My favourite quotes about Art.

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1.       Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.                         Scott Adams

2.       Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

        -Thomas Merton

3.       Every artist was first an amateur.                                                                                                    -Ralph Waldo Emerson

4.       Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

-Oscar Wilde

5.       Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

-Pablo Picasso

6.       Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

-Twyla Tharp

7.       Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

-Edgar Degas

8.       Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

-Khalil Gibran

9.       One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

-Bob Marley

10.   I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.

-Adele

11.   If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

-Richard M. Nixon

12.   Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

-Thomas Carlyle

13.   Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

-Coco Chanel

14.   This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it.

-Isaac Mizrahi

15.   Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

-George Carlin

16.   Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

- Voltaire

17.   Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

-Carl Sandburg

18.   Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.

-Martha Graham

19.   I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind.

-Robert Fulghum

20.   With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.

-Johnny Depp

21.   Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.

-Rodney Dangerfield

22.   All I have to say is basically if performing, singing, acting ,and dancing is what you want to do, then you just have to do it - no matter where it is.

-Ariana Grande

23.   Photograph the world as it is. Nothing's more interesting than reality.

-Mary Ellen Mark

24.   The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery 

-Francis Bacon

25.   Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

- Pablo Picasso

26.   I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free

- Michelangelo

Amalia Boura