Below are quotes that have appeared on our home page.
“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
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“It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old waterproof on the coat rack to dry and put my worn and weathered felt hat on the rack above the bench and ordered a cafe au lait. The waiter brought it and I took out a notebook from the pocket of the coat and a pencil and started to write. I was writing about up in Michigan and since it was a wild, cold, blowing day it was that sort of day in the story.”
Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
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“What attracted me was less art itself than the artist’s life and all that it meant for me: the idea of creativity and freedom of expression and action.”
Pierre Bonnard
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“…no artist needs criticism, he only needs appreciation. If he needs criticism he is no artist.”
Gertrude Stein
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“An idea is a beginning point and no more… Nothing else matters; creation is all. Have you ever seen a finished picture? A picture or anything else? Woe to you the day it is said that you are finished! To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul – to give it its final blow; the most unfortunate one for the painter as well as for the picture.”
Pablo Picasso
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“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time. “
T.S. Elliot
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“I’m only what I am – and I’m free to live the minutes as they come. If you know me at all you must know me as I am. The night is very still. ”
Georgia O’Keefe
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“Although art is fundamentally everywhere and always the same, nevertheless two main human inclinations, diametrically opposed to each other, appear in its many and varied expressions. One aims at the direct creation of universal beauty, the other at the aesthetic expression of oneself, in other words, of that which one thinks and experiences. The first aims at representing reality objectively, the second subjectively…
“For the artist the search for a unified expression through the balance of two opposites has been, and always will be, a continual struggle. “
Piet Mondrian
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“As you go about constantly observe, note, and consider the circumstances and behavior of men as they talk and quarrel, or laugh, or come to blows; the actions of men themselves, and the bystanders who intervene or look on. And take note of them with rapid strokes thus, in a little book that you should always carry with you….These things should not be rubbed out but preserved with great care, for the forms and positions of objects are so infinite that the memory is incapable of retaining them.”
Leonardo Da Vinci
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