Beautiful sayings about art and creativity. Great people about art

Nature knows two minds:
the mind of animals and from God!

Donkey drinks water in the river
Alkay language.
Man holding out his hand
invented the first glass!

And the pinnacle of beauty
crater found in Pompeii:
century rospms does not fade
naked dumbness...

Animals have sharper senses
but what should they do in the museum?

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Sayings of great people about art

Hippocrates
- Life is short, art is eternal!

Alexandre Dumas - son
- Art requires either solitude, or need, or passion. Whether he holds a chisel, pen or brush in his hand, the artist really deserves this name only when he infuses the soul into material objects or gives form to spiritual impulses.

Leonardo da Vinci
- Where the spirit does not lead the hand of the artist, there is no art.

Giordano Bruno
- Art makes up for the shortcomings of nature.

Salvador Dali
- Painting is a color photograph made by hand of all possible, super-refined, unusual, super-aesthetic samples of concrete irrationality.

L. N. Tolstoy
Simplicity is a necessary condition for beauty.

Honore de Balzac
- Constant labor is the law of both art and life.

Hegel
- Authentic immortal works the arts remain accessible and delightful to all times and peoples.

Emile Zola
- Piece of art there is a piece of nature filtered through the temperament of the artist.

Johann Joachim Winckelmann
- Drawing for the artist is the same as for the orator from Demosthenes: he should be in the first, second and third place.

Leonardo da Vinci
- Painting is poetry that is seen, and poetry is painting that is heard.

Anton Semyonovich Makarenko
- To refuse risk means to refuse creativity.

Boris Pasternak
- The purpose of creativity is self-giving,
Not a hype, not a success.
When the feeling dictates the line
It sends a slave to the stage,
And this is where the art ends.
And the soil and fate breathe.

Seneca
- The arts are useful only if they develop the mind, and do not distract it.

Michelangelo

T. Dreiser
- Art is a powerful means of correcting human imperfection.

A. N. Tolstoy
- To perceive art ... is as difficult as to create it.

Cicero
- Everything beautiful is rare.

G. Flaubert
- All colors are good, you just need to be able to write with them.

P. Picasso
Why try to understand art? You are not trying to understand what the bird is singing about.

Euripides
- No, I will not leave, Muses, your altar ... There is no true life without art.

L.N. Tolstoy
- Art is one of the means of uniting people.

W. Goethe
- We need an artist even in the moment of the greatest happiness and the greatest misfortune.

André Gide
- Art is the collaboration of God with the artist, and what less artist, all the better.

Denis Diderot
- The art is to find the extraordinary in the ordinary and the ordinary in the extraordinary.

Michelangelo Buonarotti
- Art is jealous: it requires a person to give himself entirely to it.

G. Hegel
- Art has as its task to reveal the truth in a sensual form.

Brecht Bertolt
- All kinds of arts serve the greatest of the arts - the art of living on earth.

Aleksandrov Georgy
- higher art is a slice of time frozen for centuries.

Malevich K
- The time has long come to understand that the problems of art and the problems of the stomach are very far from each other.

Sand Georges
- The roads leading to art are full of thorns, but they also manage to pick beautiful flowers.

Leonardo Vinci
- Painting argues and competes with nature.

Helvetius Claude Adrian
- The task of art is to excite hearts.

Schiller Johann Friedrich
- Precisely because true art strives for something real and objective, it cannot be satisfied only with the appearance of truth.

Anatole France
- One should not be especially afraid to attribute to the artists of the past an ideal that they never had. Admiration is impossible without an admixture of illusion, and to understand a perfect work of art means, in general, to re-create it in your inner world. The same works are reflected differently in the soul of contemplators. Each generation is looking for new emotions in the creations of the old masters. The most gifted spectator is the one who finds, at the cost of several successful false interpretations, the most tender and most strong emotion. Therefore, humanity has a passionate attachment mainly to such works of art and poetry, which contain dark places that allow for the possibility of different understanding.

Dmitry Sergeevich Likhachev (1906-99)

Letters about Good and Beautiful

letter thirty two
(fragments)

UNDERSTAND ART

So life is the most great value which the person has. If you compare life with a precious palace with many halls stretching out in endless enfilades, all generously varied and all different from each other, then the largest hall in this palace, the real "throne room", is the hall in which art reigns. This is a hall of amazing magic. And the first magic that he performs happens not only with the owner of the palace himself, but also with all those invited to the celebration.

