Art(212)

"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."
Henry Moore

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

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

"The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude."
Friedrich Nietzsche

"If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it."
Anais Nin

"The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist."
Novalis

"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

"It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it."
Georgia O'Keeffe

"Sun-bleached bones were most wonderful against the blue - that blue that will always be there as it is now after all man's destruction is finished."
Georgia O'Keeffe

"Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them."
Thomas Paine