Quotes for All
That experience of touching down in a totally foreign place is like having a blank canvas: You begin with nothing, but stroke by stroke you build a life. This process requires everything great art requires-risk-tasking, hope, a great deal of imagination, all the qualities that are the building blocks of art. You must be able … Read more
Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world. Edward Hopper
Great art is indefinable but that’s all right; it exists anyway. Edward Abbey
Great art is never perfect; perfect art is never great. Edward Abbey
The child and the great artist — these alone receive the sensation fresh as it was at the beginning of the world. Edith Sitwell
All great art contains an element of the irrational. Edith Sitwell
Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within. Edith Hamilton
A woman does not want the truth; what is truth to women? From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile to woman than the truth – her great art is the lie, her highest concern is mere appearance and beauty. Friedrich Nietzsche
All great artists and thinkers are great workers. Friedrich Nietzsche
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. Friedrich Nietzsche