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Thursday, October 24, 2013

Ten Art Quotes For Every Artist and Art Lover

Ten Quotes For Every Artist and Art Lover


  1. "Every artist was first an amateur."
    -Ralph Waldo Emerson
  2. "This world is but a canvas to our imagination."
    -Henry David Thoreau
  3. "A picture is worth a thousand words."
    -Napoleon Bonaparte
  4. "An artist is not paid for his labor but his vision."
    -James Whistler
  5. "Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
    -Scott Adams
  6. "Art Enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."
    -Thomas Merton
  7. "The aim of art is to represent the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."
    -Aristotle
  8. "The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."
    -Pablo Picasso
  9. "Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle."
    -Michelangelo
  10. "The artist is nothing without the gift, the gift is nothing without the work."
    -Emile Zola

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