Art Beat: The art of everything

Hi, my name is Jacob Mann. I cover the Art Beat for the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman.

Art means different things to different people, even those doing the same thing.

Here’s some pick-me-up quotes to encourage any and all to follow their inner creative child.

“Art is a line around your thoughts.” – Gustav Klimt

“Art should be something that liberates your soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further.” – Keith Haring

“The true use of art is, first, to cultivate the artist’s own spiritual nature.” – George Inness

“The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.” – Jerzy Kosinski

“If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.” – Edward Hopper

“You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” – Ansel Adams

“The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.”

– John Steinbeck

“The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood.”

– Alan Sillitoe

“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.” – Leonardo da Vinci

“Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.” – Georgia O’Keeffe

“Creativity takes courage.” – Henri Matisse

“Every artist was first an amateur.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it.” – Salvador Dalí

“We don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents.” – Bob Ross

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” – Pablo Picasso

“Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.” – Andy Warhol

“There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.” – Helen Frankenthaler