900 Best Sketch Art Quotes And Captions For Instagram (2023)
1. “The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.” — Leonardo da Vinci
2. “A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.” — Salvador Dali
3. “The beauty of the landscape – where sand, water, reeds, birds, buildings, and people all somehow flowed together – has never left me.” – Zaha Hadid
4. “Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.” — Marc Chagall
5. “We don’t inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.”
6. “Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.”
7. “The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live only as you can.” – Neil Gaiman
8. “To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.” – Jane Austen
9. “Art is power. It can influence perception, opinion and values. And the artist who creates uses his paintbrush to focus on a moment in time…recording those things that touch the heart.” – Nina Baldwin
10. “Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature.” – Steve Maraboli
11. “The earth laughs in flowers.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
12. “See feel draw: One verb.” – Jandy Nelson, I’ll Give You the Sun
13. “Rich with the spoils of nature.” – Thomas Browne
14. “Keep close to nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.” – John Muir
15. “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” – Thomas Merton.
16. Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
17. All nature is but art unknown to thee. Alexander Pope
18. “Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second nature in a married man.” ~ Helen Rowland
19. “Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”
20. “Art is either revolution or plagiarism.”
21. “The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” – Mark Twain
22. “Kintsugi is a form of art embodying “Wabi Sabi” which is a word to appreciate Japanese aesthetic sensibilities. (Wabi Sabi which represents “beauty within simplicity and imperfection”) “Nothing lasts forever, nothing is complete, nothing is perfect. Your scar is important part of your life and is a part of you. It is a living history, never look scars as negative, instead take it as positive.” – Shawzi Tsukanoto
23. Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work. — Seth Godin
24. “It is wise to learn; it is God-like to create.” – John Saxe
25. “Making bad art is better than making no art. Go make something.” — Unknown
26. “Another word for creativity is courage.”- Henri Matisse.
27. “Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.” Octavia Butler
28. “Let silence be the art you practice.”
29. “When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.” – Bill Watterson
30. “To create one’s own world takes courage.” – Georgia O’Keeffe
31. “The problem is we’re looking for something that doesn’t exist. We’re looking for authenticity. There is no such thing as authenticity. There is either good art or bad art. Art is never about its content. It’s about its scaffolding.” – Chris Abani
32. “The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.” — Alberto Giacometti
33. “I could certainly never mirror nature. I would more like to paint what it leaves with me.”- Joan Mitchell
34. “If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson.” – Oscar Wilde
35. Nature is the art of God. Dante Alighieri
36. “Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.” – Ben Shneiderman
37. The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
38. “I would like to paint the way a bird sings.” — Claude Monet
39. “Thou art as fat as butter.”
40. “Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.” – Blaise Pascal
41. The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.
42. “Art is when you hear a knocking from your soul and you answer.” — Terri Guillemets
43. “Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.” – René Magritte
44. “Master the art of observing.” – Unknown
45. “A change in scenery can help everything.”
46. “The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.” – Alfred North Whitehead
47. “It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” —Albert Einstein
48. “Being an artist is the same as being a wizard… only instead of a wand, you use a pencil for your magic.”
49. “There’s a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.” – Oscar Levant
50. “It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression & knowledge.” ― Albert Einstein
51. The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious – the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Albert Einstein
52. “It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” Albert Einstein
53. “Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.” — Andy Warhol
54. “ I like to imagine that flash of the setting sun as it hits the horizon is the spark that lights the stars.” – We Dream of Travel
55. “They couldn’t find the artist so they hung the picture.” – Frank Zappa
56. “Everything is so beautiful and so short.” -Marina Keegan
57. “A work of art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t art at all.” – Paul Cézanne
58. “All art, like all love, is rooted in heartache.”
59. “Know that you get second chances so that you may change the art of your interaction, not so that others might finally treat you with the loving respect you deserve (and you do deserve loving respect).”
60. “Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.” — Bell Hooks
61. “Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is a painting that is felt rather than seen.” — Leonardo da Vinci
62. “What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.” – Octavio Paz
63. “The earth is what we all have in common.” – Wendell Berry
64. You need to learn the rules before you can break them
65. Use emojis and have fun with them.
66. “It is hard to separate the art from the artist.”
67. “You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” – Ansel Adams
68. Vincent Van Gogh is undoubtedly remembered as disturbed. Perhaps he was a bit demented, but there is no doubt that he could interpret beauty in a way that all of us can appreciate. His Starry Night is still one of the most popular pieces of art in history, and will be forever.
69. “If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.” – Marc Chagall
70. “Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers… What we call art is a game.” – Octavio Paz
71. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower
72. “Tranquility, serenity, and beauty of nature taught me how to find happiness in life and in the silence of eternity.” – Debasish Mridha.
73. “If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.”- Salvador Dalí
74. “Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.” Socrates
75. “In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising?” – Sarah Jessica Parker
76. The art of love is largely the art of persistence. — Albert Ellis
77. “Nurse’s Prayer: Let me dedicate my life today to care for those who come my way. Let me touch each one with a healing hand and the gentle art for which I stand. And then tonight when the day is done, let me rest in peace if I’ve helped just one.”
78. “To practice any art, no matter how well or how badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. So do it.” – Kurt Vonnegut
79. “One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.” –Leonardo da Vinci
80. To create, one must first question everything.
81. “Colour is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.” — Claude Monet
82. “The gold veins on the cover represent the Japanese art of kintsugi, “golden repair,” in which pieces of broken pottery are mended with powdered gold and lacquer, rather than treating the breaks as blemishes to conceal. The technique shows us that although an object cannot be returned to its original state, fragments can be made whole again.”
83. “Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.” – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
84. “There’s something romantic in preservation at a moment of static bliss.” -Marina Keegan
85. “Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.” — Meister Johann Eckhart
86. The art of listening comes from a quiet mind and an open heart.
87. “A work of art doesn’t have to be explained.”- Louis Bourgeois
88. “I paint for myself. I don’t know how to do anything else, anyway. Also, I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.” – Francis Bacon
89. The course of Nature is the art of God. Edward Young
90. “The art of love is largely the art of persistence.” —Albert Ellis
91. “In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.” – Alice Walker
92. “Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”
93. “Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.”
94. “Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.” – John Burroughs
95. “I don’t paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.” Frida Kahlo
96. The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint.
97. “I don’t paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.”
98. “Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.” – Gretel Ehrlich
99. “The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings. ”
100. The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.
101. “There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.” – Paul Cezanne
102. “The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.” – Blaise Pascal
103. “A reasoning being would lose his reason, in attempting to account for the great phenomena of nature.” – George Washington
104. “There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.” — Pablo Picasso
105. “Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.” — Socrates
106. “I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.” ― Frida Kahlo
107. “Land really is the best art.” – Andy Warhol
108. “A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.” – James Russell Lowell
109. “Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.” — Twyla Tharp
110. Let silence be the art you practice.” – Rumi
111. The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.
112. “Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.” ―Louis de Bernières
113. “Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.” – Stella Adler
114. “The Japanese art form of kintsugi repairs broken and flawed pottery with gold, silver or platinum. It doesn’t hide the cracks, but embraces it, seeing it as integral to the object’s history, and rebuilds something new.” – Sidhanta Patnaik, The Fire Burns Blue: A History of Women’s Cricket in India
115. Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.
116. Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.
117. “Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” – Lao Tzu
118. “There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.”- Billy Sunday
119. “Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.” – John Ruskin
120. “A picture is a poem without words”
121. “Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.” – Gerard De Nerval
122. “Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.” ~ Bell Hooks
123. Cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.
124. “The environment, after all, is where we all meet, where we all have a mutual interest. It is one thing that all of us share. It is not only a mirror of ourselves, but a focusing lens on what we can become.” – Lady Bird Johnson
125. Remember, the work of art lives in the experience, the journey within the process, not in the resulting monument to be presented in a certified art-place. – Eric Booth
126. “I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.” – Anne Frank
127. “A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.”- Paul Klee
128. “I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for.” – Georgia O’Keeffe
129. “Every good painter paints what he is.” – Jackson Pollock
130. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to.
