Quotes about Art, page 4

I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!

Quote by Ansel Adams about art

In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.

Quote by Ansel Adams about art

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.

Quote by Ansel Adams about art

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

Quote by Ansel Adams about art

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

Quote by Ansel Adams about art

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.

Quote by Ansel Adams about art

I'll dabble here and there in different forms of the art, but the label has me locked down like a slave so, of course, I'll be doing albums during this time.

Quote by Erykah Badu about art

I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that.

Quote by Erykah Badu about art

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

Quote by Ansel Adams about art

There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of...

Quote by Ansel Adams about art

When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from...

Quote by Ansel Adams about art

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

Quote by Scott Adams about art

On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and...

Quote by Fredrik Bajer about art

We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail.

Quote by Fredrik Bajer about art

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

Quote by Honoré de Balzac about art

What is art? Nature concentrated.

Quote by Honoré de Balzac about art

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.

Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about art

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.

Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about art

Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it's a kind of risky trade.

Quote by Al Alvarez about art

Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about art