Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.
Art Quotes
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.
You know, I have a theory about the decay of art in advanced civilizations. Perhaps it’s a joke, but I believe it may be serious. It is that people want to make ugly things, but at the beginning their tools don’t allow them to. When you find figures or vases in Mycenae or Guatemala or […]
It is the artist’s business to create sunshine when the sun fails.
An artist may visit a museum, but only a pedant can live there.
I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child… I want a red to be sonorous, to sound like a bell; if it doesn’t turn out that way, I add more reds and other colors until I get it. . . I am no cleverer than […]
