Art Quotes

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

Art must take reality by surprise.

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

The best artists know what to leave out.

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.

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

Great artists suffer for the people.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.

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

Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.