We haven't posted any quotes in like—what? Forever? Well here's some fun ones for this lovely April 14th. These quotes are related to anything and everything artsy, which are perfect for cards, layouts, home decor—you name it.
So let's get started!
ARTSY
Scrapbooking
Scrapbooking fills my days—not to mention my living room, bedroom and closets!
Blessed are the children of scrapbookers, for they shall inherit the scrapbooks.
I scrapbook, therefore I am.
I scrapbook, therefore I am....broke.
No scrap of paper bigger than my smallest punch shall be thrown away.
Keep some souvenirs of your past, or how will you ever prove it wasn't all a dream? —Ashleigh Brilliant.
My husband lets me have all the scrapbook supplies I can hide.
A true scrapbook addict is one who stages photographs to match paper she likes.
The album we've made is much more than a book / It's worth even more than the time that it took —Kimberly Rinehart
To crop, or not to crop—that is the question.
She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes —Frank Deford
When life gives you scraps, make something with them.
Runs with decorative scissors.
I'm so glam, I sweat glitter.
Painting/Art
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. —Scott Adams
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. —Pablo Picasso
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. —Henry Ward Beecher
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. —Twyla Tharp
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. —Pablo Picasso
Painting is silent poetry. —Plutarch, Moralia
To send light into the darkness of men's hearts—such is the duty of the artist. —Schumann
All art requires courage. —Anne Tucker
Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art. —Wynetka Ann Reynolds
Great art picks up where nature ends. —Marc Chagall
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. —Oscar Wilde
Art is the colors and textures of your imagination. —Meghan, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999
As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life. —John Lubbock
Photography
You don't take a photography. You ask, quietly, to borrow it.
Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. —Ambrose Bierce
Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter. —Ansel Adams
When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls! —Ted Grant
A photograph is usually looked at—seldom looked into. —Ansel Adams
The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera. —W. Eugene Smith
A good snapshot stops a moment from running away. —Eudora Welty
The camera can photograph thought. —Dirk Bogarde
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. —Ansel Adams
My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph. —Richard Avedon
I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything. —John Steinbeck
A photograph is memory in the raw —Carrie Latet.
All photos are accurate. None of them is the truth. —Richard Avedon
Buying a Nikon doesn't make you a photographer. It makes you a Nikon owner.
If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera —Lewis Hine
Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be —Duane Michals.
Singing
A bird doesn't sing because is has an answer, it sings because it has a song. —Maya Angelou
Those who wish to sing always find a song. —Proverb
So she poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit —Nathaniel Hawthorne
O, she will sing the savageness out of a bear! —William Shakespeare
As long as we live, there is never enough singing —Martin Luther
Life is a song. Love the music.
Little dew-drops of celestial melody —Thomas Carlyle
It was his nature to blossom into song, as it is a tree's to leaf itself in April. —Alexander Smith
I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing. —William James
The singer has everything with him. The notes come out from his very life. —Rabindranth Tagore
Sing out loud in the car, even—or especially—if it embarrasses your children —Marilyn Penland
Music/Instruments
A painter paints pictures on a canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence —Leopold Stokowski
Without music life would be a mistake. —Friedrick Wilhelm Nietzche
Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the beautiful is dead —Benjamin Disraeli
Music is what feelings sound like.
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. —Ludwig van Beethoven
Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. —Charlie Parker
Play the music, not the instrument.
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. —Robert Fripp
You are the music while the music lasts. —T.S. Eliot
Music is the universal language of mankind. —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. —Victor Hugo
It's language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate. —Arnold Bennett
Theater
The novel is more of a whisper, whereas the stage is a shout. —Robert Holman
The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life. —Oscar Wilde
The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life. —Arthur Miller
The center of the stage is where I am. —Martha Graham
Applause begets applause in the theatre, as laughter begets laughter and tears beget tears. —Clayton Hamilton
The drama is not dead but liveth, and contains the germs of better things —William Archer
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being. —Oscar Wilde
You may never get rid of the butterflies, but you can teach them how to fly in formation.
My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure. —Ashleigh Brilliant
Crayons
Life is about using the whole box of crayons —RuPaul
If you want an interesting party sometimes, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone. —Robert Fulghum
Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon. —Peter Lunch
Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons. —Al Hirschfeld
Give crayons. Adults are disturbingly impoverished of these magical dream sticks. —Dr. SunWolf
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. —G.K. Chesterton
Creativity
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. —Buckminster Fuller
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity. —Edwin Land
Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. —Franklin D. Roosevelt
The world is but a canvas to the imagination. —Henry David Thoreau
The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. —Linus Pauling
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. —Oscar Levant
The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes. —Saul Steinberg
Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. —William James
The ability to play is essential to being a creative artist. —Dewitt Jones
Nothing encourages creative like the chance to fall flat on one's face. —James D. Finley
Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. —Anna Freud
Imagination
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. —Michelangelo
Some stories are true that never happened. —Elie Weisel
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact. —William Shakespeare
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. —George Smith Patton
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. —Pablo Picasso
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. —G.K. Chesterton
Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life. —Simone Weil
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. —Lewis Carroll
Trust that little voice in your head that says "Wouldn't it be interesting if..." and then do it. —Duane Michals
Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun. —George Scialabba
I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant. —Ursula K. Le Guin
It is far, far, better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought. —John Kenneth Galbraith