131. All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
132. “I would like to paint as the bird sings.”- Claude Monet
133. “Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
134. “Never, no, never did nature say one thing and wisdom another.” – Edmund Burke
135. “Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.” – Issac Newton
136. “Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.”
137. “A work of art was once a work in progress.” – Adele Leon
138. “Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.” – Edward Albee
139. “Art is not a thing, it is a way.” – Elbert Hubbard
140. “Good artists copy, great artists steal.” – Pablo Picasso
141. The purpose of art is a mystery.
142. ” Art is the journey of a free soul.”
143. Pitching is the art of instilling fear. – Sandy Koufax
144. “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
145. The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.
146. “A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle.” — Robert Henri
147. "Only art and music have the power to bring peace.” — Yoko Ono
148. “Kintsugi: The ancient Japanese art of mending broken objects with gold teaches us that if we choose to embrace our struggles and repair ourselves with love. We become more beautiful for having been broken.”
149. “An artist never really finishes his work; he merely abandons it.” — Paul Valery
150. “National parks and reserves are an integral aspect of intelligent use of natural resources. It is the course of wisdom to set aside an ample portion of our natural resources as national parks and reserves, thus ensuring that future generations may know the majesty of the earth as we know it today.” – John F. Kennedy
151. “There is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing.” – Sir Rannulph Fiennes
152. “Patience is the art of hoping.” – Luc de Clapiers
153. “Good art is not what it looks like but what it does to us.” — Roy Adzak
154. “If you hear a voice within you saying, ”You are not a painter,” then by all means paint… and that voice will be silenced.”― Vincent van Gogh
155. “The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.” – D. H. Lawrence
156. “Whoever wants to know something about me, they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.”
157. “Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. ” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
158. “You can’t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club.” – Jack London
159. “The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss. ” – Rebecca Solnit
160. “Winter is my favorite time of year. Everything I’m allergic to is dead.” – Robert Waldo Brunelle Jr.
161. “The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live.” – Auguste Rodin
162. “An artist is a sort of emotional or spiritual historian. His role is to make you realize the doom and glory of knowing who you are and what you are.” – James Baldwin
163. “The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” – Mark Van Doren
164. “If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.” – Albrecht Dürer
165. “One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.” – Frank Stella
166. “Every artist was first an amateur” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
167. “May the petals teach me the art of letting go.” — Xan Oku
168. “It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.”
169. “The great thing about reaching the top of the mountain is realizing that there’s space for more than one person. And you’re now in the prime position to help others up.” – We Dream of Travel
170. “Just like the art of Kintsugi, he knew the art of fixing up broken people with the lacquer of his golden words.”
171. “I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.” – David Attenborough
172. Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” – Aristotle
173. “What I do as an art form is try to make people feel good and if I do try to make them feel bad, it's for a reason. There's something I am trying to say.”
174. This is a very understated way of congratulating someone who just had their music, writing, or art recognized for the first time.
175. “Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
176. “The art of multitasking must become a habit to be enjoyed and nothing else.”
177. “I am seeking. I am striving. I am in it with all my heart.” – Vincent van Gogh
178. “Simplify, slow down, be kind. And don’t forget to have art in your life – music, paintings, theater, dance, and sunsets.” — Eric Carle
179. I feel most alive when I’m neck-deep in my craft
180. Pitching is the art of instilling fear. Sandy Koufax
181. To draw you must close your eyes and sing.
182. colorful butterfly art says enjoy every moment.
183. Rainbow Baby: Celebrate your baby after loss with this rainbow themed chalk art and due date.
184. “It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.” – Sir David Attenborough
185. “I will be an artist or nothing!”
186. “Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion, it is not the desire to mate every second minute of the day, it is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every cranny of your body. No, don’t blush, I am telling you some truths. That is just being ‘in love’, which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two.”
187. “Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.”― Salvador Dali
188. “When I say artist I mean the man who is building things, some with a brush – some with a shovel – some choose a pen.” – Jackson Pollock
189. “It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” – Albert Einstein
190. Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. —General Dwight Eisenhower
191. “I know change can be scary. One minute, you are playing freeze tag out there at recess with all your buddies. Next thing you know, you’re getting zits, your voice gets low. And every time your art teacher, Ms. Scanlon, leans over your desk to check and see how your project’s going, you feel all squiggly inside.” -Ted Lasso
192. “I love that moment in a hike when you snap to and suddenly realize for the last 10 minutes you’ve not been observing nature but have instead become a part of it.” – We Dream of Travel
193. The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
194. “Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.” – Edgar Degas
195. “Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”
196. “If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence, we could rise up rooted like trees.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
197. “Nature to be commanded must be obeyed.” – Francis Bacon
198. “Everything you can imagine is real.”
199. “Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.” – Donatella Versace
200. “To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.”
201. “The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it…” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
202. ”Emo always meant emotional. Any kind of art or music should be emotional. If its not, then it’s pretty much just a jingle selling bleach or pizza.”
203. “If we’re all saying that rap is an art form, then we gotta be more responsible for our lyrics. If you see everybody dying because of what you’re saying, it don’t matter that you didn’t make them die, it just matters that you didn’t save them.”
204. “Ask kin-tsugi, the Japanese art of "golden joinery," in which a broken bowl is fixed and seamed with glow, cracks to the forefront, filled in by gold, rendering the repaired thing more remarkable, honoring its shatter. The result is neither broken nor unbroken, but both at once, shadow, object, corona around an eclipsed sun.
205. The true art of memory is the art of attention.- Samuel Johnson
206. “Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.” – Edward Abbey
207. “But failure has to be an option in art and in exploration–because it’s a leap of faith. And no important endeavor that required innovation was done without risk. You have to be willing to take those risks.” –James Cameron
208. “Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you’re passionate about something, then you’re more willing to take risks.” – Yo-Yo Ma
209. “To save wildlife and wild places the traction has to come not from the regurgitation of bad news data but from the poets, prophets, preachers, professors, and presidents who have always dared to inspire.” – J Drew Lanham
210. “In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
211. “Between every two pines there is a doorway to a new world.” – John Muir
212. Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
213. “The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.” – Zeno
214. “If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.” – Edward Hopper
215. “There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.”
216. “It’s not just the iconic mountains and parks that we protect. It’s the forests where generations of families have hiked and picnicked and connected with nature.” – Barack Obama
217. “Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.” – Gary Snyder
218. “Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.” ― Salvador Dali
219. “Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.” – Theodore Roethke
220. “When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.” – Agnes Martin
221. “Art is the stored honey of the human soul.” – Theodore Dreiser
222. The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
223. “It’s sad that we live in a world that doesn’t value insanity.” — Unknown
224. “I’m just a simple guy. I love beer, sex, and hockey. I hate liars, Sting, and art that doesn’t have people in it.” – Luke Almeida
225. "The art of a sincere and heartfelt apology is one of the greatest skills you will ever learn.”― Jeanette LeBlanc
226. “Whoever wants to know something about me, they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognize what I am and what I want.”― Gustav Klimt
227. It’s sad that we live in a world that doesn’t value insanity
228. “I paint the spirit and soul of what I see”
229. “Nature: where you can get away from everyone, except yourself.” – Melanie White
230. The world revolves because of creative people
231. Faith is the art of holding on to things despite your changing moods and circumstances.
232. “We’re constantly shown the “real world” on our screens but we come face to face with the real world out on the trail.” – We Dream of Travel
233. “In his TedX Talk, Gary Lewandowski explains the concept of kintsugi. It refers to a Japanese art form in which broken pottery is put back together using precious metals like gold and silver. The repair pottery is often more beautiful than it was before it was damaged. Lewandowski encourages us to see heartbreak as art break. It’s also a philosophy which treats damage and its repairs as an opportunity - something to take advantage of, not to conceal.”
234. “One learns first of all in beach living the art of shredding; how little one can get along with, not how much.” — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
235. “Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.” — Stella Adler
236. “The artist’s world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.” – Paul Strand
237. “Some artists not only have good music but good personalities as well. I don’t wanna brag about myself, but people have told me that my personality matches my music—as in it has quality, as in it’s genuine and it’s real. With me, people don’t have to separate the art from the artist. Knock on wood.”
