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Quotations to inspire Creative Artists

Posted by admin on May 1st, 2010

Quotations to inspire Creative ArtistsIf you think that the “hidden artist” just needs the right inspiration to come out and deliver before the world, this blog on quotations to inspire creative artists is just meant for you. Read on!

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

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time. - Jean Cocteau

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

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. - Salvador Dali

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

Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul. - Louis Kahn

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product. – Edward Steichen

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. – Isaac Bashevis Singer

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse. – Francis Bacon

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for. – Georgia O’Keeffe

I’ve been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good. – Barbra Streisand

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Creativity and Art Quotations

Posted by admin on April 22nd, 2010

Creativity and Art QuotationsIf spending hours looking at antiques and collectibles is your style of life then this compilation of creativity and art quotations would be more than just useful and interesting to you.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. – Albert Camus

A great artist is always before his time or behind it. - George Edward Moore

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires. – Hedy Lamarr

A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I’ve been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light. – Henri Matisse

Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. – Al Capp

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds. – Henry Moore

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. – Oscar Wilde

An artist is always alone – if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness. – Henry Miller

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have. – Andy Warhol

Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. – Andre Gide

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed. – Kahlil Gibran

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. – John Ruskin

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Inspiring Fine Art Quotes

Posted by admin on April 20th, 2010

Inspiring Fine Art QuotesIf you are looking for quotes on the subject of art then this compilation of inspiring fine art quotes would surely be of an interest to you. Read these motivating quotations to think and act above the rest!

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. – William Faulkner

We all know that Art is not truth.  Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand.  The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies. – Pablo Picasso

Very few people possess true artistic ability.  It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort.  If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass. – Fran Lebowitz

The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional.  Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art. – Kenneth Tynan

As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself.  What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language. – Pablo Picasso

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things. – Pablo Picasso

What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself – life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose. - Willa Cather

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Quotations on Classic Collectibles

Posted by admin on April 15th, 2010

Quotations on Classic <b>Collectibles</b>
If you are looking for creative and interesting quotations on classic collectibles then this compilation of collectible quotations will surely be of interest to you.

“The collection has a girly edge – but in the end it is nasty.” – Miuccia Prada

“We’ve got to collect wins. They have a great cushion over there and we don’t.” – Alex Rodriguez

“One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.” - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I was always fascinated, even as a child, by antiques and ancient times. I always felt I should have been born in the 17th or 18th century. They really had a big stone castle with authentic furniture. – Margaret O’Brien

“It’s a miracle to be able to bring together a great museum building, a great collection, great landscape, and then great educational, cultural facilities, and bring it all together, and open it up to the public free of charge.” – Michael Brand

“It’s kind of a tough question. The marketplace for this type of collectible is very volatile.” – Michael Schwartz

There are not only more people collecting, there are more people collecting for the wrong reasons, basically as the latest get rich quick scheme. They buy art like lottery tickets. – Mary Boone

“Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion-picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word ”collectible” as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success.” – Fran Lebowitz

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Collectible Quotations – True Source of Inspiration

Posted by admin on April 1st, 2010

Collectible Quotations – True Source of InspirationWant to get “inspired” by beautiful thoughts in the form of collectible quotations? This is the right place where you can easily get access to inspiring collectible quotes. Find endless reasons to continue your journey of unique collections.

It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it –just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore. – Albert Camus

The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily. No great work has ever been based on hatred and contempt. On the contrary, there is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom of each person who has known and loved it. – Albert Camus

Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art. – Angela Carter

Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. – Al Capp

Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. – Willa Cather

The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture. – Raymond Chandler

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Inspiring Quotations for Collectors

Posted by admin on March 30th, 2010

Inspiring Quotations for Collectors
If you are an admirer of antiques and collectibles and looking for inspiring collectible quotations then this blog comprising of beautiful collection quotes would surely be of an interest to you. Read on!

