Art Quotes

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, si…

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

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

Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one.

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

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

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.

Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

A picture is a poem without words.

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

Art is not a thing it is a way.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

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

Art is the proper task of life.