Art Quotes

The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.

I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture.

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

Insight is the first condition of Art.

It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

You begin with the possibilities of the material.

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

The history of art is the history of revivals.

It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.