Art Quotes
Art is a jealous mistress and if a
man has a genius for painting, poetry,
music, architecture or philosophy, he
makes a bad husband and
an ill provider
The essence of all art is to have
pleasure in giving pleasure.
A man paints with his brains
and not with his hands.
Colour is my day-long obsession,
joy and torment.
The longer you look at an
object, the more abstract it
becomes, and, ironically,
the more real.
As music is the poetry of sound, so is
painting the poetry of sight and the
subject-matter has nothing to do
with harmony of sound or of color.
All art is an individual's
xpression of a culture. Cultures
differ, so art looks different.
I never paint dreams or nightmares.
I paint my own reality.
I build a painting by putting little
marks together--some look like
hot dogs, some like doughnuts.
There are three forms of visual art:
Painting is art to look at, sculpture is
art you can walk around, and architecture
is art you can walk through.
A great artist? must be shaken by
the naked truths that will not be
comforted. This divine discontent,
this disequilibrium, this state of inner
tension is the source of artistic energy.
He who works with his hands is a laborer.
He who works with his hands and his head is
a craftsman. He who works with his hands
and his head and his heart is an artist.
Art is made to disturb. Science
reassures. There is only one
valuable thing in art: the thing
you cannot explain.
The aim off art is to represent not
the outward appearance of things,
but their inward significance.