Ellen Gilchrist Quotes

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

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.

I fell in love with beauty a long, long time ago, but what I wanted was to create beauty - not to be blinded by it.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.

Art is about the messy and marvelous business of coming to your senses - and also, to the senses of the world.

It is the gift of seeing the life around them clearly and vividly, as something that is exciting in its own right. It is an innate gift, varying in intensity with the individual's temperament and environment.

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

And muse on Nature with a poet's eye.

To love beauty is to see light.

I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings.

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

Wonder and awe are the diet of the artist and without them the world would be far less meaningful to us than it is.

The landscape painter must walk in the fields with a humble mind. No arrogant man was ever permitted to see Nature in all her beauty.

I have so much love for art.

Sometimes it's a beautiful face, sometimes it's a place. I am inspired by everything.

Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.

Art is always the replacement of indifference by attention.