This is a hall of endless festivities that make a person’s whole life more interesting, solemn, more fun, more significant ... I don’t know what other epithets to express my admiration for art, for its works, for the role that it plays in the life of mankind. And the greatest value that art bestows on a person is the value of kindness. Awarded with the gift of understanding art, a person becomes morally better, and therefore happier. Yes, happier! For, rewarded through art with the gift of a good understanding of the world, the people around him, the past and the distant, a person makes friends more easily with other people, with other cultures, with other nationalities, it is easier for him to live.

But understanding works of art is far from easy. You have to learn this - study for a long time, all your life. For there can be no stop in expanding one's understanding of art. There can only be a retreat back - into the darkness of misunderstanding. After all, art confronts us all the time with new and new phenomena, and this is the enormous generosity of art. Some doors opened for us in the palace, after them it was the turn of opening to others.

They often say about someone: he has an innate taste. Not at all! If you look closely at those people who can be said to have taste, you will notice in them one feature that they all have in common: they are honest and sincere in their susceptibility. They have learned a lot from her.

I have never noticed that taste is inherited.

Taste, I think, is not among the properties that are transmitted by genes. Although the family brings up taste from the family, much depends on its intelligence.

One should not approach a work of art in a biased way, based on an established "opinion", from fashion, from the views of one's friends, or starting from the views of enemies. With a work of art, one must be able to remain “one on one”.

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Aesthetics Nietzsche. "Art is given to us, so as not to die from the truth."

Creativity is a riddle that the artist asks himself.
Stanisław Jerzy Lec (1909 - 1966), Polish poet and aphorist

Don't be proud - create.
God created the world in a moment of humility.
Grigory Landau (1877 - 1941), philosopher, critic

“First think, then speak” is the motto of criticism; “First speak, then think” is the motto of creativity.
Edward Forster (1879 - 1970) English writer and critic

Few people create anything creative after the age of 35. The reason for this is that few people create anything creative before the age of 35.
Joel Hildebrand (1881 - 1983), American chemist

Creativity begets the creator.
Maxim Zvonarev (b. 1956), journalist

Dogmatism is the integrity of the spirit; the one who creates is always dogmatic, always boldly choosing and creating the chosen.
Nikolai Berdyaev (1874 - 1948), philosopher

Mastery is when "what" and "how" come together.
Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874 - 1940), director

Waiting for their time only those for whom it will never come.
Grigory Landau

His work has reached a double bottom.
Wiesław Brudziński (b. 1920), Polish satirist

The state of creative impotence, alas, does not interfere with creativity.
Leszek Kumor, Polish aphorist

All creativity is essentially prayer. All creativity is directed to the ear of the Almighty.
Joseph Brodsky

Creativity is a common deed done by the solitary.
Marina Tsvetaeva

Every man is less than his most beautiful creation.
Paul Valery

An invention can be perfected, a creation can only be imitated.
Maria Ebner-Eschenbach

I close my eyes to see better.
Paul Gauguin

The work is a flawed idea.
Alfred Schnittke

An artist's career always starts tomorrow.
James Whistler

Only the Almighty had complete freedom of creativity, and even then only on the first day of creation.
Maxim Zvonarev

To do easily what is difficult for others is a talent; to do what is impossible for talent is genius.
A. Amiel

Great talents are alien to pettiness.
O. Balzac

If a talent does not have sufficient power in itself to become in line with its aspirations and enterprises, it produces only barren flowers when you expect it to bear fruit.
V. Belinsky

The ability to create is a great gift of nature; the act of creativity in the creative soul is a great mystery; a minute of creativity is a moment of great sacred rites.
V. Belinsky

The level of honor of society depends on the level of respect (even reverence, worship) for talent; there is no greater blow to honor than the triumph of mediocrity.
E. rich

The powers of man, so far as experience and analogy teach us, are unlimited; there is no reason to believe even some imaginary limit on which the human mind will stop.
G. Buckle

