Art quotes

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.

Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

A picture is a poem without words.

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

Art is not a thing it is a way.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

Art is the proper task of life.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.