The world of antiques and collectibles is a beautiful one and if you want to make it more beautiful, you would surely like this compilation of interesting antiques and collectibles’ quotes. Read on!
”What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.” – John Ruskin
”You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.” – Rabindranath Tagore
”Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely. Light and colour, peace and hope, will keep them company to the end of the day.” – Winston Churchill
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget that errand.” – Woodrow Wilson
”I am always doing things I can’t do, that’s how I get to do them.” – Picasso
”An artist’s early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict. As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge. His failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that something else is.” – Bridget Riley
A work of art is a world in itself, reflecting senses and emotions of the artist’s world. – Hans Hofmann
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. – Andre Gide
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. – Amy Lowell
I don’t say everything, but I paint everything. – Picasso
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web. – Picasso
”The seed of your next art work lies embedded in the imperfections of your current piece. Such imperfections (or mistakes, if you’re feeling particularly depressed about them today) are your guides — valuable, reliable, objective, non-judgemental guides — to matters you need to reconsider or develop further.” - David Bayles and Ted Orland
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