The creator of poverty does not know.
Far from worldly bounties,
Not busy with the extraction of wealth, -
He takes them out of his soul.
L. Boleslavsky

great creations human spirit like mountain peaks: their snow-white peaks rise higher and higher before us, the farther we go from them.
S. Bulgakov

Where there is life and freedom, there is room for new creativity.
S. Bulgakov

It seems to us that people do not know well both their capabilities and their strengths: they exaggerate the former, and underestimate the latter.
F. Bacon

Ingenuity is precisely the ability to compare things and recognize their connection.
L. Vauvenargues

There are no patrons more reliable than our own abilities.
L. Vauvenargues

Another is colorless in the first row, but in the second it shines.
Voltaire

Inventing oneself is fine, but knowing and appreciating what others have found is less than creating.
I. Goethe

Who is born with talent and for talent, he finds his best existence in it.
I. Goethe

No one knows what his powers are until he uses them.
I. Goethe

Ability is presupposed, but it must become a skill.
I. Goethe

Traces will disappear generations,
But talent is alive, genius is immortal.
M. Glinka

There is hardly any higher pleasure than the pleasure of creating.
N. Gogol

You can't learn creative techniques. Every creator has his own tricks. One can only imitate the highest methods, but this does not lead to anything, and it is impossible to penetrate into the work of the creative spirit.
I. Goncharov

If you don’t know how to hold an ax in your hand, you won’t cut wood, and if you don’t know the language well, you won’t write beautifully and understandably for everyone.
M. Gorky

Talent is faith in yourself, in your strength ...
M. Gorky

Great talents are products of morbid passion...
J. D'Alembert

Man is glorified not by gold, not by silver. The man is glorified by his talent and skill.
A. Jami

Compared to what we should be, we are still in a semi-drowsy state. We use only a small part of our physical and mental resources. In general, it can be said that a person lives in this way, far beyond the measure of his capabilities. He possesses abilities of various kinds, which he does not usually use.
W. James

Talent is one third instinct, one third memory, and one third will.
K. Dossi

Talent needs sympathy, it needs to be understood.
F. Dostoevsky

Creativity… is an integral, organic property of human nature… It is a necessary property of the human spirit. It is just as legitimate in a person, perhaps, like two hands, like two legs, like a stomach. It is inseparable from man and constitutes a whole with him.
F. Dostoevsky

What is talent? There is talent ... the ability to say or express well where mediocrity will say and express badly.
F. Dostoevsky

There are no incompetent people. There are those who are unable to determine their abilities, to develop them.
And since these tasks are solved in childhood, the parents are primarily to blame for this. Without their help, the child cannot solve these problems.
V. Zubkov

True talents do not go unrewarded: there is an audience, there is offspring. The main thing is not to receive, but to deserve.
N. Karamzin

The talent of great souls is to recognize the great in other people.
N. Karamzin

Creativity is a lofty feat, and feat requires sacrifice. All sorts of petty and selfish feelings prevent you from creating. And creativity is a selfless service to the art of the people.
V. Kachalov

The highest task of talent is to make people understand the meaning and value of life through their work.
V. Klyuchevsky

Talent is a spark of God, with which a person usually burns himself, illuminating the path of others with this own fire.
V. Klyuchevsky

Who prevents you from inventing waterproof gunpowder?
Kozma Prutkov

Talents measure the progress of civilization, and they also represent the milestones of history, serving as telegrams from ancestors and contemporaries to posterity.
Kozma Prutkov

Only in creativity is there joy - everything else is dust and vanity.
A. Koni

True talents are not angry for criticism: / Beauty cannot harm them, / Some fake flowers are afraid of rain.
I. Krylov

There is the same relationship between intelligence and talent as between the whole and the part.
J. La Bruyère

Human gifts are like trees: each has special properties and bears its own inherent fruit.
F. La Rochefoucauld

I maintain that a bad head, by possessing and exercising auxiliary advantages, can outdo the best, just as a child can draw a line on a ruler better than greatest master by hand.
G. Leibniz

Talent should be encouraged.
V. Lenin

Whoever does not use his talents to teach and educate others is either a bad person or a limited person.
G. Lichtenberg

