(Jonathan Nolan), In the evening I go up in the desert and spend hours watching the sun go down, just enjoying it, and every day I go out and watch it again. William Shakespeare Time is the best teacher Time is the wisest counselor of all. I want to grasp the intangible. Today these similarities lay hidden beneath urban complexity - audience, critics, economics, trivia - in a self-conscious world. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. (Samuel Goldwyn), All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that. (Gladys Taber), The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. (Denis Waitley), Today is a most unusual day, because we have never lived it before; we will never live it again; it is the only day we have. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me. (Faith Baldwin), There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened. “Painting is self-discovery. Jackson Pollock. (Ralph Waldo Emerson), Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. Art inspires, produces an unwillingness to settle for what we have and a desire for something better. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. An abstraction. Hasan Al-Jarrah April 15, 2020 At 8:01 am. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence. (Ann Manry Kenyon), Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. (Henri Bergson), Time, time - that is our greatest master! (Toni Onley), The past, the present and the future are all part of the same continuum. (Jiddu Krishnamurti), But our minds are bound to the yardstick of yesterday, today and tomorrow, and with that yardstick we try to inquire into the unknown, to measure that which is not measurable. Oct 2, 2013 - Quotes about art, creativity, and art education. (Horace), While we're talking, time will have meanly run on: pick today's fruits, no relying on the future in the slightest. It varies with a man's breadth, with his heart. After all, there's a reason art, writing, and music is used in therapeutic modalities. (Osho), If we but give it time, a work of art 'can rap and knock and enter our souls' and re-align us – all our molecules – to make us whole again. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. 22. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. (Mario Andretti), One thing you can't recycle is wasted time. (Henri Bergson), Time is invention and nothing else. Time bares it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Those of us with never enough time could go and withdraw extra hours. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. (Henry David Thoreau), Artists need to spend time with their work – to get to know it. (Sharon Knettell), In the context of time, an artist may be seen as a force starting a movement, a flash that died quickly, or just some guy trying to pay his mortgage. (Augustus Caesar), We need not destroy the past. (Catherine Drinker), Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed. The physical decay or natural wear and tear of the materials used does not in the least detract from the visual appeal, rather it adds to it. Time waits for no man. (Robert Half), Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day. (Reverend Worthington), Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. (Vincent van Gogh), Creativity exists in the present moment. (Charles Baudelaire), We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. (Jean-Francis Le Saint), Learning how to operate, a soul figures to take time. It's your time. (Josy Hilkes Britton), How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? You can stop it or stretch it or loop it around. Be careful how you spend your time - you can't get it back. (Mary de Loyht-Arendt), In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking. (Peter Shaffer), Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough. (Voltaire), I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning. (Sammy Davis, Jr.), On either side in Time, there's nothing similar to Now, only memories (the past) or imaginings (the future). Time is indispensable. (Jim Rohn), We can no more afford to spend major time on minor things than we can to spend minor time on major things. (Irwin Greenberg), - on The Manhattan Project...Our chances of putting it over on time are not much better than one in four. (Willem de Kooning), The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion. It is necessary that the artist have this sense of timing, that he or she respect... periods of receptivity as part of the mystery of creativity and creation. (Andrew Wyeth), The factor of time is very vital in life. (Carolyn Henderson), -Steppenwolf...Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke. But it is such fun. (Theodore Roethke), Don't let yesterday use up too much of today. – Horace. If I don't have a show or a gallery deadline, I impose it upon myself. (Thomas Edison), Time narrows or expands according to how we approach it. Life is appreciated more in the pauses. Sign up to the twice-weekly letter and join our art community. Join thousands of others and get the twice-weekly art letter.Subscription is free. But this blade of grass leads him to draw every plant and then the seasons, the wide aspects of the countryside, then animals, then the human figure. (Kjerkius Gennius, 36BC), Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration. (T'ao Ch'ien), Time is a river without banks. I am striving. (Stephen King), We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right. I lose interest if it doesn't. (Rabindranath Tagore), I like to work quickly; I never like to waste any time. