Art Quotes

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Creativity is...seeing something that doesn't exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God.

Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Life isn't long enough for love and art.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.

By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.