Long Evening dress

Long Evening dress

FAMOUS ART QUOTES, MUSIC QUOTES, PAINTING QUOTES, FILM MAKING QUOTES, PHOTOGRAPHY QUOTES:

Art is spirituality in drag.
~ Jennifer Yane

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
~ Maya Angelou, Gather Together in My Name

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.
~ Eudora Welty

The camera can photograph thought.
~ Dirk Bogarde

Reflexes and instincts are not pretty. It is their decoration that initiates art.
~ Martin H. Fischer

Photoshop glowing edges art

Photoshop glowing edges art

FAMOUS ART QUOTES, MUSIC QUOTES, PAINTING QUOTES, FILM MAKING QUOTES, PHOTOGRAPHY QUOTES:

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.
~ Loren Eiseley, The Night Country, 1971

He who sings scares away his woes.
~ Cervantes

Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
~ Ansel Adams

I think a photography class should be a requirement in all educational programs because it makes you see the world rather than just look at it.
~ Author Unknown

Indian model posing in a short top chudidar

Indian model posing in a short top chudidar.

FAMOUS ART QUOTES, MUSIC QUOTES, PAINTING QUOTES, FILM MAKING QUOTES, PHOTOGRAPHY QUOTES:

Art is the struggle to understand.
~ Audrey Foris

Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?
~ Michael Torke

As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.
~ John Lubbock

And the night shall be filled with music,
And the cares that infest the day
Shall fold their tents like the Arabs
And as silently steal away.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Day Is Done

Banarasi patola saree with gold print

Banarasi patola saree with gold print. Traditional Indian saree.

FAMOUS ART QUOTES, MUSIC QUOTES, PAINTING QUOTES, FILM MAKING QUOTES, PHOTOGRAPHY QUOTES:

Art disturbs, science reassures.
~ Georges Braque, Le Jour et la nuit

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
~ Ansel Adams

The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.
~ W. Eugene Smith

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
~ Gustav Mahler

Indian Bridal dress | Lehenga Choli

Indian Bridal dress | Lehenga Choli

FAMOUS ART QUOTES, MUSIC QUOTES, PAINTING QUOTES, FILM MAKING QUOTES, PHOTOGRAPHY QUOTES:

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.
~ Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Without music life would be a mistake.
~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
~ Agnes Repplier, Points of View, 1891

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

Prom party dress

Prom party dress

FAMOUS ART QUOTES, MUSIC QUOTES, PAINTING QUOTES, FILM MAKING QUOTES, PHOTOGRAPHY QUOTES:

Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts.
~ Minor White

A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.
~ Ansel Adams


All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!
~ Thomas Carlyle

Art hath an enemy called ignorance.
~ Ben Jonson

If the King loves music, it is well with the land.
~ Mencius

Printed Cotton Churidar

Indian model posing in a printed cotton Chudidar suit.

FAMOUS ART QUOTES, MUSIC QUOTES, PAINTING QUOTES, FILM MAKING QUOTES, PHOTOGRAPHY QUOTES:

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
~ Leopold Stokowski

One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie.
~ Mark Stevens

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
~ Berthold Auerbach

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things.
~ Pablo Picasso

Silky butta churidar

Silky butta churidar

FAMOUS ART QUOTES, MUSIC QUOTES, PAINTING QUOTES, FILM MAKING QUOTES, PHOTOGRAPHY QUOTES:

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.
~ Dorothea Lange

Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.
~ Jean Paul Richter

Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
~ Fred Allen

Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom.
~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Orthodoxy

Assam cotton hand printed saree

Model posing in a Assam cotton hand printed saree.

FAMOUS ART QUOTES, MUSIC QUOTES, PAINTING QUOTES, FILM MAKING QUOTES, PHOTOGRAPHY QUOTES:

I have just read your lousy review. You sound like a frustrated old man who never made a success, an eight ulcer man on a four ulcer job...I have never met you but if I do, you'll need a new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes, and a supporter below.
~ Harry S. Truman
(to critic Paul Hume after his unflattering review of daughter Margaret's singing recital)

I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.
~ Henri Matisse, Notes d'un peintre, 1908

Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.
~ Alan Jay Lerner

If you're photographing in color you show the color of their clothes - if you use black and white, you will show the color of their soul.
~ Author Unknown

Bengal handloom saree

Bengal handloom saree

FAMOUS ART QUOTES, MUSIC QUOTES, PAINTING QUOTES, FILM MAKING QUOTES, PHOTOGRAPHY QUOTES:

The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.
~ Orson Welles

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
~ Pablo Picasso

Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.
~ P. G. Wodehouse

When painting, an artist must take care not to trap his soul in the canvas.
~ Dena Groquet

Fancy Printed Saree

Indian model posing in a Fancy Printed Saree.

FAMOUS ART QUOTES, MUSIC QUOTES, PAINTING QUOTES, FILM MAKING QUOTES, PHOTOGRAPHY QUOTES:

That's the trouble with directors--always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.
~ Sam Goldwyn

As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language.
~ Pablo Picasso

No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.
~ Robert Adams, Darkroom & Creative Camera Techniques, May 1995

It's weird that photographers spend years or even a whole lifetime, trying to capture moments that added together, don't even amount to a couple of hours.
~ James Lalropui Keivom