There is something rarer, more extraordinary, than giftedness. It is the ability to recognize the giftedness of others.
G. Lichtenberg

We are born with abilities and powers to do almost anything - at any rate, these abilities are such that they can take us further than can be easily imagined; but only the exercise of these forces can give us skill and skill in anything and lead us to perfection.
D. Locke

Everyone feels what his forces are, on which he can count.
Lucretius

What else is wealth, if not the absolute manifestation of the creative talents of a person ...
K. Marx

To strictly follow your inclinations and to be in their power is to be a slave to yourself.
M. Montaigne

"Impossible" is a word that can only be found in the vocabulary of fools.
Napoleon I

Ability means little without opportunity.
Napoleon

Whoever creates loves himself in it; therefore he has to hate himself in the deepest way - in this hatred he knows no measure.
F. Nietzsche

Calling is the backbone of life.
F. Nietzsche

The talent of another person seems to be less than he is, because he always sets himself too big tasks.
F. Nietzsche

Creation! Here is a great salvation from suffering, a great relief of life!
F. Nietzsche

Creative work is beautiful, extraordinarily hard and amazingly joyful work.
N. Ostrovsky

The impulse to creativity can be as easily extinguished as it arose if left without food.
K. Paustovsky

The creative process in its very course acquires new qualities, becomes more complex and richer.
K. Paustovsky

The highest talent will easily be disgraced if an overconfident one wants to measure his strength the first time in such a matter, which requires great preliminary knowledge, maturity of mind in judgment and experience in life.
N. Pirogov

Only a strong talent can embody an era.
D. Pisarev

Everything that causes the transition from non-existence to existence is creativity.
Plato

It has long been noted that talents are everywhere and always, wherever and when there are social conditions favorable for their development.
G. Plekhanov

What remains for a long time is born from a whole person in pain and joy, just like life is born in nature. To get within oneself to this synthesis of the birth of personality, just as scientists get to the synthesis of protein—this is the seductive and dangerous path of creativity.
G. Plekhanov

In fact, in order to deeply appreciate the creation of what we call genius, one must himself possess the genius necessary for such an accomplishment.
E. By

The first stage of all creativity is self-forgetfulness.
M. Prishvin

Creativity is a passion that dies in form.
M. Prishvin

All of us, alas, are not equally suitable for all cases.
Propertius

When the sea is calm, everyone can be a helmsman.
Publilius Sir

Always remain dissatisfied: this is the essence of creativity.
J. Renard

There is only one happiness: to create. Only the one who creates is alive. The rest are shadows wandering the earth, alien to life. All the joys of life are creative joys ...
R. Rollan

To create is nothing but to believe.
R. Rollan

To create - be it new flesh or spiritual values ​​- means to break free from the captivity of your body, means to rush into the hurricane of life, means to be the One Who Is. To create is to kill death.
R. Rollan

Creativity is the beginning that gives man immortality.
R. Rollan

What a pity that the offspring is unreasonable
Born from a sage:
The son does not inherit
Father's talent and knowledge.
Rudaki

Which main feature real talent? This is constant development, constant self-improvement.
V. Stasov

A vocation can be recognized and proved only by the sacrifice that a scientist or artist makes to his peace or well-being in order to give himself up to his vocation.
L. Tolstoy

Where labor turns into creativity, naturally, even physiologically, the fear of death disappears.
L. Tolstoy

Do you still not know if you have talent? Give it time to ripen; and even if it does not turn out to be, does a person really need a poetic talent in order to live and act?
I. Turgenev

Talent, like character, is manifested in the struggle. Some people adapt to circumstances, others defend such necessary human principles as honor, conscientiousness, fidelity. The fixtures are disappearing. The fundamental ones, having overcome all difficulties, remain.
V. Uspensky

Where there is no space for the manifestation of abilities, there is no ability.
L. Feuerbach

As life progresses, we learn the limits of our abilities.
3. Freud

The creative personality is subject to a different, higher law than the law of simple duty. For someone who is called to perform a great deed, to accomplish a discovery or a feat that moves all of humanity forward, for him the true homeland is no longer his fatherland, but his deed. In the final analysis, he feels himself responsible only to one instance - to the task that he is destined to solve, and he will rather allow himself to despise state and temporary interests than the internal obligation that his special fate, special talent has placed on him.
S. Zweig

