Art quotes

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

In art the best is good enough.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one.

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.