Art Metaphors, Analogies and Similes

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In art we bequeath publicly our private thoughts. We put something of ourselves into our art, poems and writing. Such art will outlast our bodies, our government and communities.
The Bust outlasts the Throne.

Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.

John Ruskin

I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me every after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.

Emily Bronte

Naïve artistic pretension gets lost up it's own cul-de-sac attending avant-garde semi-theatrical events that, strangely, nobody wants to see in their country of origin.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Art is not a mirror to reflect the world, but a hammer with which to shape it.

Photography is a language, so there's no need to debate if it's art or not.

The best zoom lens has legs.

We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

Pablo Picasso

To love is the only way to penetrate into a thing. To understand God, one must love Him; to understand a woman, one must love her; understanding is in proportion to love. Thus, the best way to understand a work of art is to become the lover of it.

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

Jean Cocteau

Try drawing the images screened on your own mental multiplex.

Artistic integrity which generates cash is as likely as a successful oil well flowing from a monastery vegetable garden.

Your sculpture looks like a child's first attempt with plasticine; an unfortunate child who later gets examined by a doctor and sent home.

She was cadaverously shaped at odd angles like a Picasso mademoiselle.

Her fashion ideas were stacked up like when too many planes circle above an airport.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

John Steinbeck