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Famous Art Quotes
“Artworks are the witnesses that explain the civilization to next generations.”
- E. G. Benite
“Art is not a game nor entertainment. Art is soul’s need to manifest.”
- E. G. Benite
“Güzel sanatlar; insanın elinin, kafasının ve kalbinin birlikte çalıştığı şeylerdir.”
- Francis Bacon
“You see things and wonder why, I dream of the non-existing and wonder why not.”
- Francis Bacon
“I foresee it and yet I hardly ever carry it out as I foresee it. It transforms itself by the actual paint. I don't in fact know very often what the paint will do, and it does many things which are very much better than I could make it do.”
- Francis Bacon
“Art is the bridge that leads us to God.”
- Georg Ebers
“Art and Science are long-lasting, life is short.
- Hippocrates
“Art and Science will migrate, if not appreciated.”
- Avicenna
“Any partnership in art is harmful.”
- John Heinrich Fussli
“Art helps us not to believe in our eyes.”
- Kari Kraus
“Like sun coloring the flowers, art colors our lives.”
- Lord Aubery
“You can be a deputy, a parliament member. You can even become the president but you can’t be an artist.”
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
“Artist don’t kiss hands, their hands are kissed.”
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
“Ignorance is the enemy of art.”
- Samuel Johnson
“Art is me, science is us.”
- Claude Bernard
“An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, a prisoner of style, a prisoner of reputation, or a prisoner of success.”
- Henri Matisse
“Art is the journey of a free soul.”
- Alev Oguz
“To be oneself is being neither under bond nor borrowed nor sold nor hired. To be, means to be spiritually free.”
- Theo van Doesburg
“When there is no freedom, there is no creativity.”
- Soud Qbeilat
“The only person you have to please, with your art, is yourself.”
- Don Getz
“Do not be intimidated by the experts. Trust your instincts. Do not be afraid to go against what you were taught, or what you were told to see or believe.”
- Blue Balliett
“Art is to be creative without any rules or limitations, it is somewhere where freedom can be found.”
- Salwa Zahid
“Rules serve no purpose; they can only do harm. Not only must the artist's mind be clear, it must also be free. His fancy should not be hindered and weighed down by a mechanical servility to such rules.”
- Federico Zuccaro
“When I am dead, let it be said of me: he belonged to no school, to no church, to no institution, to no academy, and least of all, to any regime except the regime of liberty.”
- Gustave Courbet
“Turn yourself into a madman and let yourself go wild with paint. Don't think about it, evaluate it, or judge it. Just paint.”
- Elizabeth Winter-Noyes
“The creator's eye is watching us and blessing all of our creativity and hopefully hiding from us our shortcomings, so that we are more free to really blast about the dirt yard with our compositions, our canvases, writing pens, singing a new anthem to the Universe, one that will proclaim that our artistry will save us, the planet, the people... Mankind is One, God is One... let us all agree at least on that.”
- Sonya Bennett
“If somebody else is making the rules for you, no matter how good the payoff is for you, you're being conned.”
- Jon Rappoport
“The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.”
- Stephen Nachmanovitch
“Each painting evolves freely and independently.”
- Fernando Araujo
“Real painters understand with a brush in their hand... what does anyone do with rules? Nothing worthwhile.”
- Berthe Moriset
“A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.”
- Francis Picabia
“We are painters first, artists always, and as such not bound by anything but our innate desire to create.”
- Mary Todd Beam
“If you must have a rule to follow, I would suggest cultivating a dialogue with your inner voice... If you listen to the clues your own images offer, the resulting work will be fresh, and authentic. Fall in love with your world…”
- Jane Fulton Alt
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