238. “I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone because I am the person I know best.”
239. Ask Questions & Place CTAs
240. Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. - Socrates
241. “Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.” – Pablo Picasso
242. “Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.” – Maya Angelou
243. “An understanding of the natural world is a source of not only great curiosity, but great fulfillment.” – David Attenborough
244. “It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”– Albert Einstein
245. Limit yourself to 3-4 hashtags
246. “So much was lost - names, faces, ages, ethnic identities - that African Americans must do what no other ethnic group writ large must do: take a completely shattered vessel and piece it together, knowing that some pieces will never be recovered. This is not quite as harrowing or hopeless as it might sound I liken it to the Japanese art of kintsugi, repairing broken vessels using gold. The scars of the object are not concealed, but highlighted and embraced, thus giving them their own dignity and power. The brokenness and its subsequent repair are a recognized part of the story of the journey of the vessel, not to be obscured, and change, transition, and transformation are seen as important as honoring the original structure and its traditional meaning and beauty.”
247. “Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.” — Pablo Picasso
248. “The art of love…is largely the art of persistence.” – Albert Ellis, Psychologist
249. “Be kind to others. so that you may learn the secret art of being kind to yourself.” — Paramahansa Yogananda
250. “The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.” – Bernard Baruch
251. “Art is as natural as sunshine and as vital as nourishment.” — MaryAnn F. Kohl
252. “The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.” – William Hazlitt
253. “The beauty of the natural world lies in the details.” – Natalie Angier
254. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” -Helen Keller
255. “I think Nature’s imagination is so much greater than man’s, she’s never gonna let us relax!” – Richard Phillip Feynman
256. “Men argue. Nature acts.” – Voltaire
257. “If you want to live an authentic, meaningful life, you need to master the art of disappointing and upsetting others, hurting feelings, and living with the reality that some people just won’t like you. It may not be easy, but it’s essential if you want your life to reflect your deepest desires, values, and needs. ” – Cheryl Richardson
258. “I believe in God, only I spell it N.A.T.U.R.E.” – Frank Lloyd Wright
259. All I want to do is knit without being interrupted
260. “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 sun”.
261. “Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.” – Charles Lindbergh
262. If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces.
263. “A person who is truly cool is a work of art. And remember the original works of art cost exponentially higher than imitations. Just take a look at the coolest people in history. They will always be a part of history for being extremely original individuals. not imitations.” – Suzy Kassem
264. “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”
265. To create one’s own world takes courage.
266. Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. -Paul Valery
267. “Keep your face toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you.” -Walt Whitman
268. Warhol appreciates the original art form.
269. Cooking is the art that allows you to feed yourself and others.
270. “Kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing cracked pottery with gold, and knowing that the brokeness can make an object even more beautiful.”
271. “All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. ”― Henry Havelock Ellis
272. “We might be hollow but we’re brave.” -Lorde
273. “Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you’re scared to death.” – Earl Wilson
274. “Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.” – Alfred North Whitehead
275. “I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.” – Paulo Coelho
276. “There’s that old cliche that art is never finished, only abandoned. That’s the nice thing about comics. It forces you to abandon it long before maybe you’re ready to let it go.” — Jonathan Hickman
277. “If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.” – Vincent Van Gogh
278. “The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless.” – Salvador Dalí
279. “Choose only one master – nature.” – Rembrandt
280. “Let each man exercise the art he knows.” — Aristophanes
281. “I think that one’s art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.” – Emily Carr
282. “By discovering nature, you discover yourself.” – Maxime Lagacé
283. “The essence of all beautiful art is gratitude.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
284. “Does distance really matter? You love your favorite actor, drool for your favorite singer and await patiently for the next art from your favorite artist or writer. Why not the one you love?”
285. “An artist’s career always begins tomorrow.” – James Whistler
286. “The art of love is largely the art of persistence.”
287. “The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.” – Galileo
288. “Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.” – Carl Sagan
289. “Kintsugi, the art of beautiful imperfection.”
290. The art is not one of forgetting but letting go.
291. “What a funny world we live in when we won’t turn our phones off but we get excited to see we’ve ventured far enough into nature to lose service.”– We Dream of Travel
292. To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.”
293. “There is no must in art because art is free” – Wassily Kandinsky.
294. “Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.” ~ Martin Amis
295. “Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.” – Rumi
296. “I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.” – Henry David Thoreau
297. “The art of a sincere and heartfelt apology is one of the greatest skills you will ever learn.” – Jeanette LeBlanc
298. What the art world has done, it has been constantly been pushing the boundaries about what art can be. It's like expanding its territory. - Author: Tom Rachman
299. Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.” – Octavia Butler
300. “Kintsugi, the Japanese art of embracing the imperfect and loving your flaws.”
301. “The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.”― Eric Gill
302. “Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.” – Andy Warhol
303. "Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over."— Octavia Butler
304. “The Amen of nature is always a flower.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
305. “It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”
306. Front-load the most important information
307. “The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.” — Paul Strand
308. “Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.”
309. “When I have a creative block, I take walks. I like to see what shapes stick out – so many legs rushing by at once, it can seem abstract. I don’t need to see great art to get stirred up. Music does that for me more easily.” — Caio Fonseca
310. “Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.” – Twyla Tharp
311. Hippocrates, ancient Greek physician: “Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.”
312. “To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.” – Auguste Rodin
313. The great artist is the simplifier.
314. “To know how to grow old is the masterwork of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.” — Henri Frederic Amiel
315. “On Earth, there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.” – Jules Renard
316. Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.” – Hippocrates
317. “Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight”
318. “Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defenses, it also opens us to healing potentialities that transcend intellectual games and ego-preserving strategies.”
319. “Success is a worn down pencil.”― Robert Rauschenberg
320. “Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
321. “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” – Dr. Seuss
322. The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.
323. “If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery. It wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all.”― Michelangelo
324. “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” — Scott Adams
325. “It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
326. “I love not Man the less, but Nature more.” – Lord Byron
327. Write several drafts first
328. “Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.”
329. “I can’t remember a time when I was not fascinated by nature. I would say that nearly all children find wildlife interesting. You only have to show a child a snail or a spider to see that he or she is captivated by it. So of those that lose that interest with the onset of adulthood, I can only ask: ‘How on earth did you let it happen?’” – David Attenborough
330. Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
331. “Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.”-Salvador Dalí
332. “Nature is the art of God.” – Dante Alighieri
333. “It is important to express oneself…provided the feelings are real and are taken from you own experience.” – Berthe Morisot
334. “Pretending to do something when you're doing nothing is an art form in itself.”
335. “Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.” – Al Hirschfeld
336. “Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.” – Khalil Gibran
337. “Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that’s easy. What’s hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.” – Charles Mingus
338. “When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.” – Pablo Picasso
339. “The chief enemy of creativity is ‘good’ sense.” – Pablo Picasso
340. “He who works with his hands is a labourer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.”― Saint Francis of Assisi
341. When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
342. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” –Dwight D. Eisenhower
343. “Routine kills creative thought.” — Scarlett Thomas
344. “Talent never guarantees the success, its the art of success which can leads you to the sky”― Dr. Zeeshan Ahmed
345. “Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” – Edgar Degas
346. “Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.” – Earl Nightingale
347. “Every child is an artist; the problem is staying an artist when you grow up” – Pablo Picasso
348. “Art is an experience not an object.”
349. “Art is my life and my life is art”
350. “Art is neither a profession nor a hobby. Art is a way of being”
351. “Kintsugi is the Japanese art of mending broken objects using gold of silver epoxy. The Japanese believe that when something has suffered damage and has a history, it becomes more beautiful.”
352. "The art of listening comes from a quiet mind and an open heart.” – Ram Dass
353. “Every child is an artist”
354. “I invent nothing, I rediscover.” – Auguste Rodin
355. “The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.” —Kakuzō Okakura, The Book of Tea
356. As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress. Each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward. — Vincent van Gogh
357. It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. Albert Einstein
358. The beautiful souls of the world have an art of saintly alchemy, by which bitterness is converted into kindness, the gall of human experience into gentleness, ingratitude into benefits, insults into pardon.
