"I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene."

Art, Eyes, Shadows, Trees

46

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene."

Exlpore more Art quotes

"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Art, Limitations, Thinking

"History develops, art stands still."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

Art, History

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

Simone de Beauvoir, French Writer

Art, Husband, Job

"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

Art, Poetry, Love, Emotion, Expression

"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."

Flannery O'Connor, American Author

Art, Truth

"Music heals all forms of misery."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Art, Music, Healing, Comfort, Emotion

"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."

Charles Baudelaire, French Poet

Art, Being, Modernity

"The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Art, Play, Success, Audience, Failure

"The man can neither make, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Art, Music, Experience, Truth, Life

"The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

Art, Communication, Expression, Understanding

Explore more quotes by Grandma Moses

"If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens."

People

"A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells."

Work

"I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it."

Life

"I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people."

People

"A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day."

History

"I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene."

Art

46

Standard

Customized

Exlpore more Art quotes

"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

"History develops, art stands still."

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

"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."

"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."

"Music heals all forms of misery."

"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."

"The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure."

"The man can neither make, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels."

"The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible."

Explore more quotes by Grandma Moses

"If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens."

"A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells."

"I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it."

"I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people."

"A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day."

"If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens."

"Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be."

"Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy."

"I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene."