Art Quotes

I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

One eye sees, the other feels.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

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

With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.

When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance.

An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures.

An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public.

An empty canvas is full.

Art is pattern informed by sensibility.

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

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.

I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.