Why do you try to understand
art? Do you try to understand
the song of a bird?
Pablo Picasso
I want to touch people with my art.
I want them to say 'he feels
deeply, he feels tenderly.'
Vincent Van Gogh
You have to systematically create
confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything
that is contradictory creates life.
Salvador Dali
I found I could say things with color
and shapes that I couldn't say any other
way -- things I had no words for.
Georgia O'Keeffe
I want to make high art that is funny,
outrageous and also reveals the human
condition, which is not always high.
Robert Arneson
Art is not the bread,
but the wine of life.
John Paul Richter
Paradoxically though it may seem,
it is none the less true that life imitates
art far more than art imitates life.
Oscar Wilde
The emotions are sometimes so
strong that I work without knowing it.
The strokes come like speech.
Vincent Van Gogh
Art is idea. It is not enough to
draw, paint, and sculpt. An
artist should be able to think.
Gordon Woods
Art is lies that tell the truth.
Piccaso
The aim off art is to represent not
the outward appearance of things,
but their inward significance.
Aristotle
Art is made to disturb. Science
reassures. There is only one
valuable thing in art: the thing
you cannot explain.
Georges Braque
He who works with his hands is a laborer.
He who works with his hands and his head is
a craftsman. He who works with his hands
and his head and his heart is an artist.
St Fancis of Assisi
A great artist? must be shaken by
the naked truths that will not be
comforted. This divine discontent,
this disequilibrium, this state of inner
tension is the source of artistic energy.
Goethe
There are three forms of visual art:
Painting is art to look at, sculpture is
art you can walk around, and architecture
is art you can walk through.
Dan Rice
I build a painting by putting little
marks together--some look like
hot dogs, some like doughnuts.
Chuck Close
Precision is not reality
Henri Mattisse
I never paint dreams or nightmares.
I paint my own reality.
Frida Kahlo
All art is an individual's
xpression of a culture. Cultures
differ, so art looks different.
Henry Glassie
As music is the poetry of sound, so is
painting the poetry of sight and the
subject-matter has nothing to do
with harmony of sound or of color.
James Mcneill Whistler
The longer you look at an
object, the more abstract it
becomes, and, ironically,
the more real.
Lucian Freud
Colour is my day-long obsession,
joy and torment.
Claude Monet
A man paints with his brains
and not with his hands.
Michelangelo
The essence of all art is to have
pleasure in giving pleasure.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Art is a jealous mistress and if a
man has a genius for painting, poetry,
music, architecture or philosophy, he
makes a bad husband and
an ill provider
Ralph Waldo Emerson
