Raoul Dufy
“My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.”
Jerzy Kosinski
“The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.”
Charles Horton Cooley
“Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.”
Andre Gide
“There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.”
Harry S Truman
“Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.”
Egon Schiele
“Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.”
Ernst Fischer
“I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.”
Samuel Beckett
“To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist…
Paul Cezanne
“A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.”
Amy Lowell
“Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of…
John Singer Sargent
“A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.”
Georges Braque
“There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.”
Andrew Wyeth
“It’s all in how you arrange the thing… the careful balance of the design is…
Vincent Van Gogh
“I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.”
Thomas Merton
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
Pierre Bonnard
“The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.”
Susan Sontag
“Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.”
Georgia O’Keeffe
“To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.”
Salvador Dali
“Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is…
Theodor W. Adorno
“Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.”
Diane Arbus
“I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn’t photograph them.”
Emily Carr
“Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own,…
Eugene Delacroix
“The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.”
Jeff Rich
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“We have art in order not to die of the truth.”
Agnes Martin
“My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever…
Jackson Pollock
“Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.”
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.”
W. Somerset Maugham
“Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.”
Marc Chagall
“I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment.”