Art Quotes

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes – ah, that is where the art resides.

Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting.

Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.

Great art presupposes the alert mind of the educated listener.

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.