Art quotes

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many.

I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.

I paint with shapes.

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.

You begin with the possibilities of the material.

When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.

Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.

Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.