Pierre Bonnard
“Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole.”
Raoul Dufy
“My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.”
Edgar Degas
“Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.”
Friedrich Schiller
“Art is the daughter of freedom.”
Elbert Hubbard
“Art is not a thing; it is a way.”
Constantin Stanislavski
“Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.”
George Henry Lewes
“Insight is the first condition of Art.”
Anatole France
“To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.”
Orson Welles
“The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.”
W. H. Auden
“Art is born of humiliation.”
Ernst Fischer
“I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.”
Roy Lichtenstein
“Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.”
Claude Debussy
“Art is the most beautiful of all lies.”
Henri Rousseau
“Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.”
Le Corbusier
“I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.”
John Stuart Mill
“All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.”
Jean Cocteau
“One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.”
Hans Hofmann
“Through a painting we can see the whole world.”
Isaac Bashevis Singer
“The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.”
Pablo Picasso
“Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.”
Alfred Eisenstaedt
“When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”
Thomas Merton
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Personality is everything in art and poetry.”
Frida Kahlo
“I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I…
Edward Hopper
“If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.”
Emile Zola
“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”
J. Paul Getty
“My love of fine art increased – the more of it I saw, the more…