Art Quotes

The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

Trying to force creativity is never good.

Every artist was first an amateur.

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

In art, the obvious is a sin.

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.