Art quotes

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

By the work one knows the workman.

I think about my work every minute of the day.

Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.

The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.

My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.

To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.

An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.

I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.

Wherever art appears, life disappears.