SARAH FRANCES DIAS

        ''Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.'' – Anaïs Nin                                                 “Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.” – Anaïs Nin                                                                             ...

1. "Every good artist paints what he is ." 2. "I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious , figures are bound to emerge."     3. "The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating."     4. "I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and colour sketches into a final painting." 5. "Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within." 6. "The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art ."    7. "It [abstract art] should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed – after a while you may like it or you may not."     8. In response to the question "How do you know when you're finished?", Pollock...

1. “ Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step. There's no sun there, no moon, no direction, no sense of time. Just fine white sand swirling up into the sky like pulverized bones. That's the kind of sandstorm you need to imagine. An you really will have to make it through that violent, metaphysical, symbolic storm. No matter how metaphysical or symbolic it might be, make no mistake about it: it will cut through flesh like a thousand razo...

1. '' The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. ''            Pablo Picasso 2. '' We have art in order not to die of the truth. ''         Friedrich Nietzsche 3. '' It was the job of art to bring true feelings alive. To shock people into awareness. ''         Michael Crichton 4. '' Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man. It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal. For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves. And to be stolen away from ourselves by Art is a momentary relaxation from t...

1. ''  The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist. ''  2. ''  Anything simple always interests me. '' 3. '' The mind is the limit. '' 4. ''We grow small trying to be great.''   David Hockney

LEONARDO DA VINCI 1. It reflects no great honour on a painter to be able to execute one thing well. 2. That painter who has no doubts will achieve little. 3. Nothing is more apt to deceive us than our own judgement of our work. We derive more benefit from having our faults pointed out by our enemies than from hearing the opinions of friends. 4. Study the science of art and the art of science. 5. Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master. LEONARDO DA VINCI

'' Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the romance of the unusual. '' Ernest Hemingway

       Concerning the Spiritual in Art by Kandinsky Quotes: 1. “Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.”  2. "Just as each spoken word rouses an internal vibration, so does every object represented." 3. "There is no 'must' in art, because art is always free." 4. " Everything is at first a matter of feeling." 5. "It is evident therefore that color harmony must rest ultimately on purposive playing upon the human soul; this is one of the guiding principles of internal necessity."

1.   « No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. (...) Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life. »           The Decay of Lying, Oscar Wilde 2.   « A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. »           Oscar Wilde 3.   « Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. »          Oscar Wilde

Mark Rothko 1. '' Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness. ''    Mark Rothko   2. '' We assert that the subject is crucial, and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless.''   Mark Rothko

Henri Matisse 1. '' Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul. ''   Henri Matisse 2. '' I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.'' Henri Matisse

1. ''  Everything starts from a dot.  ''           Wassily Kandinsky

'' An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision. ''  James Whislter