[pxy]

from artcafe.tv, i happened to save them before the site died. in discussions on "what is art", i find they kinda say everything.

"Vision is where tomorrow begins, for it expresses what you and others who share the vision will be working hard to create. Since most people don't take the time to think systematically about the future, those who do - and who base their strategies and actions on their visions - have inordinate power to shape the future" - Burt Nanus
"Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives" - Vincent Canby
"I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it" - William Williams
"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after" - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"The best and most beautiful things in the world can't be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart" - Helen Keller
"Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it" - John Hersey
"When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life" - Christopher Morley
"Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen" - Leo Tolstoy
"Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers" - Voltaire
"We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes" - Emerson
"A painting [is] a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it" - Corita Kent
"The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the experts, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all possibilities" - Shunryu Suzuki
"Music and silence . . . combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music" - Marcel Marceau
"I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself isn't going to let you down" - Virgil Thomson
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious; it is the source of all true art and science" - Albert Einstein
"Try to keep the rebel artist alive in you, no matter how attractive or exhausting the temptation" - Norman Mailer
"Imagination isn't a talent of some men but is the health of every man" - Emerson
"Too many composers become involved in intellectual speculation which seems to matter more to them than the sound that comes out of all this speculation" - Louise Talma
"every child is an artist, the problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up" - pablo picasso
"I shut my eyes in order to see" - Paul Gauguin
"There are always two parties; the establishment and the movement" - Emerson
"Art ... can become the direct organisation of more highly evolved sensations" - Guy Debord
"Architecture is frozen music" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius" - Emerson
"It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way" - Ernest Hemingway
"The progress of an artist is a continual self sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality" - T.S. Elliot
"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world" - Albert Einstein
"If the doors of perception were cleansed. Everything would appear to man as it is - infinite. - William Blake
"All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life" - M. C. Richards
"I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to avoid verbalization whenever you can" - Virgil Thomson
"A poet has to adapt himself, more or less consciously,to the demands of his vocation, and hence the peculiarities of poets and the condition of inspiration which many people have said is near to madness� The problem of creative writing is essentially one of concentration� a focusing of the attention in a special way" - Stephen Spender
"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books" - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"The public should try to make itself artistic" - Oscar Wilde
"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads" - Erica Jong
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction" - Albert Einstein
"That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art" - John A. Locke
"Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade" - Benjamin Franklin
"Make art life, and life art, with no gulf between the artist and the people" - Rafael Alberti, "Alianza de Intelectuales"
"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant" - Horace
"The task which the artist implicitly sets himself, is to overthrow existing values, to make of the chaos about him an order which is his own, to sow strife and ferment, so that by the emotional release those who are dead may be restored to life" - Henry Miller
"It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do" - Emerson
"You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance" - Ray Bradbury
"Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life" - Joseph Conrad
"It isn't sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it" - Voltaire
"Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes, Art is knowing which ones to keep" - Scott Adams
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience" - George Bernard Shaw
"Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day. For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment" - Ernest Hemingway
"In an atmosphere of liberty, artists and patrons are free to think the unthinkable and create the audacious; they are free to make both horrendous mistakes and glorious celebrations" - Ronald Reagan
"The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word" - Mata Hari
"[The writer] must essentially draw from life as he sees it, lives it, overhears it or steals it, and the truer the writer, perhaps the bigger the blackguard. He lives by biting the hand that feeds him" - Jerome A. Jackson
"These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves" - Gilbert Highet
"In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people" - Marcel Marceau
"Poetry is the deification of reality" - Edith Sitwell
"There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns" - Edward de Bono
"You are great artists, but I tell you, the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more artistic than loving people" - van Gogh
"To be an artist is to believe in life. - Henry Moore
"Sight is a faculty; seeing is an art" - George P. Marsh
"Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway" - Eleanor Roosevelt
"How do poems grow? They grow out of your life" - Robert Penn Warren
"Be daring, be different, be impractical; be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. Routines have their purposes, but the merely routine is the hidden enemy of high art" - Cecil Beaton
"Imagination is the eye of the soul" - Joseph Joubert
"To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination" - Cynthia Ozick
"I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge" - Herman Wouk
"Art is an indecent exposure of the consciousness" - Sir Herbert Read
"I am a publisher - a hybrid creature: one part stargazer, one part gambler, one part businessman, one part midwife, and three parts optimist" - Cass Canfield
"When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution isn't beautiful, I know it is wrong" - R. Buckminster Fuller
"Any great work of art ... revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air" - Leonard Bernstein
"The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels" - Hazrat Inayat Khan
