Visual Art Quotes

• Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

  Julia Morgan

  Art, Talking, Architecture

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• Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.

  Barbara Januszkiewicz

  Art, Imagination, Visuals

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• Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

  Thomas Merton

  Art, Fools Day, Finding Yourself

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.35, Shambhala Publications

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• Art is humanity's most essential, most universal language. It is not a frill, but a necessary part of communication. The quality of civilization can be measured through its music, dance, drama, architecture, visual art and literature. We must give our children knowledge and understanding of civilization's most profound works.

  Ernest L. Boyer

  Art, Children, Drama

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• Our one goal is to give the world a taste of peace, friendship and understanding. Through the visual arts, the art of celebration of life.

  Steven Spielberg

  Art, Giving, Goal

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• There is no must in art because art is free.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Art, Freedom, Painter

  Wassily Kandinsky (1981). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art”, p.52, Library of Alexandria

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• Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

  Edgar Degas

  Art, Experience, Painting

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• I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.

  Joan Miro

  Art, Color, Trying

  "Joan Miro: Selected Writings and Interviews". Book by Joan Miró, editing by M.Rowell, Thames and Hudson, 1987.

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• There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through

  Dan Rice

  Art, Three, Looks

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• In visual art it's better once to see, than one hundred times to hear.

  Igor Babailov

  Art, Knowledge, Hundred

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• Art is the triumph over chaos.

  John Cheever

  Art, Triumph, Chaos

  John Cheever (1961). “Some Peoples, Places, and Things that Will Not Appear in My Next Novel”, New York : Harper

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• It's the same with visual arts, you have some really cool, wonderful striking images that make you think and then again you have wonderful striking images that just take you away from the existing world for a second. And I like the latter a bit more

  Ville Valo

  Art, Thinking, Make You Think

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• Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Philosophy, Creative

  Paul Gauguin (1921). “Gauguin's Intimate Journals”, p.109, Courier Corporation

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• Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Art, Funny Friend, Drawing

  "The Golden Book" Magazine, Vol. 7, (p. 323), 1928.

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• Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

  Henri Matisse

  Funny, Art, Expression

  "The Christian Science Monitor", quoted in the review of "The Drawings of Henri Matisse" exhibit at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art by Theodore F. Wolff, March 25, 1985.

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• I like visual arts, and what I love doing is participating in the making of it.

  Sonia Braga

  Art, Visuals, Participating

  "Q&A: Sonia Braga plays the role of her life at 66". Associated Press Interview, www.dailymail.co.uk. December 2, 2016.

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• A picture book is a small door to the enormous world of the visual arts, and they're often the first art a young person sees.

  Tomie dePaola

  Art, Book, Doors

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• The visual arts must communicate to the human spirit, forcing individuals to reflect on themselves and their existence beyond their own self-interest.

  Dean Mitchell

  Art, Self, Spirit

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• Creating music, visual art, producing music and film are always at the forefront of my life. Everything great that has come into my life has been through channeling and manifestation of a vision or dream. Pure passion equals love.

  Matt Sorum

  Dream, Art, Passion

  "Guns and Roses Matt Sorum on Passion and Compassion". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• God's careful instructions for building the tabernacle in Exodus 31 remind us that his perfection sets the standard for whatever we create in his name. Whatever we happen to make-not only in the visual arts, but in all the arts-we should make it as well as we can, offering God our very best.

  Philip Graham Ryken

  Art, Offering, Names

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• A community united by the ideals of compassion and creativity has incredible power. Art of all kinds---music, literature, traditional arts, visual arts---can lift a community.

  Martin O'Malley

  Art, Creativity, Compassion

  "Politics Take Center Stage at Art Basel Miami Beach" by Rana Florida, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 30, 2015.

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• I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.

  J. Carter Brown

  Art, Spirit, Kindred

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• Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word.

  Eugenio Montale

  Art, Hymns, Becoming

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• I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

  David Bowie

  Art, Way, Painting

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• I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't been able to shift into fiction.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Art, Fiction, Narrative

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