Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.
Art Quotes
It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry… If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don’t need.
The artist needs but a roof, a crust of bread, and his easel, and all the rest God gives him in abundance. He must live to paint and not paint to live.
Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.
The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.
Art and science are two sides of the same coin. Science is a discipline pursued with passion; art is a passion pursued with discipline. At pursuing both, I’ve had a lot of fun.
Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
Art being quite useless, except to the soul, is the highest of all human endeavors.
What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.
