Art quotes

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

My painting does not come from the easel.

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Art is the daughter of freedom.

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.