“The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor.”
– Aristotle
Entries Tagged 'Quotes' ↓
For me. Duh.
For the picking
“We don’t grow older. We grow riper.”
– Pablo Picasso
Fictional Eyes
“Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.”
– Philip K. Dick
Horizontal Canvas
“On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.”
– Jackson Pollock
Master class
“I am still learning.”
– Michelangelo
True, man. So true.
May 24th, 2008 — Quotes
“Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.”
– Harry S. Truman
On variations
“Self-plagiarism is style.”
– Alfred Hitchcock
Wright now
May 17th, 2008 — Quotes
“The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.”
– Frank Lloyd Wright
The envelope
“I am always doing something I can’t do in order that I may learn how to do it.”
–Pablo Picasso
Hypothesis/Thesis/Antithesis/Synthesis

“Art is the antithesis of science. They are fundamentally different. The scientific method proceeds from the left hemisphere of the brain, moving methodically, each step based upon the data from the preceding step. Art emanates from the right hemisphere and, not constrained by logic, is propelled by intuition and imaginative association. Yet while their individual characteristics vary greatly, art and science are essentially the same. Each is a process involving the observation of phenomena in order to describe and understand the world around us.”
–John Langdon
Grey matters
April 30th, 2008 — Art, Quotes
“You must have an idea of what you are going to do. But it should be a vague idea.”
–Pablo Picasso
Yin and Yang
April 25th, 2008 — Art, Quotes
“In the act of creation, a man brings together two facets of reality and, by discovering a likeness between them, makes them one.”
–Jacob Bronowski
Master matters
April 15th, 2008 — Art, Quotes
“Let the disciples be damned. They’re not interesting. Only the masters matter. Those who create.”
–Pablo Picasso



