Art Quotes

Art has no function. It is not necessary. It has nothing to do with what anyone wants you to do or wants it to be, nothing but you and itself. The work generates itself and ideas and progress and learning come out of doing the work in a particular way. Creative art is a learning […]

A painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

There is no such thing as modern art. There is art – and there is advertising.

An artist never really finishes his work; he merely abandons it.

To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts – such is the duty of the artist.

Art is a staple, like bread or wine or a warm coat in winter. Man’s spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.

The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.

A poet must write, an artist must paint, and musicians must make music if they are to be at peace within themselves. What we can be, we must be.

I am sick of shit masquerading as art.