Art Quotes

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.

Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

Paint the essential character of things.

Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many.

The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.

Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.

We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant.