Stanley Kubrick
“If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.”
Jean Rostand
“Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.”
James Whistler
“An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.”
Baltasar Gracian
“Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to…
Alfred North Whitehead
“Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.”
William Morris Hunt
“The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.”
Franz Liszt
“Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.”
Rebecca West
“Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.”
Edgar Degas
“Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.”
Raoul Dufy
“My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.”
George Henry Lewes
“Insight is the first condition of 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.”
Alfred Eisenstaedt
“When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.”
Thomas Merton
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
Edward Hopper
“If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.”
Jerzy Kosinski
“The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.”
Edward Dmytryk
“In art, the obvious is a sin.”
Beatrice Wood
“And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just…
Robert Mapplethorpe
“To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.”
Clara Schumann
“My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.”
Charles de Lint
“The best artists know what to leave out.”
Havelock Ellis
“Man lives by imagination.”
Ashley Montagu
“The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.”
Corita Kent
“That’s why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with…
Georges Braque
“Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.”
Jeff Rich
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”