“You don't take a photograph, you make it.”
Ansel Adams
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Art Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · ART
Art Quotes
Read 200 of the best art quotes from Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh, Leonardo da Vinci, Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe, Rabindranath Tagore and more on creativity and the artist's life.
“There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.”
Ansel Adams
PhotographyClarity
“Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.”
Henri Cartier-Bresson
PhotographyPractice
“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.”
Dorothea Lange
PhotographySeeing
“A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know.”
Diane Arbus
PhotographyMystery
“If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough.”
Robert Capa
PhotographyCourage
“Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.”
Twyla Tharp
CreativityHabits
“You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”Maya Angelou
CreativityPractice
“The greatest scientists are artists as well.”
Albert Einstein
“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”
Albert Einstein
TeachingCreativity
“Creativity is just connecting things.”
Steve Jobs
CreativityIdeas
“It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the result that makes our heart sing.”
Steve Jobs
TechnologyHumanities
“Art takes nature as its model.”Aristotle
NatureImitation
“Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.”Plato
BeautySimplicity
“All art is but imitation of nature.”
Seneca
NatureImitation
“When I am a hundred and ten, everything I do, be it a dot or a line, will be alive.”
Katsushika Hokusai
Lifelong LearningMastery
“Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence.”
Okakura Kakuzō
BeautyEveryday Life
“The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.”
Okakura Kakuzō
LifeAdaptability
“Art is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.”Rabindranath Tagore
SoulCreativity
“There is no wise maxim, no learning, no art or craft, no device, no action that is not found in drama.”
Natya Shastra
Indian ArtTheatre
“It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance.”
Henry James
LifeMeaning
“My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel; it is, before all, to make you see.”
Joseph Conrad
WritingVision
“Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness.”
Willa Cather
GrowthTruth
“To practise any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.”
Kurt Vonnegut
SoulPractice
“Make good art.”
Neil Gaiman
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