Paul Cezanne
“Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.”
Frida Kahlo
“I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.”
Edward Steichen
“Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.”
Gustave Courbet
“I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one…
Paul Klee
“A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.”
William Hazlitt
“Rules and models destroy genius and art.”
Tadao Ando
“There is a role and function for beauty in our time.”
Anton Chekhov
“There is nothing new in art except talent.”
Balthus
“Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the…
Philip Guston
“To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.”
Theodore Bikel
“No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
“No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.”
Marcel Duchamp
“I don’t believe in art. I believe in artists.”
Stella Adler
“Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.”
David Hockney
“What I didn’t know was I was deeply attracted to the big space.”
Lewis Mumford
“To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.”
Iris Murdoch
“Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than…
Sol LeWitt
“Minimalism wasn’t a real idea – it ended before it started.”
Henri Matisse
“Creativity takes courage.”
Louis Dudek
“The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first…
Terri Windling
“Filmmaking can be a fine art.”
Michelangelo
“A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.”
Charles Dudley Warner
“A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.”
Arthur Erickson
“Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.”
Robert Rauschenberg
“An empty canvas is full.”
Alfred Sisley
“Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love.”
Henry Ossawa Tanner
“I will preach with my brush.”
Jackson Pollock
“I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has…
Camille Pissarro
“Paint the essential character of things.”
Robert Delaunay
“Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.”