The Quote of the Day

'I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for,' said Georgia O'Keeffe. 'Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in,' said Amy Lowell. '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,' said Picasso. 'All art requires courage,' said Anne Tucker. 'Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail,' said Theodore Dreiser. 'Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do,' said Edgar Degas. 'Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art,' said Wynetka Ann Reynolds. 'It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work,' said Henry Moore. 'Pictures must not be too picturesque,' said Ralph Waldo Emerson. 'Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better,' said André Gide. '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,' said Fran Lebowitz. 'Great art picks up where nature ends,' said Marc Chagall. 'When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college - that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared at me, incredulous, and said, "You mean they forget?",' said Howard Ikemoto. 'What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit,' said John Updike. 'The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life,' said Henry Miller. 'Erm,' said the artist of this blog, interrupted by her 5-year-old son who was refusing to go to sleep, 'art is something you need so badly but don't realise until you see it.'