Top 38 Quotes About Shapes In Art
#1. Life did not take over the world by combat,
but by networking.
Lynn Margulis
#2. I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way ... things I had no words for.
Georgia O'Keeffe
#3. We love the imperfect shapes in nature and in the works of art, look for an intentional error as a sign of the golden key and sincerity found in true mastery.
Dejan Stojanovic
#4. It's just a combination of letters I liked. And when your whole art's based on the lettering you choose, you kinda figure out what ones work together. I just liked the shapes of the k, a, w, s. It has no meaning.
KAWS
#5. Art has a unique capacity to take one or other facet of the message and translate it into colors, shapes and sounds which nourish the intuition of those who look and listen.
Pope John Paul II
#6. Talent consists not in inventing shapes but in causing those that were invisible to emerge.
Muriel Barbery
#7. Because the new the stories we tell, the art we make, the rockets we build, will influence the future that shapes our present.
Natasha Tsakos
#8. Sometimes I'll drive around for months despair, nothing, nothing, then suddenly I will see something that seizes me ... a shape, a combination of shapes, a play of light or shadows and I send up a prayer because I know I have the germ of a picture.
Jeffrey Smart
#9. Art shouldn't be only the aesthetics we hang on the wall, but a dynamic to shape the society.
Genco Gulan
#10. Flora had also learned the degraded art of 'tasting' unread books, and now, whenever her skimming eye lit on a phrase about heavy shapes, or sweat, or howls or bedposts, she just put the book back on the shelf, unread.
Stella Gibbons
#11. Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light.
Franz Liszt
#13. Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.
Kahlil Gibran
#14. In the last 20 years of collecting contemporary African art, I have been bombarded by incredible shapes and colors that I now want to translate into clothes.
Jean Pigozzi
#15. Obviously, the intention was not to go back to images traditionally valued as worthy or holy images and shapes, but exactly the opposite; its main purpose had to be to realise as sacred art, anything which so far had been regarded as of little value and pitiful.
Antoni Tapies
#16. I make big objects that are simple, bright and clear, kind of ironic but hopefully funny because I love the shapes, and I get inspiration from toys and books, and I believe in art for everyone.
Florentijn Hofman
#17. Such is the strength of art, rough things to shape.
James Howell
#18. Art should look like art, trees and flowers and people, not weird shapes and splotches of color all smeared together.
Jennifer Estep
#19. One can compare art education to the solid foundation for a house - once it's built properly, it will hold any shape or form you will place on it.
Igor Babailov
#20. As water shapes its flow in accordance with the ground, so an army manages its victory in accordance with the situation of the enemy.
Sun Tzu
#21. The man of imagination who turns to art for release and fulfilment of his baby promises contends with the sky through the layers of demoded words and shapes.
William Carlos Williams
#22. Art and psychoanalysis give shape and meaning to life and that is why we adore them, but life as it is lived has no shape and meaning ...
Iris Murdoch
#24. There's a therapeutic aspect to all making, but the nature of working is to compress, condense, and shape stuff, not to just expunge it. It's not just an exorcism.
Art Spiegelman
#25. Art is magic, not logic. This craze for the logical spirit in irrational shape is part of the present harmful mania for uniformity ...
Edith Sitwell
#26. If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.
Franz Grillparzer
#27. The subtle hues of gold and yellow and the fresh greens and the pepper red seemed to spiral into a kaleidoscope of shapes and forms that made the tips of a person's toes tingle, so that some were inclined to remove their shoes in its presence.
Jeffry R. Halverson
#28. When I have a creative block, I take walks. I like to see what shapes stick out - so many legs rushing by at once, it can seem abstract. I don't need to see great art to get stirred up. Music does that for me more easily.
Caio Fonseca
#29. Life is the leaves which shape and nourish a plant, but art is the flower which embodies its meaning
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
#30. My recollections of Armenia open new visions for me. My art is therefore a growth art where forms, pines, shapes, memories of Armenia germinate, breathe, expand and contract, multiply and thereby create new paths for exploration.
Arshile Gorky
#31. The idea of creating glass art sculptures in the shapes of lethal viruses struck him as unsettling, original, and breathtakingly beautiful at the same time.
Joseph Souza
#32. Art is a framework, a kind of living trellis, on which public dreaming can shape itself ...
Elizabeth Janeway
#33. You are your own superstar, and only you can shape the movie that you make.
Roger Hodgson
#34. Art in relation to life is nothing more than a glove turned inside out. It seems to have the same shapes and contours, but it can never be used for the same purpose. Art teaches nothing about life, just as life teaches us nothing about art.
Morton Feldman
#36. What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.
Peter Zumthor
#37. I have things in my head that are not like what anyone taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me,so natural to my way of being and thinking.
Georgia O'Keeffe
#38. O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
