Art, Talent, Poetry, Imagination, Creativity, Passion

An Art is anything done so well that it takes on more than ordinary significance.

Any talent you may have is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. (Stella Adler)

Art is Man's nature. Nature is God's art. (James Bailey)

When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college - that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared at me, incredulous, and said, "You mean they forget?" (Howard Ikemoto)

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie. (Agnes de Mille)

Dance is the hidden language of the soul. (Martha Graham

Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can. (Owen Meredith)

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. (Pablo Picasso)

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. (John W. Gardner)

When you hear a voice inside you say 'you cannot paint' then by all means paint, and the voice will be silenced. (Vincent Van Gogh)

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman. (Wallace Stevens)

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. (Andre Gide)

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

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. (Tom Stoppard)

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. (Pablo Picasso)

Poetry should... strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance. (John Keats)

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it. (Danny Kaye)

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. (Emile Zola)

The poet's fate is here in emblem shown,

He asked for bread and he received a stone.

(Samuel Wesley, "On Butler's Monument")

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since. (Salvador Dali)

Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid. (Jules Feiffer)

Art is a jealous mistress, and, if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

I have... a terrible need... shall I say the word?... of religion. Then I go out at night and paint the stars. (Vincent van Gogh)

A good painter need not give a name to his picture, a bad one must. (Polish Proverb)

PAINTING, n. The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic. (Ambrose Bierce)

The world is but a canvas to the imagination. (Henry David Thoreau)

Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion. (Martha Graham)

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. (Steve Martin)

God is really another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He just goes on trying other things. (Pablo Picasso)

No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business. (Mikhail Baryshnikov)

Do it big, do it right and do it with style. (Fred Astaire)

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul. (Vincent Van Gogh)

The very impulse to write, I think, springs from an inner chaos crying out for order, for meaning, and that meaning must be discovered in the process of writing or the work lies dead as it is finished. (Arthur Miller)