Paul Gauguin
“Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts.”
Hans Hofmann
“A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the…
William Blake
“The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel’d to heaven is no artist.”
Mary Leakey
“The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.”
Arne Jacobsen
“If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.”
Hippocrates
“Life is short, the art long.”
Oscar Wilde
“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of…
Tadao Ando
“My hand is the extension of the thinking process – the creative process.”
Henri Matisse
“I don’t paint things. I only paint the difference between things.”
Audre Lorde
“Art is not living. It is the use of living.”
Victor Hugo
“A great artist is a great man in a great child.”
Flannery O’Connor
“The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.”
Elizabeth Bowen
“Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.”
Robert Motherwell
“Wherever art appears, life disappears.”
James Joyce
“Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools…
James Taylor
“That’s the motivation of an artist – to seek attention of some kind.”
Pablo Picasso
“The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.”
Marc Chagall
“Great art picks up where nature ends.”
George Sand
“The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.”
Francoise Sagan
“Art must take reality by surprise.”
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.”
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.”