Art and leisure quotes

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.

Pablo Casals

There is nothing new in art except talent.

Anton Chekhov

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

Ansel Adams

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.

Jean Cocteau

Museums are the cemeteries of the arts.

Alphonse de Lamartine

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure, if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Ethel Barrymore

All passes. Art alone.

Austin Dobson

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.

Auguste Rodin

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.

Arthur Miller

In architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation, his will to power, assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A sculpture is just a drawing you fall over in the dark.

Al Hirschfeld

Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.

Ed Reinhart

The Arts Council doesn’t believe in supporting amateurs, except in its own ranks.

John Drummond