Jane UrquhartArt is a kind of mining, " he said. "The artist a variety of prospector searching for the sparkling silver of meaning in the earth.
About This Quote
This is a quote by Pablo Picasso. He was known as the father of modern art. Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain, in 1881. He developed an interest in painting at a young age.
When he was 12 years old, he started making drawings. He also painted murals, sculptures and prints. He was attracted to the idea of creating art out of objects or people.
When he was 25, he started making paintings with his friends.
Source: The Underpainter
Some Similar Quotes
- Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.
- It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.
- Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.
- Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.
- There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
More Quotes By Jane Urquhart
- Art is a kind of mining, " he said. "The artist a variety of prospector searching for the sparkling silver of meaning in the earth.
- I don't know what I mean, but I know I believe it.
- When one embraces a moment of rapture from the past, either by trying to reclaim it or by refusing to let it go, how can its brightness not tarnish, turn grey with longing and sorrow, until the wild spell of the remembered interlude is lost...
- Someday, " Joseph said to his granddaughter, "someday something will happen and you will want to go back to the carving. You won't be able to prevent yourself; that's just the way it is. The world always somehow takes us back to the chisel. Something...