Art Quotes

• I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

• Painting in watercolor is like walking a tight-rope; one must achieve a perfect balance between what the paint wants to do and what the artist wants to do, or all is lost.

• Art has never been made while thinking of art.

• It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

• I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

• The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explination.

• If I've learned one thing in the 14 years I've been a full-time cartoonist, it's that you can not let anyone else define your professionalism. It has to be a personal ethos to which you adhere despite third party influence or acceptance. The old measuring sticks for professionalism are going away and now more than ever it's time for independent creatives to set the bar. Set it high.

• Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth.

• An authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

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

• There is no better deliverance from the world than through art; and a man can form no surer bond with it than through art.

• Without art the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

• One reassuring thing about modern art is that things can't be as bad as they are painted.

• Our creations MUST be shared to be art, and the easiest way to share our art is to sell it.

• I don't understand why people think everything has to have meaning. While painting the Mona Lisa did Leonardo Da Vinci intend for it to have greater meaning than a work of art that he made?

• The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.

• Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

• [Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

• I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

• I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

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