You say that we need to move towards light and colors. No. Here too our task is content. The face, the spirit of a person, the drama of life, impressions of nature, its life and meaning, the spirit of history – those are our themes, it seems to me. Paints for us are a tool. […]
Art Quotes
Art means to dare – and to have been right.
Nothing is so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.
A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.
(An art article by Thomas Hoving) starts with a common apologia for modernist drips and splatters: “All art’s abstract.” With this statement he attempts to confer authenticity on talentless charlatans like Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock, as if their splotches and splatters could somehow reasonably be compared to Rembrandt, David, Ingres or Bouguereau. If you […]
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through.
I do not say therefore that the art is greatest which gives most pleasure, because perhaps there is some art whose end it is to teach and not to please. I do not say the art is greatest which teaches the most, because there is some art whose end it is to please and not […]
When he (W. B. Yeats) sat for me he wore a velvet coat and a huge loose bow tie and a big lock of hair fell across his brow. He told me that he did these things to remind himself of his own importance as an artist! “Why,” quietly interrupted Fox, “didn’t he tie a […]
Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