359. “People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish… but that’s only if it’s done properly.”
360. “Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.” – Henry van Dyke
361. “I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say, ‘he feels deeply, he feels tenderly.” – Vincent Van Gogh
362. “Design has to work. Art does not.” — Donald Judd
363. “Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”― Pablo Picasso
364. “Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.” – Leonardo da Vinci
365. “The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” — Aristotle
366. “Rely upon yourself. Teach yourself. Accompany yourself. Have talks with yourself. Scold yourself. Commiserate with yourself. Work with yourself. Create art yourself. Inspire yourself. Take long walks with yourself. See yourself. Know yourself. Seek no other human in this world.” – Kapil Gupta
367. “if you want to live an authentic, meaningful life, you need to master the art of disappointing and upsetting others, hurting feelings, and living with the reality that some people just won’t like you. It may not be easy, but it’s essential if you want your life to reflect your deepest desires, values, and needs.”
368. “The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.”― Leonardo da Vinci
369. “The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.” — Paul Cezanne
370. “Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.” – Ashley Smith
371. “Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
372. The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes. — Tony Blair
373. “A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
374. “The earth has music for those who listen.” – William Shakespeare
375. ” I dream my painting and I paint my dream”
376. “Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
377. “All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.” ― Henry Havelock Ellis
378. “I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.” – David Rockefeller
379. “I found I could say things with colour and shapes that I couldn't say any other way--things I had no words for.” — Georgia O'Keeffe
380. “The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
381. “Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday and avoiding today.”
382. Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. —Dwight D. Eisenhower
383. “Now I see the secret of making the best person, it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.” – Walt Whitman
384. “Sunset has a way of stopping everything else for one fleeting moment.” – We Dream of Travel
385. When you finally master the art of nature, you begin to see that mathematical formulas that make the world turn. We can begin to widen the circle that is around us and bring more people toward us, making everyone a bit more fulfilled. Hopefully all the circles will overlap somewhere.
386. “The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.” — Anatole France
387. “Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn’t really have a judgement in its purest form.” – K.D. Lang
388. “Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.”
389. “Art should be something that liberates your soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further.” – Keith Haring
390. “The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.” — Michelangelo
391. “The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” Mark Van Doren
392. “There’s a whole world out there, right outside your window. You’d be a fool to miss it.” – Charlotte Eriksson
393. “Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.” – Salvador Dali
394. “Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.” – Ray Bradbury
395. “When I paint, I never think of selling. People fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves as we strive for greater heights.”― Edvard Munch
396. “Learn the rules like a pro so you can break them like an artist.” – Pablo Picasso
397. “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” – Pablo Picasso
398. “The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.” - Elaine Heffner
399. Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over. -Octavia Butler
400. “It is only when you have mastered the art of loving yourself that you can truly love others. It’s only when you have opened your own heart that you can touch the hearts of others” – Robin Sharma; The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
401. “The sky is the ultimate art gallery just above us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
402. “What moves men of genius, or rather what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.” – Eugene Delacroix
403. All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.” – Havelock Ellis
404. “Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.” – Cecil B. DeMille
405. “If you hear a voice within you say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced” – Vincent Van Gogh
406. “I paint myself because I am alone. I paint myself because I am the subject I know best.”- Frida Kahlo
407. “Drawing is giving a performance; an artist is an actor who is not limited by the body, only by his ability and, perhaps, experience.”― Marc Davis
408. Be the art that no one understands.
409. The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.
410. “Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
411. “I started painting as a hobby when I was little. I didn’t know I had any talent. I believe talent is just a pursued interest. Anybody can do what I do.” – Bob Ross
412. “Art is longing. You never arrive but you keep going in the hope that you will.” — Anselm Kiefer
413. “Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.”— bell hooks
414. “When I find myself filling with rage over the loss of a beloved. I try as soon as possible to remember that my concerns and questions should be focused on what I learned or what I have yet to learn from my departed love. What legacy was left which can help me in the art of living a good life?
415. If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul. — Paul Cezanne
416. “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” – Albert Einstein
417. “Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.” — Henry Ward Beecher
418. “To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.” –Criss Jami
419. “I believe the best way to begin reconnecting humanity’s heart, mind, and soul to nature is for us to share our individual stories.” – J. Drew Lanham
420. “In a world of lies and liars. an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.”
421. “Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.” – Leonardo da Vinci
422. “But failure has to be an option in art and in exploration–because it’s a leap of faith. And no important endeavor that required innovation was done without risk. You have to be willing to take those risks … ” –James Cameron
423. “If we really are saying rap is an art form, then we got to be true to it and be more responsible for our lyrics. If you see everybody dying because of what you saying, it don’t matter that you didn’t make them die, it just matters that you didn’t save them.”
424. “If people would just look at the paintings, I don’t think they would have any trouble enjoying them. It’s like looking at a bed of flowers, you don’t tear your hair out over what it means.” – Jackson Pollock
425. “Imagination is the beginning of creation.” – George Bernard Shaw
426. “The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.” — Pablo Picasso
427. Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
428. “I love places that make you realize how tiny you and your problems are.”
429. Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
430. "What I do as an art form is try to make people feel good. and if I do try to make them feel bad, it’s for a reason. There’s something I am trying to say.”
431. "One of my mission statements with all of my art has been to stop the world for people. I want to stop the worrying and stop the world.”
432. “There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.” – Vincent van Gogh
433. “Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time.” — Camille Pissarro
434. “The body and mind are interdependent. They are inseparable in the art of introspection.” – Geeta Iyengar
435. “Drawing is exercise for a restless imagination.”- Tim Burton
436. “I want to make paintings that look as if they were made by a child.” – Jean-Michel Basquiat
437. Diversity: the art of thinking independently, together.” —Malcolm Forbes, American publisher
438. “To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.” – Arthur Conan Doyle
439. “You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not’?” – George Bernard Shaw
440. My greatest piece of art would be capturing the way happiness feels
441. Make Appropriate Use Of Hashtags & Emojis😍
442. “Nature’s beauty is a gift that cultivates appreciation and gratitude.” – Louie Schwartzberg
443. “Our forests offer much more than just beautiful landscapes and wildlife. Each one has a different story to tell.” – Raveena Tandon
444. “If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.” – Émile Zola
445. “In many ways, the art of love is largely the art of persistence.” – Albert Ellis
446. “Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it.” – Ai Weiwei
447. “The chief enemy of creativity is ‘good’ sense.”
448. “Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed.”
449. “The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.”
450. “The Japanese art of kintsugi, or “golden joinery,” a method of repairing cracked pottery with a vein of lacquer mixed with gold or silver. A plausible origin story dates this art to the fifteenth century, when Japanese shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa broke his favorite tea bowl and sent it back to China to be repaired. It was returned with ugly metal staples, prompting the shogun to order his craftsmen to find a more aesthetic means of repair. I love the idea that an accident can be an occasion to make something more delightful, not less so.” – Ingrid Fetell Lee, Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness
451. “Heaven’s best piece of art as mine is something I’m proud of. Most beautiful on the outside and the inside. I’m so blessed to have you in my life.”
452. “Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”― Chuck Klosterman
453. “A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.” – Michael Pollan
454. “In order to awaken the world to the light, we must never be afraid to shine.” – Gabrielle Bernstein
455. “Into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.” – John Muir
456. "Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.” – Gloria Naylor
457. “Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it.” – Salvador Dalí
458. “Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone. we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.”―bell hooks
459. “Every child is an artist. The problem is staying an artist when you grow up.” – Pablo Picasso
460. Kintsugi, the art of beautiful imperfection. ~Unknownquotes about kintsugi
461. “Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.” – Bill Moyers
462. “The Achilles heel of an artist lies in the hope that his art is good.”― Kapil Gupta
463. One of the most valuable things one of my art teachers said to me was, 'Don’t get upset by criticism. Value the fact that at least someone noticed what you did. - Chris Ware
464. “A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.” – Vladimir Nabokov
465. “Stay firmly in your path and dare. Be wild two hours a day!”― Paul Gauguin
466. There is no blue without yellow and without orange.
467. “The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.”- Ulysses S.
