Art Quotes

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and the banks. It just does that because it is there and the scenery is there. Talent is a fine mirror with a silver frame, with the name of the owner engraved on the back.

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

What we play is life.

So you see, imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.

I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.