"There are 10,000 books in my library, and it will keep growing until I die. This has exasperated my daughters, amused my friends, and baffled my accountant. If I had not picked up this habit in the library long ago, I would have more money in the bank today; I would not be richer" - Pete Hamill
"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together" - Vincent Van Gogh
"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self" - Cyril Connolly
"The notes I handle no better than many pianists, But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides! - Arthur Schnabel
"There is one thing stronger than all the armies of the world, And that is an idea whose time has come" - Victor Hugo
"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep" - Scott Adams
"I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation isn't a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within" - Louise Nevelson
"Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen" - Leo Tolstoy
"We do not see things as they are but as we are" - Jewish Proverb
"Let each man exercise the art he knows" - Aristophanes
"Art is the lie that makes us realize the truth" - Pablo Picasso
"Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and others, is education" - Jiddu Krishnamurti
"Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them" - Albert Einstein
"The first hope of the painter who really feels hopeful about painting, is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame" - Gertrude Stein
"Art for me...is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society" - Emile Zola
"People only see what they are prepared to see" - Emerson
"I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success" - Ingrid Bergman
"Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions" - A. E. Housman
"The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the door of the spirit" - Sri Aurobindo
"Art is the triumph over chaos" - John Cheever
"The mission of the playwright . . . is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment, to write with passion and conviction. Of course the measure of the man will be the measure of the play" - Robert Anderson
"The art of communication is the language of leadership" - James Humes
"Art is either plagiarism or revolution" - Paul Gauguin
"Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it" - Emerson
"Musicians . . . own music because music owns them" - Virgil Thomson
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious" - Albert Einstein
"It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe" - Barry Lopez
"Genius is 1% inspiration & 99% perspiration" - Thomas Alva Edison
"The end (goal) of art is to figure the hidden meaning of things and not their appearance; for in this profound truth lies their true reality, which does not appear in their external outlines" - Joseph Conrad
"The great successful men of the world have used their imagination they think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - steadily building" - Robert Collier
"Creation is a drug I can't do without" - Cecil B. De Mille
"I never use a score when conducting my orchestra . . . Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how to tame a lion? - Dimitri Mitropoulos
"Music . . . can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable" - Leonard Bernstein
"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong" - Joseph Chilton Pearce
"Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety - nine per cent perspiration" - Thomas A. Edison
"Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you" - William Arthur Ward
"Without an integrated understanding of life, our individual and collective problems will only deepen and extend. The purpose of education isn't to produce mere scholars, technicians and job hunters, but integrated men and women who are free of fear; for only between such human beings can there be enduring peace" - J. Krishnamurti
"The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create" - David Mamet
"Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power" - Marcel Marceau
"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. You can quote them. Disagree with them. Glorify or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do" - Apple Computer Advertisement
"Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice" - Cyril Connolly
"Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind" - Maxwell Bodenheim
"what makes people the world over stand in line for van gogh isn't that they will see beautiful pictures but that in an indefinable way they will come away feeling better human beings. and that is exactly what he hoped for" - john russell
"Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see" - Paul Klee
"Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning" - Katherine Anne Porter
"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be" - Abraham Maslow
"The principal mark of genius isn't perfection, but originality. the opening of new frontiers" - Arthur Koestler
"Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance" - John Keats
"Art heightens the sense of humanity. It gives an elation to feeling which is supernatural...A million sunsets will not spur us on towards civilization. It requires Art to evoke into consciousness the finite perfections which lie ready for human achievement" - Alfred North Whitehead
"A producer is a saboteur who tries to infiltrate the passivity of viewers and to create impressions that are lasting" - Bill
"When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses" - JFK
"A born writer is born scrofulous; his career is an accident dictated by physical or circumstantial disabilities" - Dylan Thomas
"Some people see things as they are and say 'why'. I dream things that never were and say 'why not?' - George Bernard Shaw
"In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire" - Emerson
"What we play is life" - Louis Armstrong
"A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul" - Aldous Huxley
"All of the arts - music, dance, body movement, painting, drawing, design and architecture, sculpture, theater, writing prose or poetry, mythic ritual, and yes all of the highest and most aesthetic aspects of science, philosophy, and mathematics - can be passageways into the deepest and most remote aspects of who we really are" - Giuseppe Saitta
"Where there's liberty, art succeeds" - Ronald Reagan
"we don't have art, everything we do is art" - balinese saying
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams" - Eleanor Roosevelt
"We are the music makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams" - Arthur O'Shaughnessy
"All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music" - Walter Horatio Pater
"If we fail to nourish our souls, they wither, and without soul, life ceases to have meaning. The creative process shrivels in the absence of continual dialogue with the soul. And creativity is what makes life worth living" - Marion Woodman
"To the world you might be one person, But to one person you might be the world" - Unknown
"The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think" - Edwin Schlossberg
"What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement. Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life" - Neil Simon
"Music expresses that which can't be said and on which it is impossible to be silent" - Victor Hugo
"Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in" - Amy Lowell