468. “Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.” – Andre Gide
469. “I think creative blocks come from people’s life journeys. If you don’t know who you are or what you’re about or what you believe in it’s really pretty impossible to be creative.” — Rainn Wilson
470. “The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” –Mark Van Doren
471. “And at the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy, and your eyes sparkling.” – Shanti
472. “An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.” – Charles Horton Cooley
473. “Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.” – Pablo Picasso
474. “Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while.” – Steve Jobs
475. “Every artist was first an amateur.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
476. “If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all.” – Michelangelo
477. “Cut your ear off and you’re a kook. Paint a picture of yourself with your ear cut off and you’re an artist. Go figure.” – Unknown
478. “Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.” – Octavia Butler
479. "The purpose of art is to bring people into presence.”
480. “Art is the highest form of hope.” — Gerhard Richter
481. “Learning the art of expressing gratitude will force you to focus on the positive.” – Jim Rohn
482. “Being an artist is the same as being a wizard… only instead of a wand you use a pencil for your magic.”- The Picsees
483. “The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.” — Vincent Van Gogh
484. “The most beautiful form of mastery is the art of letting go. ” ― Claudia Gray
485. “Vanity dies on nature trails.” – We Dream of Travel
486. “The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying. ” – Steven Pressfield
487. “Now, almost every week, we talk about kintsugi pottery. Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing a broken bowl by inlaying gold or other precious metals. The new bowl is stronger than the old one. The scars are the design. Your attention is drawn to the cracks and how they are mended. That is what you’re supposed to see. The beauty is in the brokenness.”
488. “If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand.” – The Buddha
489. “Art isn’t a talent. It’s an experience.”
490. “You are so much sunshine in every square inch.” -Walt Whitman
491. If art doesn’t make us better, then nothing can
492. “The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.” —Tony Blair, British politician
493. “Color is a power which directly influences the soul.” — Wassily Kandinsky
494. “The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.” – Joseph Campbell
495. “Come forth into the light things, let nature be your teacher.” – William Wordsworth
496. “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…it has no survival value. Rather, it’s one of those things that give value to survival.” – C.S. Lewis
497. “The antidote to exhaustion isn’t rest. It’s nature.” – Shikoba
498. “The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.” — James Cash Penney, American businessman and entrepreneur.
499. “Going to the mountains is like going home.” – John Muir
500. “I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.” – Frida Kahlo
501. Life without Jeep is like art without color.
502. “I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.” – John Burroughs
503. “When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot become manifest, strength cannot be exerted, wealth is useless, and reason is powerless.”- Herophiles
504. “The magi, as you know, were wise men–wonderfully wise men–who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents. Being wise, their gifts were no doubt wise ones, possibly bearing the privilege of exchange in case of duplication. And here I have lamely related to you the uneventful chronicle of two foolish children in a flat who most unwisely sacrificed for each other the greatest treasures of their house. But in a last word to the wise of these days let it be said that of all who give gifts these two were the wisest. O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.” – The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
505. “True art comes from the anonymous self.” – Maria Riike
506. “The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.” – Piet Mondrian
507. “Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.”― Edgar Degas
508. The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes. —Tony Blair
509. “The most satisfying and most basic art experience is looking – pure, unmediated observation and sensation.”
510. “kintsukuroi, or the “golden repair” of something treasured or important that has become cracked or broken. When applied to the repair of ancient and valuable pieces of pottery, the practice becomes kintsugi, or “golden joinery.” The key to this imaginative art appears when the glue used to fill the cracks and join the broken pieces becomes blended with actual gold. After the repairs have been made, the broken vessel becomes more valuable than ever. Metaphorically, kintsugi suggests that”
511. “Art is what happens when you dare to be who you really are.” — Unknown
512. Include a strong call to action
513. Personality is everything in art and poetry.
514. “Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.” — Oscar Wilde
515. “If I paint something, I don’t want to have to explain what it is.”
516. “It is the supreme art of a teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”- Albert Einstein
517. “Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get the work done. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you’re not going to make an awful lot of work.” ― Chuck Close
518. “Picasso said art is a lie that tells the truth. What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it?” ~ Nicolas Cage
519. “Any great art work… revives and re-adapts 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
520. “Art should disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed.” — Cesar A. Cruz
521. “Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.” – Rembrandt
522. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” — Maya Angelou
523. “Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.” - Ben Shneiderman
524. “It is not necessary for an artist to be crazy, but it helps.” — Unknown
525. “The only power of expression is art.” — Maithili Sharan Gupta
526. “you would think that if Jesus’ agenda is to fix the world gone awry, then the story would end up back where it all started — in Eden, with everybody naked and unashamed. But instead, it’s a little different. Actually, it’s a lot different. It’s a Garden-like city called New Jerusalem with walls and gates and streets and dwellings and art and architecture and food and drink and music and culture. Why is that? Because the Garden was never supposed to stay a garden; it was always supposed to become a garden city.”
527. “One learns first of all in beach living the art of shedding; how little one can get along with, not how much.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
528. “Why do two colours, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? No. Just as one can never learn how to paint.” – Pablo Picasso
529. “One learns first of all in beach living the art of shredding; how little one can get along with, not how much.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
530. “It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.” – Pablo Picasso
531. “I love nature, I love the landscape, because it is so sincere. It never cheats me. It never jests. It is cheerfully, musically earnest. I lie and relie on the earth.” – Henry David Thoreau.
532. “A good artist has less time than ideas.” – Martin Kippenberger
533. “The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.” — Wassily Kandinsky
534. “I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery- air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, ‘This is what it is to be happy.” – Sylvia Plath
535. “Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it.” – Salvador Dali
536. “Filling a space in a beautiful way”
537. “Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.”
538. “Not just beautiful, though – the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me.” – Haruki Murakami
539. “The trick of it. she told herself. is to be courageous and bold and make a different. Not change the world exactly. just the bit around you. Go out there with your double-first. your passion. and your new Smith Carona electric typewriter and work hard at … something. Change lives through art maybe. Write beautifully. Cherish your friends. stay true to your principles. live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved if at all possible. East sensibly. Stuff like that.” ~ David Nicholls
540. “Anybody who perceives colors can become a painter. It’s simply a question of whether or not one has felt anything and whether one has the courage to recount the things one has felt.” — Edvard Munch
541. “I think that’s what art is: art is communication made in the hope that interesting miscommunications will arise.” – Misha Glouberman
542. Let silence be the art you practice.
543. “Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.” – Pablo Picasso
544. “A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.” — Paul Cezanne
545. “Art is never finished, only abandoned.”― Leonardo da Vinci
546. “I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.”
547. “The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.” —Elaine Heffner
548. “Art doesn’t have to be pretty. It has to be meaningful.”-Duane Hanson
549. “The moon is the sun at your place splashing its rays below but it’s the same art board we stare at!” – Suyasha Subedi
550. “Through [my friends] I discovered what it was to love people. There was an art to it … which was not really all that different from the love that is necessary in the making of art. It required the effort of always seeing them for themselves and not as I wished them to be.” – Lucy Grealy
551. “Any great art work … revives and re-adapts 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
552. “I have a flood of ideas in my mind. I just follow my vision.” – Yayoi Kusama
553. “When you become good at the art of letting sufferings go, then you’ll come to realize how unnecessary it was for you to drag those burdens around with you. ” – Osho
554. “I don’t understand why when we destroy something created by man we call it vandalism, but when we destroy something by nature we call it progress.” – Ed Begley Jr.
555. “In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.” – Aristotle
556. “The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.” — Salvador Dali
557. “The Earth without art is just eh.” – Unknown
558. Does distance really matter? You love your favorite actor, drool for your favorite singer and await patiently for the next art from your favorite artist or writer. Why not the one you love?”– Jane Morsel
559. A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.
560. “Through my friends I discovered what it was to love people. There was an art to it … which was not really all that different from the love that is necessary in the making of art. It required the effort of always seeing them for themselves and not as I wished them to be.”
