Spirit
Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
Leonardo da Vinci
To me, art is the glorification of the human spirit.
Hans Hoffman
A work of art is finished, from the point of view of the artist, when feeling and perception have resulted in a spiritual synthesis.
Hans Hofmann
The best way to know God is to love many things.
Vincent Van Gogh
Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbor.
Giotto Di Bondone
Painting is a means of self-enlightenment.
Claes Oldenburg
Creativity is the voice of the spirit.
Maritza Burgos
Getting into alignment with our truth is like opening the door to destiny.
Linda Saccoccio
It is connecting the outer and inner states of being with the mystery of the unknown that reveals the visual statement with awe.
Linda Saccoccio
Wonder takes us beyond our limitations by providing an expansive breath of fresh air to sustain the soul of creativity, and creativity allows the spirit to thrive.
Linda Saccoccio
First, one seeks to become an artist by training the hand. Then one finds it is the eye that needs improving. Later one learns it is the mind that wants developing, only to find that the ultimate quest of the artist is in the spirit.
Larry Brullo
The spirit must be felt so intensely that it has power to call others in passing, for it must pass, not stop in the pictures...
Emily Carr
Every work of art which really moves us is in some degree a revelation: it changes us.
Lawren Harris
Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.
Robert Henri
Practical tips and spiritual practice can seem to be on opposite sides, but I think one really needs both. Without the spiritual dimension what is the point?
Margot Hattingh
We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through the fabric of illusion. Many refuse to admit it: I feel a mystery exists. There are certain times, when, as on the whisper of the wind, there comes a clear and quiet realization that there is indeed a presence in the world, a nonhuman entity that is not necessarily inhuman.
Ansel Adams
Being spiritual simply means being willing to look into the nature of life, to ask questions, to listen, and to wonder. It also means seeing art everywhere.
Quang Ho
For me, painting is like meditation.
Janet Fish
Never forget that it is the spirit with which you endow your work that makes it useful or futile.
Adelaide Hasse
The artist's quest is to succeed in combining and balancing all compositional attributes and physical elements into those that are purely spiritual. That is the secret of art.
Edward J. Fraughton
The measure of the artist is to have the eye to see the spirit underlying the particulars, and the skill to capture both in paint.
Marney Ward
I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.
Henri Matisse
The language of art is celestial in origin and can only be understood by the chosen.
El Greco
People have experiences in art museums today that they used to have in church.
Bill Viola
I'm trying to touch people, trying to reach out to a common spirituality.
Max Ferguson
Every man who steeps himself in the spiritual possibilities of his heart is a valuable helper in the building of the spiritual pyramid which will someday reach to heaven.
Wassily Kandinsky
When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.
Robert Mapplethorpe
In the brush doing what it's doing, it will stumble on what one couldn't do by oneself.
Robert Motherwell
Painting is saying "Ta" to God.
Stanley Spencer
I can say that paintings are prayers, they have to do with anything that makes you wish for more that what everyday life provides.
Susan Rothenberg
Creative artists are mankind's awakeners: through the language of metaphor we are the summoners of the outward mind to conscious contact with our inner selves as spirit.
Ran Andrews
Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.
Rembrandt
The soul cannot thrive in the absence of art.
Henry Moore
To send light into the darkness of men's hearts, such is the duty of the artist.
Robert Schumann
It's not about what it is made of, nor how it is made, it's about inspiration of function that renders the soul which makes craft "art." Craft is based on functionality and spirituality is the basis of art.
Jacques Vesery
A great work of art is that which moves and touches one's spirit and adds to one's experience of the world, but does not impose on one's values. It lets one take from it what one wants or needs.
Maritza Burgos
Art is Alchemy. As we are multiple in One -all vibrating energy- sensations occur at multiple levels within us, whether consciously or unconsciously. Layering is within our environment, our world, our perception, as it is within our selves.
Elle Nicolai
It is when eternity rests in the moment and the moment rests in eternity, where I just AM, I am the painting.
Majbritt Leth
The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.
Edvard Munch
To create is to celebrate one's connection to the cosmos.
Burnell Yow!
No other concept challenges the mind as powerfully as spiritual oneness, because oneness is total and has no opposite.
Philippe Benichou
To transmit the spirit, there must be form. When the form, the mind and the hand are in total accord, each forgetting the other's separate existence, then the spirit will reside in your work.
Tung Ch'i-Ch'ang
Creation is the product of synchronizing our energy with the universe. Once we experience the whole and recognize it, we become aware that we are nothing but the Divine Creative Force.
Rassouli
Creative artists are mankind's awakeners: through the language of metaphor we are the summoners of the outward mind to conscious contact with our inner selves as spirit.
Ran Andrews
Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.
Robert Henri
Just because a critic does not see the spiritual in contemporary art doesn't mean it doesn't exist or that it is no longer valid as defined by their definition of spiritual.
Phillip John Charette
I do not paint by sight but by faith. Faith gives you vision.
Amos Ferguson
God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
Camille Pissarro
I believe that the teyotl or wave of life is at the core of imagination and the creative impulse, the driving force in nature and human evolution, the seed of eternal transformation.
Juan Javier Pescador
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