Entries Tagged 'Quotes' ↓

For me. Duh.

“The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor.”
– Aristotle

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.

“Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.”
– Harry S. Truman

On variations

“Self-plagiarism is style.”
– Alfred Hitchcock

Wright now

“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

vetruvian man leonardo da vinci

“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

“You must have an idea of what you are going to do. But it should be a vague idea.”
–Pablo Picasso

Yin and Yang

“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

“Let the disciples be damned. They’re not interesting. Only the masters matter. Those who create.”
–Pablo Picasso