Thursday, February 7, 2013

Quote Findings - Art

"Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal" - Igor Stravinsky

"No great artist ever sees things as they really are.  If he did, he would cease to be an artist" - Oscar Wilde

"Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable" - George Bernard Shaw

"Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle" - Michelangelo

"Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered" - Al Capp

"Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything" - Gustave Flaubert

"I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning" - Andy Worhol

"Lying in a bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one has a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling" - Gilbert K. Chesterton

"An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it" - Paul Valery

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep" - Scott Adams

"A great artist is always before his time or behind it" - George Edward Moore

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