Art Quotes

The aim off art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Art is lies that tell the truth.

Art is idea. It is not enough to draw, paint, and sculpt. An artist should be able to think.

The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Art is not the bread, but the wine of life.

I want to make high art that is funny, outrageous and also reveals the human condition, which is not always high.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way -- things I had no words for.

You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life.

I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say 'he feels deeply, he feels tenderly.'

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined.

Bad artists always admire each other's work.

Contrary to popular belief, an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs.

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to: the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Art… the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.