FAMOUS QUOTES ABOUT ART AND SOUL

“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.” – Henry Ward Beecher

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” – Pablo Picasso

“Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.” – Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Art is the longing of the soul.” – Vincent Van Gogh

“The artist’s mission is to make the soul perceptible. Our scientific, materialist culture trains us to develop the eyes of outer perception. Visionary art encourages the development of our inner sight.” – Alex Grey

“The only time I feel alive is when I’m painting.” – Vincent Van Gogh

“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.” – Oscar Wilde

“Art is a journey of the soul expressing itself.” – Katrina Mayer

“Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.” – Dorothy Parker

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” – Edgar Degas

“The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.” – Plato

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” – Thomas Merton

“Art is the stored honey of the human soul.” – Theodore Dreiser

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.” – Pablo Picasso

“Every artist was first an amateur.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson FRIENDS TV QUOTE ABOUT GLASSES

“Great art picks up where nature ends.” – Marc Chagall

“The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.” – Plutarch

“Art is not freedom from discipline, but disciplined freedom.” – John F. Kennedy

“Art should disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed.” – Cesar A. Cruz

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.” – Albert Einstein

“Art is the window to man’s soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.” – Lady Bird Johnson

“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” – Aristotle

“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.” – Emily Dickinson

“Art is not a thing; it is a way.” – Elbert Hubbard

“Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon.” – Pablo Picasso

“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.” – Emile Zola

“The function of art is to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.” – Anais Nin

“Art is the proper task of life.” – Friedrich Nietzsche