Gombrich Art Quotes

#1. [I]t's the child writer who has figured out, early on, that writing is about saving your soul.

Betsy Lerner

#2. Your love is a kind place, and I don't deserve to stay.

J. Limbu

#3. I wasn't aware of Green Arrow as a kid. My thing growing up was wrestling.

Stephen Amell

#4. But really, Marilla, one can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?

L.M. Montgomery

#5. If you get a ticket, you can go to traffic school, and they make you watch movies for like eight hours: head-on collisions, mannequins flying out the windshield. At the end of the movie, the instructor goes, 'Now what have we learned by this?' Never let a mannequin drive your car.

Robert Schimmel

#6. During the days of my youth, critics and art-lovers resorted freely to this term of abuse. Even some of the most renowned Old Masters were also pilloried as having manufactured insipid and sugary paintings that were offensive to good taste.

Ernst Gombrich

#7. There really is no such thing as Art. There are only artists.

E.H. Gombrich

#8. All art is image making and all image making is the creation of substitutes.

Ernst Gombrich

#9. We cracked up together, which was necessary, because she loved me again.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#10. I have no permanent enemies - only people I have yet to persuade.

Richard Lamm

#11. I would never do 'Stardust Memories' because I don't particularly like that kind of movie - that would be why I wouldn't do that.

Adam McKay

#12. Art does not copy nature - it suggests it.

Ernst Gombrich

#13. The mystery existing between an open moment and a person's preparedness reveals the truth.

Masatoshi Nakayama

#14. You have to enjoy playing. The old-timers did, and that's one reason why their music is a lasting music. I feel that I play jazz to entertain the listener, and you just can't do that unless you yourself are entertained at the same time.

Barry Harris

#15. One never finishes learning about art. There are always new things to discover.

E.H. Gombrich

#16. We don't have spittoons on street corners any more. It's no longer acceptable to spit on the street.

Harvey V. Fineberg