Art Quotes

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

I will preach with my brush.

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

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.

I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.

The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.

Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

I am not strong on perfection.

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.