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose. (Lori McNee), My hold on the past and the future is precarious and my possession of my own time is always postponed until a stage when I may fully understand it, yet this stage can never be reached, since it would be one more moment bounded by the horizon of its future, and requiring in its turn, further developments in order to be understood. The hours fly by. (Jonathan Nolan), Time is an absurdity. These are our choices. (Amy Poehler), It is a commonplace among artists and children at play that they're not aware of time or solitude while they're chasing their vision. You mustn't go too fast. (Betty Jean Billups), Lord save us from the time management police. In fact, it would be a great idea for them to find one or more quotes that truly speak to them and then create their own work of art using those words: “Every child is an artist; the problem is staying an artist when you grow up” – Pablo Picasso What, has it already been twenty years, already forty years that we are together? (Taisen Deshimaru), Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire. (Helena P. Blavatsky), Every noon as the clock hands arrive at twelve, I want to tie the two arms together, / And walk out of the bank carrying time in bags. We should all value it. “The work of art is a scream of freedom.” – Christo, 9. (William Morris Hunt), It takes 25 years to learn to draw, one hour to learn to paint. – Pablo Picasso. (Yann Martel), It is necessary for the birthing process to begin to move in its own organic time. My goodness how the time has flewn. (Pema Chodron), When I die and go to heaven, I want to spend the first million years painting – so I can get to the bottom of the subject. (Robert Genn), Mensura tempus - Measure time. (Joaquin Sorolla), I see that time divided is never long, and that regularity abridges all things. “What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. Except for summer - summer never begins early enough and always ends too soon. Those who were first might well be last. (Marcus Aurelius), Live more and more in the present, which is ever beautiful and stretches away beyond the limits of the past and the future. (Jean Giono), Some things...arrive on their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever. (John Updike), Time is our element, not a mistaken invader. Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend. Art takes time. These personal and emotional experiences are hard to express in language. It's not what you see that is art; art is the gap.” – Marcel Duchamp, Nu descendant un escalier - Marcel Duchamp, 1912 (conservé au Philadelphia Museum of Art) by Marcel DuchampThe Cinémathèque française, 6. (Phillips Brooks), Everything that ever happened is still happening. We have, and always had, all the time there is. (George Orwell), They spend their time mostly looking forward to the past. (Doug Larson), Let this time heal your wounds / Let it happen / Let it go. Paul Harvey. (Dan Sullivan), Treat every moment as your last. (Marlene Dumas), Good artists – those who retain their integrity and have grit – are usually successful in time. Art is knowing which ones to keep. Reply. (Alice Munro), The act of forgiveness is the act of returning to present time. (Shunryu Suzuki), We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. (Peter Drucker), Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. “Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” – Edgar Degas, The Ballet Class (1871 - 1874) by Edgar DegasMusée d’Orsay, Paris, 10. (Author unknown), What counts is not the number of hours you put in, but how much you put in the hours. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future. (Samuel Smiles), When I'm painting outdoors, I only have time to think about what I'm saying, not how I'm saying it. 80 Inspirational Art Quotes. I also create content of quotes and motivational lines. View the list In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these. (Ralph Waldo Emerson), Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry. (Franz Kafka), To paint fast is to start with one side of your mind, let go and let the other side do it. You can't own it, but you can use it. So go ahead and find inspiration, create something amazing, and contribute to the beauty of this world in your own unique way! (Jack Madson), Time is only an idea. 42. I have no concept of time, I have no concept of dates. Salvador Dali: Spread Your Wings. Always Recall Like. (Meher Baba), No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a hundred years before the thing begins to sort itself out. (Charles Baudelaire), The message across time from the painted bison and the carved ivory seal speaks not of the differences between the makers of that art and ourselves, but of the similarities. (Doug Coupland), Time has convinced me of one thing: Television is for appearing on – not for looking at. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of life getting his living. My painting does not come from the easel. Make the most of today. Color, any color, lasts a second, sometimes 3 or 4 minutes at most... (Claude Monet), I haven't many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving something worthwhile in the end, something if possible that will satisfy me. I only expect to live about a hundred years. And, so is tomorrow. Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. There is nothing there. (Benjamin Franklin), Everything in life seems geared for speed so I think it would be easy to miss one's life altogether. This page has been created to bring information and inspiration to our readers. (Elizabeth Bowen), First God created time; then God created man that man might, in the course of time, perfect himself; then God decided that He'd better create eternity. I can control the flow of paint; there is no accident. (Will Rogers), Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it, and spend it rather than invest it. Music takes time to listen to and ends, writing takes time and ends, movies end, ideas and even sculpture take time. (Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres), It does take a long time and a lot of paint to become our own artist. