The Best Art Quotes on the Web

October 2, 2015 · by Gina D. · in Good Advice, World of Fashion

Can You Paint With All the Colors of the Wind? … Back when Pocahontas asked me if I can can? I was determined to live by the YES! … and I did. Over the years I learned a few things about colors, like the colors of ones ora … the colors your soul keeps. Art is a lovely thing ♡ Last week when I was editing pictures from fashion week, I came across a few that just put me in an artsy mood.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

— Pablo Picasso

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

— Aristotle

I love art and the reason I chose some of these quotes as I did — aka best art quotes ever — is because these wise words were spoken to guide generations to come. Art was an understanding that developed so far back that we can’t even begin to truly understand … as art is formed with just a thought.

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

— Jonathan Swift

Art is the ying to the reality of yang — whose interaction influences the destinies of creatures and things. Art is an emotion, it’s taking factual things and bringing the emotion out of it. It’s the tool a visionary uses, a leader portrays, and mother nature breathes.

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Backstage with designer Jay Godfrey for NYFW SS16

When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.

— Agnes Martin

With the beautiful Bianca Jade founder of Mizzfit

Wearing my NAVEDA Couture ♡

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

Dorothea Lange

Photography has and always will be one of the greatest inventions or discoveries made. It has allowed us to visually experience a time or place that has long passed. The purpose of a great photograph is to raise emotions, an art form of your being.

We don’t realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.

― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

— John F. Kennedy

Backstage with Jay Godfrey SS16 NYFW

This picture above is one of my favorites — it’s just a millennial type of moment captured. A photograph of Jay Godfrey’s SS16 NYFW presentation capturing a selfie and a photo of the photo. The pictures below are from his collection during our backstage access. Fashion afterall is an art and designers are inspirational artists.