Art Quotes

It's clever, but is it Art?

The goal of art was the vital expression of self.

An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Art is the most beautiful of all lies.

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

Layer by layer art strips life bare.

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.