561. “The most satisfying and most basic art experience is looking – pure, unmediated observation and sensation.” – Roy Thurston
562. Dante made the divine comedy. He also observed the beauty of nature and credited that creation to God himself. We are a part of that art and we should take that responsibility with the utmost sincerity. We should be the caretakers for nature. Appreciate what is around us and what we have been given.
563. “As I work at my drawings, day after day, what seemed unattainable before is now gradually becoming possible. Slowly, I’m learning to observe and measure. I don’t stand quite so helpless before nature any longer.”― Vincent van Gogh in ’Lust for Life’
564. …and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?
565. “Fundraising is the gentle art of teaching the joy of giving.” – Hank Rosso
566. “Drawing takes time. A line has time in it.”
567. “The evil genius of darkness presided at its birth, it came forth under the veil of mystery, its true features being carefully concealed, and every deceptive art has been and is practicing to have this spurious brat received as the genuine offspring of heaven-born liberty.”
568. “With a view like this, I’m never leaving.”
569. In many ways, the art of love is largely the art of persistence.. — Albert Ellis
570. The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.
571. “An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.” – James McNeill Whistler
572. “Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
573. “I love art dealers. In some ways, they're my favourite people in the art world. Really. I love that they put their money where their taste is, create their aesthetic universes, support artists, employ people, and do all of this while letting us see art for free. Many are visionaries.” - Jerry Saltz
574. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” ~ General Dwight Eisenhower
575. “For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realise that, in order to survive, he must protect it.” – Jacques-Yves Cousteau
576. “My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature.” – Claude Monet
577. “How gracious is nature to begin every day with a reminder of its beauty and conclude it with equal glory.” – We Dream of Travel
578. “Art is anything you can get away with.” – Andy Warhol
579. “To be an artist is to believe in life.” — Henry Moore
580. Simplicity is an art
581. The art of being a good friend is something you have to study for years. But friendship is about learning new things each and every day. I wish all of us to try our best to be better for our friends, because they deserved it.
582. To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.
583. “Use the creative process – singing, writing, art, dance, whatever – to get to know yourself better.” – Catie Curtis
584. “The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than growing with them.” –Bernard M. Baruch
585. “Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.” – Pablo Picasso
586. “There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.” – Billy Sunday
587. “I dream my painting and I paint my dream.” – Van Gogh
588. “One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.” – William Shakespeare
589. “The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.” – Robert Henri
590. “I draw better than I talk.”
591. “To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation.” – George Herbert Mead
592. “Creativity takes courage.” – Henri Matisse
593. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” General Dwight Eisenhower
594. “There are some days where the mysterious art screams spectacularly, for instance on a rainy day under the city lights at night!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan
595. “Gothic is a stylish, contemporary company driven by classic principles. We create candles inspired by the very best in art and scent making.”
596. A fine work of art – music, dance, painting, story – has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.
597. The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children. — Elaine Heffner
598. “Art is about relinquishing control of your emotions and being vulnerable and innocent.” – K.D. Lang
599. Putting our art out there is one of the biggest risks we can take
600. “The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.” — Eric Gill
601. “Leave the roads; take the trails.” – Pythagoras
602. “Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.” – Henry David Thoreau
603. The goal of art was a vital expression of self.
604. “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” – Albert Einstein
605. “Something about the stillness or my state of mind reminded me of the world’s remarkable capacity to carry on in every place at once.” -Marina Keegan
606. “Colors are the smiles of nature.” – Leigh Hunt
607. “I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.” – Vincent Van Gogh
608. The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
609. “Sometimes. being different feels a lot like being alone. But with that being said. being true to that and being true to my standards and my way of doing things in my art and my music. everything that has made me feel very different…in the end. it has made me the happiest.” – Lindsey Stirling
610. “Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.” – Rachel Carson
611. "The art of listening comes from a quiet mind and an open heart.”
612. “I am seeking. I am striving. I am in it with all my heart.”
613. “Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.”
614. “How sublime to look down on the workhouse of nature, to see her clouds, hail, snow, rain, thunder, all fabricated at our feet!” – Thomas Jefferson
615. “If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.” ― John Lennon
616. “I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.” – Aldo Leopold
617. “Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.” – L.Wolfe Gilbert
618. “Drawing is putting a line around an idea.” – Henri Matisse
619. “Art is not a thing, it is a way.”
620. “After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well.” – Albert Einstein
621. Understand Your Audience
622. “Art is a line around your thoughts.”
623. “With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?” -Oscar Wilde
624. “The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” – Sylvia Plath
625. “Every artist was first an amateur.”
626. “Art is a line around your thoughts.” – Gustav Klimt
627. “All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.” – Havelock Ellis
628. “There is no must in art because art is free.” – Wassily Kandinsky
629. “All beautiful things carry distinctions of imperfection. Your wounds and imperfections are your beauty. Like the broken pottery mended with gold, we are all Kintsugi. Its philosophy and art state that breakage and mending are honest parts of a past which should not be hidden. Your wounds and healing are a part of your history; a part of who you are. Every beautiful thing is damaged. You are that beauty; we all are.” – Bryant McGill
630. “I would rather die of passion than of boredom.” – Vincent van Gogh
631. “Beginning with audacity is a very great part of the art of painting.” – Winston Churchill
632. “The most beautiful thing we can experience in life is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”
633. Food is a kind of art and the artist in me is always ready to cook.
634. “If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.” – Edward Hopper
635. “When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.”
636. “If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson.” - Oscar Wilde
637. “In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.”
638. “Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.”
639. “Art is never finished, only abandoned.” – Leonardo Da Vinci
640. The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
641. “The artist has one function–to affirm and glorify life.” – W. Edward Brow
642. “Today is such a time, when the project of interpretation is largely reactionary, stifling. Like the fumes of the automobile and of heavy industry which befoul the urban atmosphere, the effusion of interpretations of art today poisons our sensibilities. In a culture whose already classical dilemma is the hypertrophy of the intellect at the expense of energy and sensual capability, interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.
643. “Create with the heart; build with the mind.”
644. “Landscape is a piece that is emotional and psychological.” – Jim Hodges.
645. The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.”― Rumi
646. “Only art and music have the power to bring peace.” ~ Yoko Ono
647. “We must not only protect the countryside and save it from destruction, we must restore what has been destroyed and salvage the beauty and charm of our cities … Once our natural splendor is destroyed, it can never be recaptured. And once man can no longer walk with beauty or wonder at nature, his spirit will wither and his sustenance be wasted.” – Lyndon B. Johnson
648. “Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.” – Winston Churchill
649. “To be an artist is to believe in life.” – Henry Moore
650. Art is the best way for children to learn
651. “Even though you have learned the skill of running on empty, now is the time to learn the art of breathing deep all over again.” -Morgan Harper Nichols
652. “You can’t use up creativity. The more the you use, the more you have.” –Maya Angelou
653. “I could see the sun moving, but not its motion… and then I realized the same could be said for life.” – We Dream of Travel
654. “The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.” — Banksy
655. “The mountains are calling and I must go.” – John Muir
656. Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
657. “Master the art of acceptance and live a peaceful Life.” ~ Invajy
658. “When you stop doing things for fun, you might as well be dead.” Ernst Hemingway
659. “The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
660. “If you want to live an authentic. meaningful life. you need to master the art of disappointing and upsetting others. hurting feelings. and living with the reality that some people just won’t like you. It may not be easy. but it’s essential if you want your life to reflect your deepest desires. values. and needs.”
661. “Camping is a humanitarian effort to help feed hungry mosquitoes.” – Melanie White
662. There are no mistakes. Only happy accidents.
663. Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.
664. “Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.” — Andre Gide
665. “I go to seek a great perhaps.” -John Green
666. “Nothing is art if it does not come from nature.” – Antoni Gaudi
667. “Artist by nature. Every art is a masterpiece.”
