Art Quotes - Page 20

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.

The best artists know what to leave out.

The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.

Translation is the art of failure.

You don't have to be Picasso or Rembrandt to create something. The fun of it, the joy of creating, is way high above anything else to do with the art form.

Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

Layer by layer art strips life bare.

My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make, it's about talking as clearly as I can.

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.

Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

Surprise is key in all art.

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.

One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.

You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.