Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
Art quotes
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Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
I cry out for order and find it only in art.
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
Even a true artist does not always produce art.
Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
All art is but imitation of nature.
Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.