Let everyone know his abilities and let him strictly judge himself, his virtues and vices.
Cicero

Great talent requires great hard work.
P. Tchaikovsky

In truth, the power of talent; wrong direction destroys the strongest talent.
N. Chernyshevsky

Talent ... gives everyone double the price.
N. Chernyshevsky

Any person of average ability can, by proper work on himself, diligence, attention and perseverance, become anything he wants, except as a good poet.
F. Chesterfield

Brevity is the soul of wit.
A. Chekhov

Whoever has experienced the pleasure of creativity, for him all other pleasures no longer exist.
A. Chekhov

I don't believe in one single power of talent, without hard work. Without her, the greatest talent will fizzle out, as a spring will die out in the desert, not making its way through the sands ...
F. Chaliapin

Insomnia is the cradle of creativity.
I. Shevelev

In creativity, the maximum return does not deplete, but tones.
I. Shevelev

Denial of one's talent is always a guarantee of talent.
W. Shakespeare

In fact, the creator usually experiences only grief.
L. Shestov

The creators of great ideas are very dismissive of their creations and care little about their fate in the world.
L. Shestov

Ordinary people are busy only to pass the time; and who has any talent - to take advantage of the time.
A. Schopenhauer

Any worker, be it a writer, artist, composer, scientist, figure in science and culture, cannot create if he is cut off from social work, from life. Without impressions, enthusiasm, inspiration, without life experience- no creativity.
D. Shostakovich

Discoveries are made when everyone thinks that this cannot be, and one person does not know this.
A. Einstein

Airbrushing technique is quite complicated and involves the use additional materials. In this section, we will talk about those that are necessary for performing illustrations with an airbrush.

Just like any other painting technique, airbrushing allows you to get images on the surface of the base. However, its peculiarity is that

Eight secrets in drawing

Eight secrets that will allow you
learn to draw skillfully

1. Correct construction of objects in space

This skill is the basis for any professional artist. It will create a sense of three-dimensional space in your picture, which is very important. Already he alone will greatly improve your paintings.

2. Proper strokes

With the help of strokes, a background is created for the future volume of forms and objects - this is the main basis. When you learn how to apply them correctly, everything you draw will become more saturated and clear.

3. Tone stretching with a pencil

Another secret of the masters. When you learn how to make a tone stretch with a pencil from simple to complex, gain tone with pencils of different softness, you yourself will be surprised how much more realistic your drawings will become.

4. The art of drawing three-dimensional figures

Another skill that distinguishes people who draw great from those who are new to drawing. This is the ability to give volume to objects that differ in shape, work with light and reflex, own shadow and penumbra. These skills will make your work much better.

5. The ability to work with your own shadow on the figures, to add volume

It is also important to be able to do this if you want to masterfully depict three-dimensional objects and create realistic paintings.

6. Effective construction of falling shadows

The type and shape of the falling shadows depends not only on the figure that casts it, but also on the location of the light source. Having mastered this skill, you will be able to draw falling shadows of various geometric shapes but also to apply this knowledge to objects of various shapes.

7. The ability to distinguish objects by tone

Thanks to this, you will not only be able to show the difference between objects and forms, but also indicate the compositional center, which is very important for building a composition.

8. Compliance with composition

But this is the most important knowledge that will “revive” your picture and fill it with meaning, make the viewer think about what mood you had at the time of creating the picture, what exactly you wanted to tell the viewer. Knowing the composition will allow you to “say” with your painting what you cannot say with words…

… and many other skills and secrets that the best artists in the world have.

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A collection of aphorisms, quotes and sayings that may come in handy when writing final essay 2018/2019 in the direction "Art and craft".

