Quotes on Fine Arts

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

God is busy with the completion of your work, both outwardly and inwardly. He is fully occupied with you. Every human being is a work in progress that is slowly but inexplicably moving toward perfection. We are each an unfinished work of art both waiting and striving to be completed. God deals with each of us separately because humanity is a fine art of skilled penmanship where every single dot is equally important for the entire picture.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

But if you're talking about fine art work, then I think you have to ask yourself some pretty deep questions about why it is you want to take pictures and what it is you want to say.

If you're looking for something to be brave about, consider fine arts.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running was mankind's first fine art, our original act of inspired creation.

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way. Oh my dear, I can’t be clever and stand-offish with you: I love you too much for that. Too truly.You have no idea how stand-offish I can be with people I don’t love. I have brought it to a fine art. But you have broken down my defences. And I don’t really resent it.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.