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Art quotes

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

What we play is life.

Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.

The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

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

Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

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.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

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

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Repetition is the death of art.

I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

What I dream of is an art of balance.

I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Creativity is...seeing something that doesn't exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

So you see, imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

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