Fine Art Quotes

“As a photographer you have a deep love for light, life and yourself. You know that the eyes of love aren’t blind, they are wide open. Only when your eye, heart and soul shine brighter than the sun, you realize how ordinary it is to love the beautiful, and how beautiful it is to love the ordinary.”
― Marius Vieth

“Your most important gear is your eye, heart and soul.”
― Marius Vieth

“Before, I could only guess of who I was. Now, thanks to my art, I know who I am”
― Luhraw

“Fine art is the discipline of breaking rules.”
― M.B. Dallocchio

“Quality sells itself. No hype needed.”
― Brandi L. Bates, Red Flags

“Kicking an art addiction is a heck of a lot harder than going sober.”
― Sol Luckman, Musings from a Small Island: Everything under the Sun

“When I am doing photography that I feel free. I just like tell you a story every took to you.”
― Denny Wiranda

“Many times someone giving you advice is just trying to convince themselves of said advice, this is my advice to you and me." - Vic Stah Milien”
― Vic Stah Milien

“The economy functions strictly and instrumentally according to iron conventions, imposed unequally on nations by the great transnational economic bodies; it establishes hierarchies of wealth and power; it enforces on the vast majority of the world's inhabitants a timetabled and regulated working life, while consoling them with visions of cinematic lives given meaning through adventure and coherent narrative (in which heroes make their lives free precisely by breaking the rules), and with plaintive songs of rebellion or love.”
― Julian Stallabrass, Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction

“But I had no doubt that whatever happened, I’d be fine.”
― Tim S. Grover, Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness

“Magritte presents ordinary objects in impossible contexts. He challenges us to consider our place in relation to the world: our own humanity.”
― Liz Rideal, How to Read Paintings

“As a photographer, I understand the natural curiosity to know the technical side of how
an image was made, but it’s important to remember–cameras and equipment do not make
art–artists do. Allow the images to move you without considering external factors.”
― Tyler Max Redding, Igniting The Darkness: A Collection of Light Painting Art

“This book is dedicated to the ones who know the darkness all too well,
and persevere regardless. The light will always return–just hold on.”
― Tyler Max Redding, Igniting The Darkness: A Collection of Light Painting Art

“There's no difference between pulp fiction and highbrow fiction, one is as good as the other, the only difference is the aura they have, and that's determined by the people who read the stuff, not by the book itself. There's no such thing as 'the book itself.”
― Karl Ove Knausgård, Min kamp 5

“Imaginative writings can lead to action, but they do not have to. They belong to the realm of fine art.

A work of fine art is "fine" not because it is "refined," but because it is an end (finis, Latin, means end) in itself. It does not move toward some result beyond itself. It is, as Emerson said of beauty, its own excuse for being.”
― Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren

“Photography has saved me from going down, a completely different road. I can imagine if I wasn't photography, that I don't know where I would be today”
― Denny Wiranda

“If you're wondering what the difference is, well fine art is like art that exists for its own sake. The Thing that fine art does is itself. Design is art that does something else. It's more like visual engineering.”
― Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

“Fine art won't fill me up, y'know.”
― Taiyo Matsumoto, Cats of the Louvre

“Photography is the eighth fine art.”
― Biju Karakkonam, Nature and Wildlife Photographer

“No art is worth endangering your health and well-being.”
― Olivia Jaimes, Nancy: A Comic Collection

“A loving survey of an artist’s varied career.”
--Kirkus Reviews”
― Tonia Shimin

“…as long as we seek to understand and express the value and significance of human experience as such, there will be a place for artists such as Shimin.” 
 Sam Ben-Meir”
― Tonia Shimin, The Art of Symeon Shimin

“Art is a visual language, not one of words, and so conclusions about artworks based on verbal or written communication are parallel but not a true equivalent.”
― Liz Rideal, How to Read Paintings

“Magritte presents ordinary objects in impossible contexts. He challenges us to our place in relation to the world: our own humanity.”
― Liz Rideal, How to Read Art: A Crash Course in Understanding and Interpreting Paintings

“Maybe art’s just a mode of escapism, but I’ll take that. It’s certainly a lot cheaper (not to mention safer) than heroin. You can smack me up with art any day.”
― Sol Luckman, Musings from a Small Island: Everything under the Sun

“Inks don’t forget. But with enough coaxing, occasionally they can be persuaded to forgive.”
― Sol Luckman, Musings from a Small Island: Everything under the Sun

“Within your soul is an inextinguishable light.”
― Tyler Max Redding, Igniting The Darkness: A Collection of Light Painting Art

“We go up to the convent. […] To the right of the entrance, some letters of a mysterious language are traced on the wall. We are told that Michetti invented this language for his personal use. Why? Prison inmates use a secret language among themselves so as not to be understood by their jailers. Obviously, Michetti considered humanity to be totally composed of jailers. […] To show how difficult it is to read this introductory epigraph, we are told that not even Gabriele d'Annunzio succeeded in interpreting it. […] "Who do you think you are — Dante Alighieri?" According to the most reliable version, the epigraph goes as follows: "Whoever brings evil into this house, may he be buried in shit.” It is a legitimate wish and one that, for all we know, Providence has thus far fulfilled. But why not express it in a clearer way? […] The visit to the convent continues. Rooms and corridors are of a virginal whiteness. In the hall where the convent elders assembled for their meals, the credenza has been replaced by a small harmonium. A painting by Sartorio in his "early manner" hangs over a console. [..] The painter has signed with only his initials, without realizing that the initials for “Giorgio Aristide Sartorio” spell the word "gas.”
― Alberto Savinio

“We go up to the convent. […] To the right of the entrance, some letters of a mysterious language are traced on the wall. We are told that Michetti invented this language for his personal use. Why? Prison inmates use a secret language among themselves so as not to be understood by their jailers. Obviously, Michetti considered humanity to be totally composed of jailers. […] To show how difficult it is to read this introductory epigraph, we are told that not even Gabriele d'Annunzio succeeded in interpreting it. […] "Who do you think you are — Dante Alighieri?" According to the most reliable version, the epigraph goes as follows: "Whoever brings evil into this house, may he be buried in shit.” It is a legitimate wish and one that, for all we know, Providence has thus far fulfilled. But why not express it in a clearer way? […] The visit to the convent continues. Rooms and corridors are of a virginal whiteness. In the hall where the convent elders assembled for their meals, the credenza has been replaced by a small harmonium. A painting by Sartorio in his "early manner" hangs over a console. [..] The painter has signed with only his initials, without realizing that the initials for “Giorgio Aristide Sartorio” spell the word "gas." [FROM: Speaking to Cleo (1939)]”
― Alberto Savinio

“We create art because language keeps failing”
― Abyssino