Best Short Art Quotes

#1. There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art. - Author: Anthony Trollope

#2. (Francis) Bacon's best known writings are his essays. They are loved for many reasons, such as their being so short. - Author: Richard Armour

#3. I graduated from high school with the art award and I had made a ton of short films, but it was before DVDs with director commentary. - Author: Kevin Munroe

#4. My credo is very short. Its first article is art - and its second is art - and its third is art! - Author: Mary Augusta Ward

#5. To the extent that the short story is an art, Sturgeon is the American short-story writer. - Author: Samuel R. Delany

#6. The short story ... is the most democratic of all the arts; anyone may tell a story, and if it is an absorbing one someone will listen. - Author: Hallie Burnett

#7. Some art are meant to cut short
stretching them unnecessary makes it dull. - Author: Yarro Rai

#8. Oikonomia is the science or art of efficiently producing, distributing, and maintaining concrete use values for the household and community over the long run. Chrematistics is the art of maximizing the accumulation by individuals of abstract exchange value in the form of money in the short run. - Author: Wendell Berry

#9. The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art. - Author: Joyce Maynard

#10. Life is short, but art is long. Sophocles is dead, but Oedipus lives on ... Each of us when we read a great piece of literature is a little more human than befor - Author: James W. Sire

#11. The process must be concealed from - non-existent for - the photographer, who by definition need think of the art in the taking and not in the making photographs ... In short, all that should be necessary to get a good picture is to take a good picture. - Author: Edwin Land

#12. Art indeed is long, but life is short. - Author: Andrew Marvell

#13. Life is short. Art long. Opportunity is fleeting. Expierience treacherous. Judgement difficult. - Author: Geoffrey Chaucer

#14. Life is short, the art is long, the problems pressing. - Author: Rene Dubos

#15. Where Picasso paints cause, Repin paints effect. Repin predigests art for the spectator and provides a short cut to the pleasure of art that is necessarily difficult in genuine art. Repin, or kitsch, is synthetic art. - Author: Clement Greenberg

#16. If you can remain with absolutely nothing to do for even a short period of time - that's a taste of freedom. Being busy is ok, not being busy is also ok. Not caring whether you're busy or not busy is really ok. - Author: Art Hochberg

#17. Life seemed too calm; people looked for unhappiness in art as one might look for a raw material in short supply. - Author: Ilya Ehrenburg

#18. Every few hundred years in Western history there occurs a sharp transformation. Within a few short decades, society - its worldview, its basic values, its social and political structures, its art, its key institutions - rearranges itself. We are currently living through such a time. - Author: Peter Drucker

#19. Think of the universal substance, of which thou has a very small portion; and of universal time, of which a short and indivisible interval has been assigned to thee; and of that which is fixed by destiny, and how small a part of it thou art - Author: Marcus Aurelius

#20. I began writing early - very, very early ... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals; I was involved in school plays; I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, 'Now I'm a writer.' I've always been a writer. - Author: Wole Soyinka

#21. Art is eternal, but life is short. - Author: Evelyn De Morgan

#22. Life is short, the art long. - Author: Hippocrates

#23. Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit, in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by anything short- livedor local, but abode by real and abiding traits. - Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

#24. There is no work of art that is without short cuts. - Author: Andre Gide

#25. The finest productions of human art are immensely short of the meanest work of Nature. The nicest artist cannot make a feather or the leaf of a tree. - Author: Thomas Reid

#26. Photoghraphic projects can be as short as an afternoon or as long as a lifetime. - Author: George Barr

#27. Life is too short to do the whole. - Author: Vincent Van Gogh

#28. Life is short, art is infinite. - Author: Oscar Wilde

#29. Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War II and was all but done for by 1960 (although visit any art school today and you'll find a would-be Willem de Kooning). - Author: Jerry Saltz

#30. Art is long and life is short. - Author: Christopher Bram

#31. The chief art of learning, as Locke has observed, is to attempt but little at a time. The widest excursions of the mind are made by short flights frequently repeated; the most lofty fabrics of science are formed by the continued accumulation of single propositions. - Author: Samuel Johnson

#32. Music is one of the highest art forms there is. It can define a life, change a life, or even safe a life, in just three short minutes. - Author: Alyson Noel