Showing posts with label art quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art quotes. Show all posts

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Quotes from Vincent Van Gogh

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.

Conscience is a man's compass.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

The way to know life is to love many things.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Great Quotes from Pablo Picasso

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.

If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.