The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

History may clarify our understanding of the supreme work of art, but can never account for it completely; for the Time of art is not the same as the Time of history. - André Malraux (1901-1976)

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. - Tom Stoppard (1937- )

I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration. - Frida Kahlo (1907-1954)

If you like a pretty girl, it's because you know and pursue beauty. That means you're a potential artist. - An anonymous potential artist

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. - Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve. - François Cavanna (1923- )

Greek Ὁ βίος βραχύς, ἡ δὲ τέχνη μακρή, ὁ δὲ καιρὸς ὀξύς, ἡ δὲ πεῖρα σφαλερή, ἡ δὲ κρίσις χαλεπή. - Hippokratēs Life is short, art is long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgement difficult. - Hippocrates (460BC–370BC)

All art is an imitation of nature. - Seneca

Give me a museum and I'll fill it. - Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails? - Will Rogers (1879-1935), to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_de_Milo