• Essay topics
• Literature
• Arguments
• All in the direction "Art and craft

Quotes and aphorisms:

• Whoever has experienced the pleasure of creativity, for him all other pleasures do not exist. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
• There is hardly any higher pleasure than the pleasure of creating. N. Gogol
• Happiness is spending yourself on the creation of your hands, which will live even after your death. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• Did the effort seem fruitless to you? Blind man, step back a few steps... The magic of skillful hands has created masterpieces, hasn't it? But trust me, good luck and bad luck alike made them... Lovely dance born from the ability to dance. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• Everyone is able to do well only what the muse inspires him to do. Plato
• Genius is the talent to create something for which no certain rules. Immanuel Kant
• Great talents are alien to pettiness. O. Balzac
• No one knows what his powers are until he uses them. I. Goethe
• A vocation can be recognized and proved only by the sacrifice that a scientist or artist makes to his peace or well-being in order to give himself up to his vocation. L. Tolstoy
• All kinds of arts serve the greatest of the arts - the art of living on earth. Bertolt Brecht
• Talent is a spark of God, with which a person usually burns himself, illuminating the path of others with this own fire. V. Klyuchevsky
• If you don’t know how to hold an ax in your hand, you won’t cut wood, and if you don’t know the language well, you won’t write beautifully and understandably for everyone. M. Gorky
• Art requires knowledge. Bertolt Brecht
• Creativity is a common cause, created by the solitary. Marina Tsvetaeva
• Art is always, without ceasing, busy with two things. It relentlessly meditates on death and relentlessly creates life. Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
• The job of an artist is to create joy. Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky
• Children should live in a world of beauty, games, fairy tales, music, drawing, fantasy, creativity. Vasily Aleksandrovich Sukhomlinsky
• The third ability of the soul after mind and will is creativity. Vasily Andreevich Zhukovsky
• Brevity is the soul of wit. A. Chekhov
• Creativity is a lofty feat, and feat requires sacrifice. Vasily Ivanovich Kachalov
• Neither an ignorant nor a selfish person can be a significant artist. Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
• Always being dissatisfied is the essence of creativity. Jules Renard
• Music is intelligence embodied in beautiful sounds. Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
• The one who understands what is the meaning human life lies in anxiety and anxiety, already ceases to be an inhabitant. Alexander Alexandrovich Blok
• The layman imagines that for creativity one must wait for inspiration. This is a deep delusion. Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky
• In any work of art, great or small, everything to the last detail depends on the idea. Johann Wolfgang Goethe
• Art is the medium of that which cannot be expressed. Johann Wolfgang Goethe
• The impulse to creativity can be as easily extinguished as it arose if left without food. Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky
• Not a single, even the initial moment of creativity can do without the work of the imagination. Konstantin Sergeevich Stanislavsky
• Learn the science of art and the art of science. Leonardo da Vinci
• The art of living has always been composed mainly of the ability to look ahead. Leonid Maksimovich Leonov
• Let your life be equal to you, let nothing contradict one another, and this is impossible without knowledge and without art, allowing you to know the divine and the human. Lucius Annaeus Seneca (the Younger)
• Creation! Here is a great salvation from suffering, a great relief of life! F. Nietzsche
• Music should strike fire from people's hearts. Ludwig van Beethoven
• The art of living is more like the art of fighting than of dancing. It requires readiness and fortitude both in regard to the sudden and the unforeseen. Marcus Aurelius
• Art is jealous, it requires a person to give himself entirely to it. Michelangelo Buonarotti
• In the hands of talent, everything can serve as a tool for beauty. Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol
• I remember with horror how people who considered themselves educated raged against Wagner, calling his music a cacophony. Obviously, every achievement must go through the ordeal of denial and ridicule. Nicholas Roerich
• Inspiration is such a guest who does not like to visit the lazy. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
• To create is to kill death. Romain Rolland
• Art is honey kept human souls and collected on the wings of deprivation and labor. Theodore Dreiser
• Art may go through times of decline, but it is eternal, like life itself. Fyodor Ivanovich Chaliapin
• Nothing can shake the following axiom in me: every creation bears witness to a creator. François-Marie Arouet Voltaire
• Talent hits the targets ordinary people they cannot hit, and the genius hits targets that ordinary people cannot see. Arthur Schopenhauer
• Almost all talents are at least a bit, yes, poets, even carpenters, if they are talented. Poetry is the inner fire of every talent. Fedor Dostoevsky
• Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity. Henry Haskins
• Denial of one's talent is always a guarantee of talent. W. Shakespeare
• Artists paint with the eyes of love, and only the eyes of love should judge them. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
• The artist is the sensibilities of his country, his class, his ear, eye and heart; he is the voice of his era. Maksim Gorky
• The business of the artist is to resist suffering with all his strength, with all his talent. Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky
• Without a sense of modernity, the artist will remain unrecognized. Mikhail Mikhailovich Prishvin
• Why am I an artist and not a philosopher? Because I think in words, not ideas. Albert Camus
• A true artist expresses what he thinks, without fearing the opposition of age-old prejudices. Auguste Rodin
• The most important thing for an artist is to be excited, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. To be first of all a man, only then - an artist. Auguste Rodin
• A real artist is one in whom we do not notice his creative efforts, and he himself does not notice this. Alexander Fedorovich Losev
• Creativity is a riddle that the artist asks himself. Stanislav Jerzy Lec
• If a talent does not have sufficient power in itself to become in line with its aspirations and enterprises, it produces only barren flowers when you expect it to bear fruit. V. Belinsky
• Talent is faith in yourself, in your strength ... M. Gorky
• Creativity… is an integral, organic property of human nature… It is a necessary property of the human spirit. It is just as legitimate in a person, perhaps, like two hands, like two legs, like a stomach. It is inseparable from man and constitutes a whole with him. F. Dostoevsky
• What is talent? There is talent ... the ability to say or express well where mediocrity will say and express badly. F. Dostoevsky
• The talent of great souls is to recognize the great in other people. N. Karamzin
• Creativity is a lofty feat, and feat requires sacrifice. All sorts of petty and selfish feelings prevent you from creating. And creativity is a selfless service to the art of the people. V. Kachalov
• There is something rarer, more extraordinary, than giftedness. It is the ability to recognize the giftedness of others. G. Lichtenberg
• The impulse to creativity can be as easily extinguished as it arose if left without food. K. Paustovsky
• Where labor turns into creativity, naturally, even physiologically, the fear of death disappears. L. Tolstoy
• Talent, like character, is manifested in the struggle. Some people adapt to circumstances, others defend such necessary human principles as honor, conscientiousness, loyalty. The fixtures are disappearing. The fundamental ones, having overcome all difficulties, remain. V. Uspensky
• Ordinary people are busy only to pass the time; and who has any talent - to take advantage of the time. A. Schopenhauer
• Philistines are unhappy, but at the same time over-happy in their stupidity, which they take for the highest wisdom. Friedrich Engels
• A terrible, unceasing struggle is waged by mediocrity with those who surpass it. Honore de Balzac

