An artist never really finishes his work; he merely abandons it.
Art Quotes
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.
More than the painter is required for the creation of great painting, and more than the poet for the exhibition of immortal verse. Painters are but the hands, and poets but the voices, whereby peoples express their accumulated thoughts and permanent emotions. Behind them crowd the generations of the myth-makers; and around them floats the […]
All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work, and in its reception by the public.
The allotted function of art is not, as is often assumed, to put across ideas, to propagate thoughts, to serve as an example. The aim of art is to prepare a person for death, to plough and harrow his soul, rendering it capable of turning to good.
It has become obvious that art itself in America is without what might be called a natural environment. Art and artists often exist in a public climate that is either indifferent or hostile to their profession.
