Art Quotes
“When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.”
“It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.”
-- Isadora Duncan
“Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.”
-- Charles de Lint
“The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.”
-- Henry Ward Beecher
“'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'”
-- W. H. Auden