668. “Till death, we do art.” — Unknown
669. “Golden Healing: Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken objects with gold. Because the ‘flaw’ reveals its history, the resulting piece is considered more beautiful. Your healing is your story. Mend yourself with love.”
670. “If you want to live an authentic, meaningful life, you need to master the art of disappointing and upsetting others, hurting feelings, and living with the reality that some people just won’t like you. It may not be easy, but it’s essential if you want your life to reflect your deepest desires, values, and needs.”— Cheryl Richardson
671. “Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant. ” —Socrates, Greek philosopher
672. “There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.”—Billy Sunday
673. “In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.” – John Muir
674. “To me, a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.” – Helen Keller
675. “Don’t be an art critic, but paint, there lies salvation.” – Paul Cézanne
676. “Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s party!'” – Robin Williams
677. “We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.” – Albert Einstein
678. “Draw me like one of your French girls.” — Rose in Titanic
679. “Living without a care, with mud on my boots and the wind in my hair.” – We Dream of Travel
680. “The sound of a waterfall is nature’s lullaby.” – We Dream of Travel
681. “I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.” – Pierre Auguste Renoir
682. “Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.”
683. Some of the most beautiful art is photography or paintings that attempt to mimic natural landforms and pieces of nature. The truth is that none of us can match the original material. We can only hope to compare favorably to such beauty. That’s probably why the best known artists went in completely unique directions.
684. There is no must in art because art is free.
685. “People don’t tell me what I need to hear. I listen to the unsaid words, observe quietly, and read the unspoken words between the lines. The words they think they hide from me. This kind of listening is an art in itself.” – Unknown
686. “All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. ” – Henry Havelock Ellis
687. "Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.”
688. “Be kind to others. so that you may learn the secret art of being kind to yourself.” – Paramahansa Yogananda
689. The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men, it is said to have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. – George Moore
690. “Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.” – Philip Guston
691. “Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
692. “Creativity takes courage” – Henri Matisse.
693. “All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. ” – Havelock Ellis
694. “Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.” – Vincent Van Gogh
695. “The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water, and air. It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it.” – Sir David Attenborough
696. “I love art dealers….I love that they put their money where their taste is, create their aesthetic universes, support artists, employ people, and do all of this while letting us see art for free. Many are visionaries.” — Jerry Saltz
697. “Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.”― Al Hirschfeld
698. “Donald Marquis called procrastination ‘the art of keeping up with yesterday.’ To this I would add, “and avoiding today.”
699. “All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.” – Marie Curie
700. “Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.” – Anthony J. D’Angelo
701. “Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.” – Don Marquis
702. “Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.” – Balthus
703. “In art, what we want is the certainty that one spark of original genius shall not be extinguished.” – Mary Cassatt
704. “The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.” — Elaine Heffner
705. “Intentional living is the art of making our own choices before others’ choices make us.”
706. “Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.” – Marc Chagall
707. “The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.”― Wassily Kandinsky
708. “Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is in getting them clean again, and therein lies the whole morality of our epoch.”
709. “A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.”― Paul Cezanne
710. “Suffering is not holding you. You are holding suffering. When you become good at the art of letting sufferings go, then you’ll come to realize how unnecessary it was for you to drag those burdens around with you. You’ll see that no one else other than you was responsible. The truth is that existence wants your life to become a festival.”
711. “The purity of unison singing, unaffected by alien motives of musical techniques, the clarity, unspoiled by the attempt to give musical art an autonomy of its own apart from the words, the simplicity and frugality, the humaneness and warmth of this way of singing is the essence of all congregational singing. This,”
712. Cooking is the art of adjustment.
713. Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
714. Relationships may come and go, but arts stay forever
715. “Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and of life.” – Henri Frederic Amiel
716. “There are some days where the mysterious art screams spectacularly, for instance on a rainy day under the city lights at night!” – Mehmet Murat ildan
717. “To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.” – Mahatma Gandhi
718. “All art is a form of vulnerability because at least part of the artist goes into the piece.” – A.D. Posey
719. “Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.”
720. “All the lights are sparking for you, it seems.” -Lana Del Rey
721. “I’m not performing miracles, I’m using up and wasting a lot of paint.” – Claude Monet
722. The principle of true art is not to portray but to evoke.
723. “The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.” –Tony Blair
724. “Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.” – Henry Ward Beecher
725. “Creativity takes courage”
726. “Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand.” — Pablo Picasso
727. The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.” – Elaine Heffner
728. People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.
729. “I complain about the United States not being Athens. I certainly say we are a very good Roman republic, and the lies are based upon the most advanced techniques of advertising, which is the only art form my country has ever created—the television commercial—and we sell soap and presidents in the same fashion. Once a country is habituated to liars, it takes generations to bring the truth back.”
730. “The art world is the biggest joke going. It’s a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak. And modern art is a disgrace – never have so many people used so much stuff and taken so long to say so little.” – Banksy
731. “Less talk, more art.” — Unknown
732. “The Japanese art form of kintsugi repairs broken and flawed pottery with gold, silver or platinum. It doesn’t hide the cracks, but embraces it, seeing it as integral to the object’s history, and rebuilds something new.”
733. “My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.” – Agnes Martin
734. “The art of appreciation begins with self-appreciation.” ― Amit Abraham
735. “In the language of delicate perception Kintsugi is the art of mending what is broken. The Emperor’s plate is smashed. Death and despair! Yet here is powdered gold and platinum, with resin bled from Chinese lacquer trees to run in cracks and make it whole again. For my poor love I cannot find repair without a balm more powerful than these.” – Roy Ernest Ballard
736. “Painting is a means of self-enlightenment.” – John Olsen
737. “There are always flowers for those who want to see them.” – Henri Matisse
738. The only part I’ll ever study is the stuff that I can steal from.
739. The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes. —Tony Blair, British politician
740. “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” – Thomas Merton
741. “Creativity is contagious, pass it on.” – Albert Einstein
742. “Suffering is not holding you. You are holding suffering. When you become good at the art of letting sufferings go, then you’ll come to realize how unnecessary it was for you to drag those burdens around with you. You’ll see that no one else other than you was responsible. The truth is that existence wants your life to become a festival. ” – Osho
743. “If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for?” – Alice Walker
744. “We don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents.” – Bob Ross
745. “Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.”
746. “Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.” ― Ingmar Bergman
747. “The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.” — Francis Bacon
748. “The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they’re always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.” – Norman Rockwell
749. “The idea of divine inspiration and an aha moment is largely a fantasy. Anything of value comes from hard work and unwavering dedication. If you want to be a good artist you need to look at other artists, make a lot of crappy art, and just keep working.” — Sydney Pink
750. “Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.” — Edgar Degas
751. “They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” – Andy Warhol
752. “Yoga is the art work of awareness on the canvas of body, mind, and soul.” ― Amit Ray
753. “Laws change; people die; the land remains.” – Abraham Lincoln
754. The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.” – Voltaire
755. “Society is like a large piece of frozen water, and skating well is the great art of social life.”
756. “The art of humility begins with a recognition of our dependence on others and an appreciation of God’s gift of life.” — Wilferd Peterson
757. “Art doesn’t have to be pretty. It has to be meaningful.”
758. There are three responses to a piece of design: yes, no, and wow.
759. Errors are not in the art but in the artificers. - Isaac Newton
760. “Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.” – Jimmy Carter
761. “Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures.” – Henry Ward Beecher
762. “The power of nature is such that it’s what all art strives to be. The more we can get in tune with the harmony of the planet, the more our art can benefit from that relationship.” — Rick Rubin
763. “Somewhere on your journey, don’t forget to stop and enjoy the view.”
764. “Nature is loved by what is best in us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
765. The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.
766. “To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.” — Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
767. “A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.“― Salvador Dali
768. “Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.”
769. “Art is the journey of a free soul.”