Only he is gifted with a happy fate,
He is joyful whose heart is just.

Albukasim Firdousi

What is a poet? A person who writes poetry? Of course not. He is called a poet not because he writes in verse; but he writes in verse, that is, he brings words and sounds into harmony, because he is the son of harmony, a poet.

Alexander Alexandrovich Blok

Truly, art lies in nature; whoever knows how to discover it, owns it.

Albrecht Dürer

A fine imagination is just as necessary for the historian as it is for the poet, for without imagination nothing can be seen, nothing can be understood.

Anatole France

A sense of proportion in art is everything.

Anatole France

Whoever has experienced the pleasure of creativity, for him all other pleasures do not exist.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Happiness is spending yourself on the creation of your hands, which will live even after your death.

Every ascent is painful. Rebirth is painful. Not exhausted, I can not hear the music. Suffering, efforts help the music to sound.

Did the effort seem fruitless to you? Blind man, step back a few steps... The magic of skillful hands has created masterpieces, hasn't it? But trust me, luck and failure have made them alike... A beautiful dance is born from the ability to dance.

Only a bee recognizes hidden sweetness in a flower,
Only an artist senses a beautiful mark on everything.

Afanasy Afanasievich Fet

When I create music, I don't think of it in isolation from the idea.

Benjamin Britten

The unmistakable sign that something is not art, or that one does not understand art, is boredom... Art should be a means of education, but its purpose is pleasure.

Bertolt Brecht

All kinds of arts serve the greatest of the arts - the art of living on earth.

Bertolt Brecht

Art requires knowledge.

Bertolt Brecht

When humanity is destroyed, no more art. Unite beautiful words is not art.

Bertolt Brecht

Started a round dance - dance it to the end.

