“A great artist is never poor.” ~ Isak Dinesen | Amazon | YouTube
“Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.”
~ Theodore Dreiser | Project Gutenberg | YouTube
“An individual's ability to draw is... the ability to shift to a different-from-ordinary way of processing visual information - to shift from verbal, analytic processing to spatial, global processing.”
~ Betty Edwards | Amazon | YouTube | Official Website
~ Albert Einstein
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.”
“It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.”
~ Loren Eiseley | Amazon | YouTube
“The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.” Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims
“The first rule of writing is not to omit the thing you meant to say.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson | Internet Archive | YouTube
“lf l am not mistaken, the words “art” and “artist” did not exist during the Renaissance and before: there were simply architects, sculptors, and painters, practicing a trade.” On Being a Graphic Artist, 1953 (PDF)
~ M. C. Escher | Amazon | YouTube
“Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.”
~ Marsilio Ficino | Project Gutenberg- Translation of Plato's Crito to Latin | Internet Archive
“There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.”
~ Helen Frankenthaler | Amazon | YouTube
“For there is a way back from imagination to reality and that is – art.” ~ Sigmund Freud | Internet Archive
“In questions of science the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.” ~ Galileo as quoted in Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men (1859) by François Arago Internet Archive
“Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.”
~ André Gide | Amazon | YouTube
“Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.”
“I call architecture ‘petrified music’.”
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Internet Archive
“Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint.”
“Art must always remain earnest... Art must be serious, no sarcasm, comedy. One does not laugh at a loved one.
~ Arshile Gorky | Amazon | YouTube
“Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.”
“Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?”
"The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable."
~ Nadine Gordimer | Amazon | YouTube
“When I was a boy studying art I became aware of and accepted the difficulties of the modern artist. By the age of 18 I clearly understood that the artist in our society cannot expect to make a living from art; must live in the midst of a hostile environment; cannot communicate through his art with more than a few people; and if his work is significant, cannot achieve recognition until the end of his life, if he is lucky, and more likely posthumously.”
~ Adolph Gottlieb | Amazon | YouTube
“Art itself cannot be taught, but craftsmanship can. Architects, painters, sculptors are all craftsmen in the original sense of the word. Thus it is a fundamental requirement of all artistic creativity that every student undergo a thorough training in the workshops of all branches of the crafts.” As quoted in Paul Klee, 1879-1940 (2000) by w:Susanna Partsch, p. 47
~ Walter Gropius | Amazon | YouTube
March is Youth Art Month