770. "There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing." - Billy Sunday
771. “Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.” – Georgia O’Keeffe
772. “Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.” – Theodore Roethke
773. “I know of no pleasure deeper than that which comes from contemplating the natural world and trying to understand it.” – Sir David Attenborough
774. “You may meditate more than you know. That moment where your mind stopped and you just watched the sunset… that is meditation.” – We Dream of Travel
775. “I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.” – Frida Kahlo
776. “Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.” – Claude Debussy
777. “There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.” – Sir William Osler
778. “The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.” – Georges Simenon
779. “For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.” – Georges Rouault
780. Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.
781. “Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.”
782. “I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don’t like it, you can paint over it!” – Banksy
783. “If you can’t be in awe of Mother Nature, there’s something wrong with you.” – Alex Trebeck
784. “All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.” — John Ruskin
785. “Great art picks up where nature ends.” – Marc Chagall
786. “I make art to show my soul I am listening.” — Pat Wiederspan Jones
787. “If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.” – Salvador Dalí
788. “The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.” – George Santayana
789. “Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it.” – Andy Warhol
790. I'm just a simple guy. I love beer, sex, and hockey. I hate liars, Sting, and art that doesn't have people in it. - Luke Almeida - Author: Kate Meader
791. “The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.” ― Theodor W. Adorno
792. Nature is the art of God. —Dante Alighieri
793. Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.
794. “The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said to have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.” – George Moore
795. "Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.” — Oscar Wilde
796. “Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have the eyes to see them.” – John Ruskin
797. Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant. — Socrates
798. “Art is the stored honey of the human soul.” — Theodore Dreiser
799. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” Dwight D. Eisenhower
800. “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.” -Rumi
801. “My idea of heaven is to wake up, have a good breakfast, and spend the rest of the day drawing.”― Peter Falk
802. “A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.” – Michelangelo
803. “Time spent amongst trees is never wasted time.” – Katrina Mayer
804. “A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.” – Eugene Ionesco
805. “Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.” – Henry David Thoreau
806. “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” – Scott Adams
807. “In art, there is only one thing that counts: the thing you can’t explain.” — Georges Braque
808. “Creative work is a gift to the world and every being in it. Don’t cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you’ve got.” – Steven Pressfield
809. “Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet.” – Paul Klee
810. The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. Mark Van Doren
811. “Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” – Degas
812. “I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.” – Albrecht Dürer
813. “Man needs music, literature, and painting – all those oases of perfection that make up art – to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.” – Fernando Botero
814. “Great design is achieved not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” – De Saint Exupery
815. “…and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?” – Vincent Van Gogh
816. “Being able to smell the fresh air and disconnect from the news and your phone- there’s nothing like it.” – Jason Ward
817. “There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.” – Linda Hogan
818. “All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. ” ― Henry Havelock Ellis
819. Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.
820. “Those who do not want to imitate anything produce nothing.”― Salvador Dali
821. “Birds have always had the ability to bring me out of a dark space and provide relief in bad times.” – Jason Ward
822. “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up”
823. “Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” – Pablo Picasso
824. “Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.” — Rene Magritte
825. “Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.”- John W. Gardner
826. “Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye, it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.” – Edvard Munch
827. "The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.” – Henry Ward Beecher
828. “Anyone who says you can’t see a thought simply doesn’t know art.” — W. Ann Reynolds
829. Procrastination is an art form that is less desirable than painting a detailed landscape using a three inch wide brush. Byron Pulsifer
830. “No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.” – Oscar Wilde
831. “The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.” – Francis Bacon
832. “All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.” — Julio Cortázar
833. “What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.” –Octavio Paz
834. “What moves men of genius, or rather what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.” — Eugene Delacroix
835. “Paint is only wasted when it stays in the tube.” — Unknown
836. When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.
837. “To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.” — Schumann
838. To be great, art has to point somewhere.
839. “It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.” — Vincent Van Gogh
840. “Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last, you create what you will.” – George Bernard Shaw
841. “Art is what happens when you dare to be who you really are.”
842. “Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.” – Bell Hooks
843. “Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye and the eye through the mind. As the sun colours flowers, so does art colour life.” John Lubbock
844. “The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” – Aristotle
845. Living is the art of getting used to what we didn’t expect.
846. When I am in my painting, I’m not aware of what I’m doing.
847. “You are the artist of your life, don’t give the paintbrush to anyone else.” — Iva Ursano
848. “There’s a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line”
849. “The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.”
850. The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.
851. "Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower
852. “Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.” – Frank Lloyd Wright
853. “Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed.” ~ Invajy
854. “The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than growing with them.” – Bernard M. Baruch
855. “There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.” – Pablo Picasso
856. “The wilderness holds answers to questions man has not yet learned to ask.” – Nancy Newhall
857. “In order to polish and perfect the part he has devised for himself, the new Narcissus gazes at his own reflection, not so much in admiration as in unremitting search of flaws, signs of fatigue, decay. Life becomes a work of art, while “the first art work in an artist,” in Norman Mailer’s pronouncement, “is the shaping of his own personality.”
858. “Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.” ― Will Rogers
859. “Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.” – Voltaire
860. “At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough. You don’t need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough.” – Toni Morrison
861. “The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher
862. "Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art."-Andy Warhol
863. “Your career is your business. You are its CEO. Complacency breeds failure. As the CEO of your career. you must continually improve your skills. especially the art of communication.” – Carmine Gallo
864. The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.
865. “Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.” – Claude Monet
866. What do you think about my new jet ski? Is this an example of life imitating art or what?
867. “Nature is the art of God.”
868. “Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach of us more than we can ever learn from books.” – John Lubbock
869. The art of self-care.
870. Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. — General Dwight Eisenhowe
871. “Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums,
872. To be an artist is to believe in life.
873. Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
874. “Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.” – Hans Christian Andersen
875. “The soul of a landscape, the spirits of the elements, the genius of every place will be revealed to a loving view of nature.” – Karl Jaspers.
876. “It is only when you have mastered the art of loving yourself that you can truly love others. It is only when you have opened your own heart that you can touch the heart of others.” – Robin Sharma
877. “The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.” – George Santayana
878. Life without Jeep is like art without color.
879. “Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
880. “There’s that old cliche that art is never finished, only abandoned. That’s the nice thing about comics. It forces you to abandon it long before maybe you’re ready to let it go.” — Jonathan Hickman
881. Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
882. “Man needs music, literature, and painting – all those oases of perfection that make up art – to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.” – Fernando Botero
883. “A reasoning being would lose his reason, in attempting to account for the great phenomena of nature.” – George Washington
884. "One of my mission statements with all of my art has been to stop the world for people. I want to stop the worrying and stop the world.”
885. “It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” – Albert Einstein
886. “The evil genius of darkness presided at its birth, it came forth under the veil of mystery, its true features being carefully concealed, and every deceptive art has been and is practicing to have this spurious brat received as the genuine offspring of heaven-born liberty.”
887. “They couldn’t find the artist so they hung the picture.” – Frank Zappa
888. “The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.” — Wassily Kandinsky
889. “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” – Scott Adams
890. “Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.”
891. “If we’re all saying that rap is an art form, then we gotta be more responsible for our lyrics. If you see everybody dying because of what you’re saying, it don’t matter that you didn’t make them die, it just matters that you didn’t save them.”
892. “The sky is the ultimate art gallery just above us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
893. “Art is power. It can influence perception, opinion and values. And the artist who creates uses his paintbrush to focus on a moment in time…recording those things that touch the heart.” – Nina Baldwin
894. You need to learn the rules before you can break them
895. “Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.” – Henry David Thoreau
896. “A person who is truly cool is a work of art. And remember the original works of art cost exponentially higher than imitations. Just take a look at the coolest people in history. They will always be a part of history for being extremely original individuals. not imitations.” – Suzy Kassem
897. The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes. —Tony Blair, British politician
898. “All art, like all love, is rooted in heartache.”
899. “The trick of it. she told herself. is to be courageous and bold and make a different. Not change the world exactly. just the bit around you. Go out there with your double-first. your passion. and your new Smith Carona electric typewriter and work hard at … something. Change lives through art maybe. Write beautifully. Cherish your friends. stay true to your principles. live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved if at all possible. East sensibly. Stuff like that.” ~ David Nicholls
900. “The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” Mark Van Doren
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