Quotes on Fine Arts

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

By trying to understand everything, everything makes me dream

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.

Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.

Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

While the world of reality has its limits, the world of your imagination is without boundaries

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'

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.

Fine art is knowledge made visible.

I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.