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother’s womb. – Jean Arp

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane. – Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno

All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up. – James Baldwin

The man who can but sketch his purpose beforehand in words is regarded as a wonder, and every artist and writer possesses that faculty. But gestation, fruition, the laborious rearing of the offspring, putting it to bed every night full fed with milk, embracing it anew every morning with the inexhaustible affection of a mother’s heart, licking it clean, dressing it a hundred times in the richest garb only to be instantly destroyed; then never to be cast down at the convulsions of this headlong life till the living masterpiece is perfected which in sculpture speaks to every eye, in literature to every intellect, in painting to every memory, in music to every heart! –this is the task of execution. The hand must be ready at every moment to work in obedience to the mind. – Honore de Balzac, Cousin Bette

The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute. – Charles Baudelaire

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Collectible Quotations – Inspiration for Collectors

Posted by admin on March 27th, 2010

Collectible Quotations _ Inspiration for Collectors
If you are into the world of antiques and collectibles and ready to move on to the next level of collections, this blog with interesting and inspiring quotations would surely be appreciated by you. Compiled from the web, these motivating quotes on collectibles are a must for every collector without any doubt.

As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn’t make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting — the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near. – Saul Bellow

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion. – Walter Benjamin

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person. – Professor Blackie

The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal. – Andre Breton

In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important. – Luis Bunuel

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Quotations for Collectible Lovers – Inspiration come easy!

Posted by admin on March 25th, 2010

Quotations for Collectible Lovers _ Inspiration come easy!
Now that you have decided to make it real big in the world of antiques and collectibles, it is time for you to get some inspiration in the form of motivating and unique collectible quotations. We have compiled some of the most interesting quotes on collections so that you can easily enjoy them all. Read on!

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up. – Cyril Connolly

Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs. – Charlotte Saunders Cushman

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation. – Angela Y. Davis

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential –the imagination. – Lawrence Durrell

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us. – Guy Debord

Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing –to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass. – William Faulkner

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Collectibles and Antiques’ Quotations

Posted by admin on March 9th, 2010

Collectibles and Antiques’ QuotationsIf collectibles and antiques’ quotations impress you then this comprehensive collection of collectible quotes will surely be of interest to you.

“When I started collecting, it was a lot harder. You could get comics at newsstands or grocery stores maybe, but if you missed an issue, your best chance was to send away to the dealers in New York who advertised in the back of the comics.” - John Hitchcock

“Collecting, apparently, is a lifelong obsession.” - Miyeko Murase

“We need more agility in inspection, collection and laboratory analysis, since we’ve had positive results on the farms that have eliminated the sick plants upon detection,” - Cicero

“Definitely, this is the best we’ve played as a collective unit. I think we were all on the same page this week and we were all going hard as one unit and swarming to the ball wherever it was.” – Milton Harris

“It is a wonderful collection for a museum like ours to have. When we started it was all we could do to get one room filled.” – Mike Jones

“We just really had to come back and kind of bring everything back and just collect and just kind of reflect on what we could have done better and how we were going to change it. I think that two-week span where we didn’t play, we really just concentrated on how we’re going to beat any team that we would face in this tournament.” - Mistie Williams

It may stink like me, but that’s what makes it so collectible! – Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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World of Collectible Quotes

Posted by admin on February 27th, 2010

World of Collectible QuotesIf you have a flair for collectibles and antiques’ quotes, this compilation of collectible quotations will surely be of an interest to you.

I don’t buy art in order to leave a mark or to be remembered; clutching at immortality is of zero interest to anyone sane. – Charles Saatchi

I collect antiques. Why? Because they’re beautiful. – Broderick Crawford

Warhol turned to photographs of stars, as the Renaissance turned to antiquities, to find images of gods. – David Sylvester

There are not only more people collecting, there are more people collecting for the wrong reasons, basically as the latest get rich quick scheme. They buy art like lottery tickets. – Mary Boone

Lots of ambitious work by young artists ends up in a dumpster after its warehouse debut. So an unknown artist’s big glass vitrine holding a rotting cow’s head covered by maggots and swarms of buzzing flies may be pretty unsellable. Until the artist becomes a star. Then he can sell anything he touches. – Charles Saatchi

Nobody can give you advice after you’ve been collecting for a while. If you don’t enjoy making your own decisions, you’re never going to be much of a collector anyway. – Charles Saatchi

“Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion-picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word ”collectible” as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success.” – Fran Lebowitz

I was always fascinated, even as a child, by antiques and ancient times. I always felt I should have been born in the 17th or 18th century. They really had a big stone castle with authentic furniture. – Margaret O’Brien

Even if you have $20,000 to buy an item, you still try to get a good price at antique stores. I collect furniture, rugs, paintings, frames. It’s my hobby to go around to shops and markets. – Ursula Andress

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