ART THOUGHTS - 3
Creativity is allowing your self to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. Scott Adams
"The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself." - Anna Quindlen
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. ~Stella Adler
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies. ~Pablo Picasso
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. ~Oscar Wilde
The artist does not see things as they are, but as he is. ~Alfred Tonnelle
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. ~Aristotle
ART THOUGHTS
Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid. ~Jules Feiffer
When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college - that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared at me, incredulous, and said, "You mean they forget?" ~Howard Ikemoto
The question of common sense is always what is it good for? - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage. ~James Russell Lowell
