“Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.” – Paul Klee
Sally Mann 1974
“I don’t think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.” – Keith Haring
“Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art.” – Pablo Picasso
“Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions, when it ceases to be dangerous you don’t want it.” – Anthony Burgess
“An artist should be taking risks. That’s the whole idea of being an artist.” – JR
“Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental.” – George Santayana
“Artwork is work [and should be paid for].” – bumpersticker
“Art should be as inclusive as possible.” – Wayne White
“Art should be independent of all clap-trap – should stand alone, and appeal to the artist sense of eye or ear, without confounding this with emotions entirely foreign to it, as devotion, pity, love, patriotism, and the like. All these have no kind of concern with it; and that is why I insist on calling my works ‘arrangements’ and ‘harmonies.'” – James Whistler
“The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color. Our entire being is nourished by it. This mystic quality of color should likewise find expression in a work of art.” – Hans Hofmann
“Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.” – W. Somerset Maugham
“A man’s style in any art should be like his dress – it should attract as little attention as possible.” – Samuel Butler
“One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.” – Oscar Wilde
“All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don’t want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don’t think art should be escapist. That’s a waste of time.” – Edward Albee
“Art should be 75% the width of the Sofa” – design blog
“Every great work of art should be considered like any work of nature. First of all from the point of view of its aesthetic reality and then not just from its development and the mastery of its creation but from the standpoint of what has moved and agitated its creator.” – Amedeo Modigliani
“Art should be life. It’s an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it.” – John Lyden
“Art is a form of consciousness.” – Susan Sontag
“We want art to be a part of our daily lives.” – Seattle Art League
Seattle Artist League: art school, art classes, painting classes, figure drawing.
[image_with_animation image_url=”7962″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Michele Yanow In January we sent out 30 days of Creative Challenges. I heard that many of you were doing the challenges at home, and a few of you were outgoing enough to post your projects to our facebook page. It was a thrill to see them every day. …
Posts have continued to pop up for our 30 Day January Creative Challenge. New people have joined in! Instagram continues to stand out as the social media of choice for most artists – we now have over 1000 posts! Some people are new to social media, some are new to drawing. Everyone is posting stuff …
After my post about Non-Toxic Oil Painting, I stopped by Artist & Craftsman to pick up a few new solvent free mediums. Of course there are far more oils and mediums on the shelf than I included here. Some mediums dry slower, some mediums are thicker, some mediums make unicorns appear. I didn’t get them …
Last week I sent out a creative invitation to put googly eyes on inanimate objects. The responses on Instagram made our heads spin! Below are a few selected from the whole googly bunch. Stay tuned! The monkeys are gathering their favorites for week 2 of the #30SAL Challenge. Posting soon!
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Seattle Artist League: art school, art classes, painting classes, figure drawing.
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