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen. (Anonymous), Time is the best teacher; unfortunately it kills all its students. It all has to be done at once. It is thinking about him and Ryder, among others, that partly makes me feel so awful to send away a 'half-baked' painting. You've got to get it right, until it looks like it does in your mind. As a kid, you waste so much of it. Feb 20, 2017 - Explore Say Hello to Fine Arts! They may also be provocative and thought-provoking. (Duke Ellington), Adopt the pace of nature. (Nathaniel Hawthorne), Before the end of Time will be the end of History. (Mary Oliver), The more successful paintings just fall off the brush. (Gail Godwin), People ask me how long it took to make a work. There are artists who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their art … (Jan Denise), Time is not a line, but a series of now points. It's night before it's afternoon. I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now. psychologically, and so painting has no time for brush. And that's why when one has become a forgiving person, and has managed to let go of the past, what they've really done is they've shifted their relationship with time. (Marc Chagall), There is a time for work, and a time for love. (Lao Tzu), The clock is running. (Lou Reed), You've got to be a fool to want to stop the march of time. Pleasure consumes us. (Geoffrey Chaucer), There's time enough, but none to spare. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” ~Scott Adams. “Creativity takes courage.” Henri Matisse 3. Every good artist paints what he is.” – Jackson Pollock, 13. (Aristotle), -Thirteen Reasons Why...You can't stop the future. (George S. Clason), I spend 60 percent of my time planning, 60 percent with people, and all other duties are completed with whatever time is left. (Douglas Adams), We cannot waste time. You can get more money, but you can't get more time. I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them. 60 Inspiring Art Quotes: 1. (Stendhal), You have no idea, unless you have tried it, how endlessly long is a summer's day, that you measure out only by hunger, and bring to an end only when you are drowsy. There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them. (John Burroughs), Death is a challenge. I never let myself get in that situation. (George Burns), Even though it may only take one hour to produce a great work of art, there are years of nurtured vision and feeling in every stroke. (Anonymous), Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time. They are not shaped long, in the manner of things which lead to ends – arrow, road, man's life on earth. (Karl Lagerfeld), Nothing puzzles me more than time and space, and yet nothing puzzles me less, for I never think about them. 's board "Quotes About Art and Artists", followed by 229 people on Pinterest. From painting to movies, fashion and sculpture, Dali mastered them all. Thomas Merton; Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together. (CJ Rider), Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade! (Caroline Myss), I work best with a deadline. One hour... plus 35 years. (Paul Klee), Make the most of today. Pablo Picasso quotes to expand your mind. (Austin Dobson), Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time. How did it get so late so soon? “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” ― Thomas Merton , No Man Is an Island (Roloff Beny), I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours. (Leo Buscaglia), -quoted by Suetonius, first century AD...Hasten slowly. These 18 quotes about the important of art illustrate why we need the arts now more than ever. (David Bayles, Ted Orland), The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new. I have hundreds of projects that I want to do but I am running out of time. Last Updated on March 6, 2021. (Pericles), The house clock, place certain there at the bottom of things, strikes the half hour dry and null. (Leoni Duff), Haste is a poor counselor. There is only the Reality. Let us choose. (E. J. Hughes), -to Max Stern...Leonardo's Mona Lisa sure would have lost out if he had spent only 2 of the 4 or 5 years he took to complete it. On finding inspiration: Art Quotes - BrainyQuote. Today you are a thread, a drop, a slender light scurrying like a hare towards thickets of concave night. If you like to do things in a slow and steady way, don't let others make you feel as if you have to race. (Marcus Aurelius), Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. Charles Caleb Colton (Bernard Berenson), Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. (Martina Navratilova), Time, you beckon. (Teresa Amabile), Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures. The only thing that matters is this moment. (Author unknown), -A Month of Sundays, 1975Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings. Being able to block out and be inside oneself for just 2 minutes can be enough to inspire and relax. Reply . And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. (Paul Harvey), Only occasional hours meet our full requirements. You can't find it anywhere else. Oftentimes discoveries are made through the back door. (John Dewey), Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time. (Robert Louis Stevenson), Each moment is a place you've never been. Jackson Pollock. (Pablo Neruda), Sometimes I lose a whole morning waiting on journalists and other people who look for me. (Nelson Mandela), -Life of Pi, 2001...Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. Why? This is why I don't believe that a painting - although I've been accused of it many times now - can be truly topical. (Andrew Juniper), The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite. If you want time you must make it. Tomorrow is a mystery. Just the moment you’ve got Fine Art into the language, who is Joshua Reynolds, knighted in 1769: It is an idea that subsists only in the mind, the sight never beheld it, nor has the hand expressed it, it is an idea residing in the breast of the artist, which he is always labouring to impart and which he dies at the last without imparting ie art is conceptual ” You have to get ready and decide to jump up and do it; you build yourself up (Gary John Gresl), Everything in life, I have come to conclude, is about 15 minutes too long. Art is never finished, only abandoned. Translate your good intentions into actual deeds. (Thornton Wilder), You should put time into learning your craft. Jackson Pollock Art Quotes. “Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.” – Leonardo da Vinci, Por Vinci Leonardo DaLIFE Photo Collection, 12. (Tennessee Williams), Time-wasting activities are the dessert. (John Lithgow), -Every Day Art, volume 35, Spring, 1957I paint a mountain - I think of its age - the strata formations or what grows on the mountain. (Ralph Waldo Emerson), So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours. (Tennessee Williams), Time is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition. (Scott Michael Durski), Since the well-known victory over the hare by the tortoise, the descendants of the tortoise think themselves miracles of speed. Theophrastus. (Eileen Phillips), The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. We have time to write the minute we are willing to write badly, to chase a dead end, to scribble a few words, to write for the hell of it instead of for the perfect and polished result. (Latin proverb), Anyone who has spent hours painting with intense focus suddenly realizes that hours have passed, and it may have only seemed like minutes. (John Donne), Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness. / When you see through this one instant, / you see through the one who sees. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton), Everything that goes up must come down. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them. Hasan Al-Jarrah April 15, 2020 At 8:03 am. “A picture is a poem without words.” – Horace, Albion Rose (1794-1796) by William BlakeBritish Museum, 3. (Douglas Lockwood), The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. Here are 13 beautiful, inspirational and moving quotes that will make you fall in love with art all over again, from Picasso to Pollock. The method of painting is the natural growth out of a need. By this age do that; by that age do better. (Samuel Beckett), No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today. (Michael Leboeuf), A day spent wasting time, that you enjoyed, (Victor Borge), -A New Refutation of Time, 1946 (trans. (Henry David Thoreau), A man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. You can travel back and forth by living in the moment and paying attention. Time wasted can never conduce to money well managed. (Woody Allen), The bad news is time flies. Enjoy and share this collection of positive quotes about the benefits of art from a wide variety of artists and leaders who share our beliefs and vision — that art is a catalyst for positive change. an hour or less, the knowledge of that limit really messes me up; I make mistakes, try to rush key decisions etc... so I don't do it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away. It's terrible how the light runs out. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. One day at a time. (Plato), You can control time. (Tove Jansson), Time is more precious than money. (Hal Borland), Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day. (H. Jackson Brown, Jr.), Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got. (Lucinda Williams), I didn't go to the moon, I went much further - for time is the longest distance between two places. (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino or Raphael), There's only X amount of time. (Eleanor Blair), Eternity is in love with the creations of time. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now. (James Broughton), Don't say you don't have enough time. Creativity quotes to inspire you to be true to yourself. Pericles Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn. Had the painting painted itself or had I a hand in it? See more ideas about creativity quotes, quotes, art quotes. (Luc Tuymans), -in a letter to Henry H. Rogers, Sept. 24, 1894...I have damaged my intellect trying to imagine why a man should want to invent a repeating clock, and how another man could be found to lust after it and buy it. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by. It's a still place. (Jeff Davidson), The time necessary to learn all of the rules for effective living now exceeds your lifetime. (Jane Bryant Quinn), It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth. (Bryan Dunleavy), Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years. “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, Purple Hills Ghost Ranch - 2 / Purple Hills No II (1934) by Georgia O'KeeffeGeorgia O'Keeffe Museum, 5. 21. (Natalie Goldberg), We have all passed a lot of water since then. (P. K. Page), Time is a slippery concept, and we are often wrong about it... All too often we find ourselves looking in the right places at the wrong times. 387 art quotes about Time found | Share this page of quotes about Time on Facebook Time is an illusion. (Henry S. Haskins), Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind. (Jim Carrey), Think about the photo before and after, never during. (Ambrose Bierce), hurry, n. The dispatch of bunglers. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves. (Crawford H. Greenewalt), Undoubtedly the Cosmos has created many devices to measure Time. Absolutely free, no strings. D'Angelo), Presenting the most time generation in history: Ours! (Sheila Psaledas), The shortest recorded period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain. (Igor Stravinsky), Getting results doesn't take much time at all. (Norman Augustine), Limit time to the present. The place you were ten seconds ago has vanished, and what is the place ten seconds ahead? (Mark Strand), Hurry! 45 art quotes about Timeliness found | Share this page of quotes about Timeliness on Facebook There are always deadlines I have to meet. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. (Peter Gzowski), Having respect for your own time will assure respect for the other person's time.