Peter Max
“If I didn’t choose art, I would have become an astronomer.”
Marc Chagall
“All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.”
Willem de Kooning
“An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.”
Iris Murdoch
“All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.”
Willa Cather
“The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist,…
Jawaharlal Nehru
“The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.”
Ellen Key
“The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.”
Georgia O’Keeffe
“I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could…
Grandma Moses
“If you know somethin’ well, you can always paint it but people would be better…
Jean Cocteau
“An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.”
Andy Warhol
“I’m afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of…
John Ruskin
“Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man…
Pablo Picasso
“I do not seek. I find.”
Peter Ustinov
“If Botticelli were alive today he’d be working for Vogue.”
Louis Dudek
“Art is anything people do with distinction.”
Francis Bacon
“The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.”
Oscar Wilde
“It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.”
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
“Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.”
Robert Motherwell
“Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.”
Rene Magritte
“Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.”
Albert Einstein
“True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.”
Michelangelo
“The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.”
Guru Nanak
“From its brilliancy everything is illuminated.”
Hedy Lamarr
“A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company,…
Joan Miro
“The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.”
Frida Kahlo
“Painting completed my life.”
George Jean Nathan
“Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.”
Jack Levine
“Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.”
Alfred Stieglitz
“The goal of art was the vital expression of self.”
Jeff Koons
“I think about my work every minute of the day.”