Scrollwork Art Quotes

I went to art school and never thought I'd be a musician, but then punk rock came along in the late 70s and kind of ruined my life. So I quit art school to get involved in music and I've been doing it ever since. ~ Michael Gira

Art is an expression of inner perception as an outer reality. ~ Debasish Mridha

Like all art forms, film is a media as powerful as weapons of mass destruction; the only difference is that war destroys and film inspires. ~ Nicolas Winding Refn

Every piece of art has a buyer. Only Time decides when the right buyer will see it. ~ Suzy Kassem

In every art beginners must start with models of those who have practiced the same art before them. And it is not only a matter of looking at the drawings, paintings, musical compositions, and poems that have been and are being created; it is a matter of being drawn into the individual work of art, of realizing that it has been made by a real human being, and trying to discover the secret of its creation. ~ Ruth Whitman

Without a doubt,
I must read,
all the books
I've read about.
See the artworks
hung on hooks,
that I have only,
seen in books. ~ Lang Leav

All of those art-based fields are similar in that they're all hard to make a living in and they all require an intense amount of training and discipline. ~ Alicia Witt

The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness. ~ Loren Eiseley

I don't think life owes me anything and the business doesn't owe me anything. The only way to approach it is by working hard and loving what you do. If you do that and have faith, maybe you will get lucky. I mean that sincerely and specifically. I truly believe that no professional career in the arts is capable without a healthy dose of luck. ~ Bryan Cranston

The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape the students. What the educator does in teaching is to make it possible for the students to become themselves. ~ Paulo Freire

Compared with my brother, I always felt like Richard III, some clever humpbacked thing who surpassed him in the end. He was the one who read books, but I became the writer. He painted and drew, but I was the one who got accepted by the High School of Music and Art. ~ Jerome Charyn

We grew tired together, creating our own kind of art. We became the masterpieces of the loneliest souls. The colors in both of our eyes bled out, knowing that sometimes the most beautiful pieces of art were created from the darkest of souls. ~ Brittainy C. Cherry

Admire the art of the archer: he never touches the body and breaks the heart. ~ Anonymous

Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear on our lives. ~ Cheryl Strayed

Where does contagion end and art begin? ~ Neil Gaiman

Ballet isn't pop culture, after all; it is an art of the chosen few, a selected elite, for those who understand it; and it is also an art that you have to learn and study.3 ~ Catherine E. Pawlick

For most of Western civilization there was no real division between the realms of science, divinity, and artistic endeavor - they were just three strands of the same braid, all of them pulling toward the same beautiful desire: to try to understand the workings of this curious and beautiful world. There were many people who would have called themselves all three things at once: men of god, men of science, men of the arts. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert

I believe that every artist, in one way or another, is a wounded person. It's not natural to make art. ~ Paul Auster

Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies. ~ Aristotle.

O drink is mighty! secrets it unlocks, Turns hope to fact, sets cowards on to box, Takes burdens from the careworn, finds out parts In stupid folks, and teaches unknown arts. What tongue hangs fire when quickened by the bowl? What wretch so poor but wine expands his soul? ~ Horace

Promise me you'll never go away.
Promise me you'll always stay. ~ Tegan Quin

The Cabbage White
The butterfly, a cabbage-white,
(His honest idiocy of flight)
Will never now, it is too late,
Master the art of flying straight,
Yet has- who knows so well as I?-
A just sense of how not to fly:
He lurches here and here by guess
And God and hope and hopelessness.
Even the acrobatic swift
Has not his flying-crooked gift. ~ Robert Graves

We survive. We're Irish. We have the souls of poets. We love our misery, we delight in the beauty of strange places and dark places in our hearts. ~ Eilis Flynn

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

What if you began to see your art as something other than your idea? What if it was less lofty and more necessary to your daily rhythm? What if your art is part of a bigger picture, part of a daily grace God has in mind for someone else? ~ Emily P. Freeman

You can't know what you need to know until it's up for you to know it. ~ Art Hochberg

Woman is frequently praised as the more "creative" sex. She does not need to make poems, it is argued; she has no drive to make poems, because she is privileged to make babies. A pregnancy is as fulfilling as, say, Yeats' Sailing to Byzantium ... To call a child a poem may be a pretty metaphor, but it is a slur on the labor of art. ~ Cynthia Ozick

Every child should try everything: sport, music, art, mathematics; they can do it all. Copying and competition are now seen as twin evils, but they are both useful tools. ~ Tony Buzan

Sabrina fair
Listen where thou art sitting
Under the glassie, cool, translucent wave,
In twisted braids of Lillies knitting
The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair,
Listen for dear honour's sake,
Goddess of the silver lake,
Listen and save. ~ John Milton

I strive for perfection, but of course it can never be perfect. I'm never satisfied at the end of a performance. But the great thing about live theatre is that every night you get another chance to get it right. ~ Anthony Warlow

Art and science are made when people are terrified that they are going to die. (about "Arcadia" by Iain Pears) ~ Jen Campbell

Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing. ~ Peter Hammill

The basic unit for contemporary art is not the idea, but the analysis of and extension of sensations. ~ Susan Sontag

Trying to make certain things on the Internet totally private unless you subscribe. It's not going to work. If you can figure out how to close something down, somebody can figure out how to open it up. That's art. ~ Lawrence Weiner

Now then, let's come right down in here and put some nice big strong arms on these trees. Tree needs an arm too. It'll hold up the weight of the forest. Little bird has to have a place to set there. There he goes ... ~ Bob Ross

'Crazy' is a term of art; 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble. ~ Hunter S. Thompson

I go to make art as who I am as a person. The fact that I am a woman comes into play maybe in the kinds of things I'm interested in or in the way I structure a canvas. ~ Judy Chicago

The art of existence is to live your own myth.
To understand your own myth.
To expand your own myth. ~ Talismanist Giebra

I think if you are a musician, and artist, you have to have a certain courage. Repeating yourself or photocopying other's art... it's cowardice. If you actually risk your career to do something new, even if it's in a very small way, then it's art. ~ Thomas Gabriel Fischer

Art thou a friend to Roderick? ~ Walter Scott