Art quotes

When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Trying to force creativity is never good.

The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.

The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.