/quotes

The Kennedy Center: ARTSEDGE — the National Arts and Education Network

MY ARTSEDGE |

Educators
Lessons How To's
Families
At School At Home Out & About
Students
Perf. Guides Features
Collections
Media

Quote of the Day

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

- Edgar Degas

PRINT THIS QUOTE ›

  Quotessort Subject
Print We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
- Sir Winston Churchill 		Visual Arts
Print How inimitably graceful children are in general -- before they learn to dance.
- S.T. Coleridge 		Dance
Print Let a man be stimulated by poetry, established by the rules of propriety, and perfected by music.
- Confucius 		Music
Print Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
- Pat Conroy 		Music
Print Dancing is like dreaming with your feet.
- Constanze 		Dance
Print The artist is not a special kind of man, but every man is a special kind of artist.
- A.K. Coomaraswamy 		Visual Arts
Print Good choreography fuses eye, ear, and mind.
- Arlene Croce 		Dance
Print The only way to do it is to do it.
- Merce Cunningham 		Dance
Print Don’t be an art critic, but paint, there lies salvation.
- Paul Cézanne 		Visual Arts
Print Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.
- Paul Cézanne 		Visual Arts
Print The color of the object illuminated partakes of the color of that which illuminates it.
- Leonardo Da Vinci 		Visual Arts
Print Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
- Salvador Dali 		Visual Arts
Print You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free.
- Salvador Dali 		Visual Arts
Print When I paint, the sea roars. The others splash about in the bath.
- Salvador Dali 		Visual Arts
Print People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.
- Salvador Dali 		Visual Arts
Print Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
- Salvador Dali 		Visual Arts
Print To give body and perfect form to your thought, this alone is what it is to be an artist.
- Jacques-Louis David 		Visual Arts
Print Do not fear mistakes, there are none.
- Miles Davis 		Music
Print The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
- Agnes De Mille 		Dance
Print Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
- Edgar Degas 		Visual Arts
Print Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
- Edgar Degas 		Visual Arts
Print This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.
- Charles Dickens 		Literary Arts
Print It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
- Walt Disney 		Media Arts
Print The high note is not the only thing.
- Placido Domingo 		Music
Print Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
- John Dryden 		Dance
Print Great ideas originate in the muscles.
- Thomas Edison 		Literary Arts
Print Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein 		Visual Arts
Print It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
- Albert Einstein 		Visual Arts
Print If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
- Albert Einstein 		Literary Arts
Print The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious, the source of all art and science.
- Albert Einstein
Print Playing "bop" is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
- Duke Ellington 		Music
Print Music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to no one.
- Duke Ellington 		Music
Print Move your neck according to the music.
- Ethiopian Proverb 		Dance
Print Dance is so important in the world. It needs no language. Our bodies speak a language of its own.
- Ibrahim Farrah 		Dance
Print I do not want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.
- Carrie Fisher 		Theater
Print Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.
- Margot Fonteyn 		Theater
Print To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
- Anatole France 		Visual Arts
Print If you are looking for something to be brave about consider fine arts.
- Robert Frost 		Visual Arts
Print A painting is never finished - it simply stops in interesting places.
- Paul Gardner 		Visual Arts
Print Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
- Paul Gauguin 		Visual Arts
Print The flat sound of my wooden clogs on the cobblestones, deep, hollow and powerful, is the note I seek in my painting.
- Paul Gauguin 		Visual Arts
Print I shut my eyes in order to see.
- Paul Gauguin 		Visual Arts
Print We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 		Visual Arts
Print Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 		Literary Arts
Print Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.
- Vincent Van Gogh 		Visual Arts
Print The only time I feel alive is when I’m painting.
- Vincent Van Gogh 		Visual Arts
Print Art is a part of the rebellion against the realities of its unfulfilled desire.
- Emma Goldman 		Visual Arts
Print The essence of drawing is the line exploring space.
- Andy Goldsworthy 		Visual Arts
Print No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that the others are behind the time.
- Martha Graham 		Visual Arts
Print Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
- Martha Graham 		Dance
‹  prev | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | next  ›
show: 25 | 50 | 75 | show all
Email Print Share

Text:

- +
Email a link to this page
Cancel
Print

Print This Page ›

Cancel
Share This Page



| More


Cancel
Search Arts Quotes
Keyword
or
By Subject

See All›
Most Popular Tags

© 1996-2019 John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts  

ArtsEdge is an education program of

The Kennedy Center 

with the support of

The US Department of Education 



ARTSEDGE, part of the Rubenstein Arts Access Program, is generously funded by David Rubenstein.

Additional support is provided by the U.S. Department of Education.

Kennedy Center education and related artistic programming is made possible through the generosity of the National Committee
for the Performing Arts and the President’s Advisory Committee on the Arts.

The contents of this Web site were developed under a grant from the U.S. Department of Education. However, those contents do not
necessarily represent the policy of the U.S. Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal government.
Unless otherwise stated, ArtsEdge materials may be copied, modified and otherwise utilized for non-commercial educational purposes
provided that ArtsEdge and any authors listed in the materials are credited and provided that you permit others to use them in the same manner.

Change Background:

Connect with us!    EMAIL US | YouTube | Facebook | iTunes | MORE!

© 1996-2019 John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts  
    Privacy Policy | Terms and Conditions

Close

You are now leaving the ArtsEdge website. Thank you for visiting!

If you are not automatically transferred, please click the link below:
http://absoluteshakespeare.com

ArtsEdge and The Kennedy Center are in no way responsible for the content of the destination site, its ongoing availability, links to other site or the legality or accuracy of information on the site or its resources.

Cancel

Close