Celebrate the Arts, and Learn More About Them

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"What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real." -- Rabindranath Tagore

Katherine Tyrrell is known as MakingAMark here on Squidoo. She has an amazing niche called Resources for Artists. She's used Squidoo to explore dozens of art topics including mediums like pastels and colored pencils, blogging for artists, art techniques such as still life and color science, and even individual artists like Monet and Rembrandt.

EditionH is the Squidoo screen name of Martin Stankewitz, a talented German artist who creates exquisite monotype prints. He has created more than 40 lenses on Squidoo, mostly centered on art techniques such as How to Draw a Tree, How to Draw Buildings and Houses, and Drawing the Urban Landscape.

"I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor." -- John Berger

"Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man."
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important." -- Luis Bunuel

"Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter."
-- Paul Klee

"To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams."
-- Giorgio de Chirico

"O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives."
-- Jim Morrison

"My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was fifty years old. But at that time I felt as though I had the strength for new deeds and ideas."
-- Edvard Munch

"All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness."
-- Eckhart Tolle

"Art is science made clear." -- Jean Cocteau