“A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.”
“You Use a Glass Mirror to See Your Face; You Use Works of Art to See Your Soul.”
“Art is the stored honey of the human soul.”
“A great artist is always before his time or behind it.”
“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.”
“Anything that you’re willing to practice, you can do.”
“A Good artist has less time than ideas.”
“REAL ART IS RELIGION, A SEARCH FOR THE
BEAUTY OF GOD DEEP IN ALL THINGS”
“A great artist exploits bad moods, set-backs and misfortunes, and converts them into works of art."
“Painting is self- discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.”
“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth”
“The world of reality has its limits: the world of imagination is boundless.”
“One can speak poetry just by
arranging
colors well.”
“Art is nothing but
humanized science.”
“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.”
“Artist lives to have stories to tell and to learn to tell them well."
“One’s art goes as far and as deep as one’s love goes.”
“The painter has the universe in his mind and hands.”
“if you want
to reach the depths of her soul, look into her eyes like you’re not afraid
to drown”
“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”
“Every artist was first an amateur.”
“The aim of art is not to represent the outward appearance of things, but their
inward significance.”
“Artists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust their great artists.”
“A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.”
““The great artist is the simplifier.””
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
“Philosophers and aestheticians may offer elegant and profound definitions of art and beauty, but for the painter they are all summed up in this phrase: to create a harmony.”
“The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t
there before.”
“If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.”
“In art there are tears that lie too
deep for thought”
"I DON'T PAINT THE WORLD I SEE,
I PAINT THE WORLD
I FEEL."
“Art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take risks.”
“In our life there is a single color, as on an artist’s palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.”
“If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.”
“The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire, and before art is born the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.”