"We can't learn without pain" - Aristotle
"Genius is simply childhood,rediscovered by an act of will" - Charles Baudelaire
"Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write" - Jean Anouilh
"The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel" - Piet Mondrian
"I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time" - Orson Welles
"The poem . . . is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem isn't a thing we see - it is, rather, a light by which we may see - and what we see is life" - Robert Penn Warren
"If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience" - John Cage
"We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to" - W. Somerset Maugham
"The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity" - Ashley Montague
"There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun" - Pablo Picasso
"The quicksilver of creativity will not be solidified by legal pronouncement; it will necessarily flow into new and sometimes frightening fields" - Matthew Tobriner
"When the guns roar, the arts die" - Arthur Miller
"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book" - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it" - Jesse Stuart
"Expressing your enthusiasm can add years of creative life to your time on earth" - Marsha Sinetar
"Art is the signature of civilizations" - Beverly Sills
"Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep" - Le Corbusier
"Art isn't pleasure or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life transmitting our reasonable perception into feeling" - Leo Tolstoy
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures" - Henry Ward Beecher
"The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited" - William Saroyan
"Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors" - Emerson
"I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none" - Ben Shahn
"Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is" - James Branch Cabell
"Art is a form of therapy. Sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear, which is inherent in the human situation" - Graham Greene
"I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line - a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it" - Marshall McLuhan
"The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal" - Elia Kazan
"Creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives... [and] when we are involved in it, we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life" - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
"In order to have a real relationship with our creativity, we must take the time and care to cultivate it" - Julia Cameron
"Artists and creative workers - people who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They haven't been contented with mediocrity. They haven't confined themselves to the beaten tracks; they have never been satisfied to do things just as others do them, but always a little better. Few are those who see with their own eyesand feel with their own hearts" - Albert Einstein
"Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the action stems the dream again; and this inter - dependence produces the highest form of living" - Anias Nin
"[James] Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can" - Samuel Beckett
"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place" - George Bernard Shaw
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night" - Edgar Allen Poe
"Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is fifty percent of the performance" - Shirley Booth
"A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects" - W.H. Auden
"Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius" - Henri Frederic Amiel
"Everything you can imagine is real" - Pablo Picasso
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music" - Aldous Huxley
"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better" - Emerson
"Art makes something a lot more visible or audible" - Paul Klee
"The universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man" - Orison Swett Marden
"The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude" - Erica Jong
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant" - Robert Louis Stevenson
"Everything that is really great and inspiringis created by the individual who can labour in freedom" - Albert Einstein
"Man�s main task in life is to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality" - Erich Fromm
"Society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him" - JFK
"How vain it is to sit down to write when you haven't stood up to live" - Henry David Thoreau
"To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding" - Anatole Broyard
"The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind" - Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up" - Pablo Picasso
"Let criticism motivate you" - Jan Ruhe
"If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Writing is a form of prayer" - Franz Kafka
"the secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm" - aldous huxley
"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience" - Oliver Wendell Holmes
"To the artist, there is never anything ugly in nature" - August Rodin
"As information becomes our environment, it becomes mandatory to program the environment itself as a work of art" - Marshall McLuhan
"There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen" - Sean O'Faolain
"Art should never try to be popular" - Edward Albee
"Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent" - Sophia Loren
"Rules and models destroy genius and art" - William Hazlitt
"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort" - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space" - Philip Johnson
"The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world, himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep" - Gilbert K. Chesterton
"The subject matter of art is life, life as it actually is; but the function of art is to make life better" - George Santayana
"The only limits are, as always, those of vision" - James Broughton
"Creativity means believing you have greatness" - Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance" - Will Durant
"A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us" - Emerson
"Ars Longa, Vita Brevis. Art Long, Life Short" - Hippocrates
"...Art itself may be defined as a single minded attempt to render the highest kind of justice to the visible universe, by bringing to light the truth, manifold and one, underlying its every aspect" - Stuart Davis
"I almost always urge people to write in the first person... Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it" - William Zinsser
"A talent for drama isn't a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships" - Gore Vidal
"For him who has perception, a mere sign is enough, For him who does not really heed, A thousand explanations are not enough" - Haji Bektash
"I function as a channel from which music emerges from the chaos of noise" - Vangelis
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter can't understand it when someone doesn't thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses their intelligence" - Albert Einstein
"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, the less the artist does, the better" - Andre Gide

