From time to time I come across some wonderful quotes about art and artists that I like to share. A number of the ones I've posted here today are real gems. I hope you enjoy them.
"To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's sin."
---Oscar Wilde
"A man who works with his hands is a laborer, a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman, but a man who works with his hands, his brain, and his heart is an artist."
---Louis Nizer
"Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art."
---Leonardo da Vinci
"Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun."
---Pablo Picasso
"The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else."
---John Updike
"I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music."
--Ansel Adams
"Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated."
---Auguste Rodin
"What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things...it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating it's exterior surface."
---Brancusi
"My inspiration is ART...because without ART we would just be stuck with reality."
---Daniel R Lynch
"Art is literacy of the heart."
---Elliot Fisner
"I am an artist...I am here to live out loud."
---Emile Zola.
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