Maxioms Pet

X
  •   25  /  53  

    The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and
    music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their
    significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's
    uses.
    - Josiah Gilbert Holland (used pseudonym Timothy Titcomb),

    by Found in Art Quotes,
Share to:

You May Also Like   /   View all maxioms

  ( comments )
  33  /  27  

There is no must in art because art is free

There is no must in art because art is free

by Wassily Kandinsky Found in: Art Quotes,
Share to:
  ( comments )
  23  /  21  

There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made read more

There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.

  ( comments )
  19  /  20  

Art is what's left over after you've defined everything else

Art is what's left over after you've defined everything else

by Michael Vitale Found in: Art Quotes,
Share to:
  ( comments )
  56  /  40  

The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.

The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.

by Joan Miro Found in: Art Quotes,
Share to:
  ( comments )
  12  /  16  

In art, the obvious is a sin.

In art, the obvious is a sin.

by Edward Dmytryk Found in: Art Quotes,
Share to:
  ( comments )
  12  /  21  

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors

by Oscar Wilde Found in: Art Quotes,
Share to:
  ( comments )
  19  /  20  

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

by Albert Einstein Found in: Art Quotes,
Share to:
  ( comments )
  21  /  17  

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

  ( comments )
  15  /  21  

Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, read more

Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every abstract form, from all that is of the brain only.

by William Butler Yeats Found in: Art Quotes,
Share to:
Maxioms Web Pet