hey! i add from other places.

"art is self reflection" - seas

"creativity is only paused, never killed" - ? 2004

"art has a purpose, reality does not - ?@sijun 2001

but i'd like to replace the "art" there with "music", because you can't lie with music.

"all art aspires towards music" - walter pater

...and here i resplace "art" with "all existance".

not remembered. oh:

"superstition is the poetry of life" - goethe
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[Heysoos]

cooooooool

All of painting, but also literature and all that goes with it, is merely
A process of going round and round something inexpressible,
Round a black hole or crater whose center one cannot penetrate,
And those things someone seizes as subject matter, they have merely
The character of pebbles at the foot of the crater�
They mark out a circle which one hopes,
Draws ever closer to the center."
-- Anselm Kiefer
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[jfrancis]

From the age of six I had a mania for drawing the shapes of things. When I was fifty I had published a universe of designs. but all I have done before the the age of seventy is not worth bothering with. At seventy five I'll have learned something of the pattern of nature, of animals, of plants, of trees, birds, fish and insects. When I am eighty you will see real progress. At ninety I shall have cut my way deeply into the mystery of life itself. At a hundred I shall be a marvelous artist. At a hundred and ten everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who are going to live as long as I do, I promise to keep my word. I am writing this in my old age. I used to call myself Hokosai, but today I sign my self 'The Old Man Mad About Drawing.'

-- Hokusai

[jfrancis]

If you knew how hard I worked for my mastery, you wouldn�t be so impressed.

-- Michaelangelo

[watmough]

i love that Hokusai quote,i have read it soooo many times...

[gLitterbug]

That Michelangelo quote is probably the most true one there is. People always say "I could never do that" when they look at a drawing or painting. They think its magic. Most don�t believe it has anything to do with practice, study and work.

[Matthew]

"the Sun is God"

--William Turner

[gLitterbug]

Maybe it is only me that fails to realize, but how exactly is that an art quote Matthew?

[Matthew]

It has everything to do with art. This is something Turner said on his death bed after a long life discovery with his studies and devotion to art.
No painting without the sun, right?

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[Max]

There will never be a good definition of art because people's mind about art changes everyday. Go back 500 years and look at a picasso...you would say that its anything but art.
Go to the year 2500...well I got no clue what art will be then...
Today everything is art, really, it doens't make any difference to me if something is art or not. I can't use the word "art" the value anything anymore because there's "art" out there which I love and stuff wich I hate.
Everything is art. Nothing is art.
Art is like music. Something is music but that doesn't mean its good or bad. If you say somthing is "art" you value, you say its good. That's the problem...

[gLitterbug]

Well yes and no Matthew. I mean if you say it like that I can say "No life without the sun." As valid and true as it might be it�s just too general to be of any worth to me.

What max said is pretty much how I feel too. Art is not a term I like to use, caus it has no real meaning. I sometimes use the word out of lack of a better one or lazyness, but I much rather not.
No matter how you define the word art, it will probably include so much stuff you can�t use it if you want to actually describe something. One man's art is the other man's trash.

[Heysoos]

considering Turner spent his life reveling in the mysteries of light with his paintings, I think that quote is very connected to his artwork.

"I did not paint it to be understood, I painted it to be experienced"
Turner
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[pxy]

[balistic]

"Make-ah the boobs-ah little-ah big-ah." - Leon, the old Italian guy in my figure drawing class
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[Nimr0d]

A line is a dot out for a stroll.

-- Paul Klee
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