Art Quotes

"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood" "The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science" "Nature is the art of God" "Sunlight is painting" "Moonlight is sculpture" "Art is making something out of nothing and selling it" "If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me nothing to make my friends proud of my memory but I have lov'd the principle of beauty in all things and if I had had time I would have made myself remember'd" "The real risks for any artist are taken... in the work" "Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists" "Bring me all of your dreams you dreamer bring me all your heart melodies" "The image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy" "The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds" "Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to while we long to make music that will melt the stars" "The better a work is the more it attracts criticism" "Art is a collaboration between God and the artist and the less the artist does the better"