Bulgarian proverb

Art is always, without ceasing, busy with two things. It relentlessly meditates on death and relentlessly creates life.

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak

Children should live in a world of beauty, games, fairy tales, music, drawing, fantasy, creativity.

Vasily Aleksandrovich Sukhomlinsky

The third faculty of the soul after mind and will is creativity.

Vasily Andreevich Zhukovsky

Creativity is a lofty feat, and feat requires sacrifice.

Vasily Ivanovich Kachalov

Life is not a burden, but the wings of creativity and joy; and if anyone turns it into a burden, then he himself is to blame.

Vikenty Vikentievich Veresaev

Music is the universal language of the world.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

When I listen to music, I hear absolutely distinct answers to all my questions, and everything calms down and clears up in me. Or rather, I feel that these are not questions at all.

Gustav Mahler

In order to discover the laws that belong to the world of primary images, the artist must awaken to life as a person: almost all of his noble feelings, a considerable share of intellect, intuition, and the desire to create must be developed in him.

Delia Steinberg Guzman

The Laws of Art originate not in the material, but in ideal world where Beauty dwells, matter can only indicate the boundaries within which artistic inspiration spreads.

Delia Steinberg Guzman

The Lord created music as common language for people.

When love and skill come together, you can expect a masterpiece.

John Ruskin

Without impressions, enthusiasm, inspiration, without life experience, there is no creativity.

Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich

Always being dissatisfied is the essence of creativity.

Jules Renard

To create art, only the chosen one can,
Every person loves art.

Julien Grun

Music is intelligence embodied in beautiful sounds.

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

The layman imagines that for creativity one must wait for inspiration. This is a deep delusion.

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky

High art not only reflects life, it, by participating in life, changes it.

Ilya Grigorievich Ehrenburg

In any work of art, great or small, everything to the last detail depends on the idea.

Art is the medium of that which cannot be expressed.

The impulse to creativity can be as easily extinguished as it arose if left without food.

Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky

Not a single, even the initial moment of creativity can do without the work of the imagination.

Konstantin Sergeevich Stanislavsky

Simplicity, truth and naturalness are the three great principles of beauty in all works of art.

Christoph Willibald Gluck

Learn the science of art and the art of science.

Leonardo da Vinci

The art of living has always been composed mainly of the ability to look ahead.

Leonid Maksimovich Leonov

Let your life be equal to you, let nothing contradict one another, and this is impossible without knowledge and without art, allowing you to know the divine and the human.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (the Younger)

Music is the mediator between the life of the mind and the life of the senses.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Music should strike fire from people's hearts.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Every genuine piece of music I have an idea.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Others, who love their art, devote themselves entirely to their work, forgetting to wash and eat. You value your nature less than an engraver - engraving, a dancer - dancing, a lover of money - money, an ambitious - glory. Does it seem to you that general useful activity is less significant and less worthy of effort?

Marcus Aurelius

The art of living is more like the art of fighting than of dancing. It requires readiness and fortitude both in regard to the sudden and the unforeseen.

Marcus Aurelius

Most main instrument an artist who develops through constant training is the belief in his ability to work miracles when necessary.

Mark Rothko

Art is jealous, it requires a person to give himself entirely to it.

Michelangelo Buonarotti

Music dominates autocratically and makes you forget about everything else.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

In the hands of talent, everything can serve as a tool for beauty.

Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol

I remember with horror how people who considered themselves educated raged against Wagner, calling his music a cacophony. Obviously, every achievement must go through the ordeal of denial and ridicule.

Nicholas Roerich

A true artist must sacrifice herself to her art. Like a nun, she is not in a position to lead the life that most women want.

Anna Pavlovna Pavlova

The spirit is the master, the imagination is the instrument, the body is the obedient material. Each person has his own inner world, created by the power of imagination. Imagination is generated by the pure and strong desire of the heart. If this power is strong enough to light up every corner of this inner world, then everything that a person thinks about will take shape in his soul.

Paracelsus

Inspiration is such a guest who does not like to visit the lazy.

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Everyone is able to do well only what the muse inspires him to do.

Music inspires the whole world, provides the soul with wings, promotes the flight of the imagination...

The path to the abode of the Muses, alas, is not wide and not straight.