Words on Art

Art

Hillman Curtis:
- Be prepared to do the things that you feel strongly about that maybe other people don't, that maybe don't have an immediate source of income or revenue. ¶ | Art , Design
- Be prepared to go out on a limb occasionally. ¶ | Art , Design
- Be prepared to reinvent yourself. ¶ | Art , Design
- I don't think an artist does well without limitations. ¶ | Art , Design
Sacha Jafri:
- To stay young is impossible, but to keep the child within you forever is an achievable goal well worth pursuing at every cost. ¶ | Art
Madeleine L'Engle:
- Writing, or any other discipline of art, involves participation in suffering, in the ills and the occasional stabbing joys that come from being part of the human drama. ¶ | Art , Writing
C.S. Lewis:
- The first demand any work of art makes upon us is surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way ... ¶ | Art
Maya Lin:
- Art is and should be the act of an individual willing to say something new, something not quite familiar. It is that collection of those singular personal visions transformed from within the mind’s eye to the public. ¶ | Art
- My goal is to strip things down, not so that they become inhuman but so that you need just the right amount of words or shape to convey what you need to convey. ¶ | Art , Design
- The artist fights to retain the integrity of a work so that it remains a strong, clear vision. ¶ | Art
Kerry Livgren:
- Our culture has so redefined art that the word has become meaningless. ¶ | Art
Edouard Manet:
- One must be of one's time and paint what one sees. ¶ | Art , Painting
- The concise man makes one think; the verbose bores. ¶ | Art
- Conciseness in art is essential and a refinement. ¶ | Art
Henri Matisse:
- Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium. ¶ | Art