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Art Quotes


Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

Even a true artist does not always produce art.

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

Every artist was first an amateur.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

Every good painter paints what he is.

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

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

Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.

I cry out for order and find it only in art.

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.

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