Those who try to explain a picture are most of the time on the wrong track. Gertrude Stein announced to me joyously some time ago that she had at last understood what my picture represented: three musicians. It was a still life!
Art Quotes
It doesn’t make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.
It has been said that a masterpiece operates like a natural force, and it is true that the great forces of the universe have in them such power as elevates us. The great forces of art dominate and silence in us the chatter of our passing individuality and recall us to the sense of our […]
What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears if he is a musician, or a lyre at every level of his heart if he is a poet, or, if he is merely a boxer, only his muscle? On the contrary, he […]
True Ease in Writing comes from Art, not Chance, As those move easiest who have learn’d to dance, ‘Tis not enough no Harshness gives Offence, The Sound must seem an Eccho to the Sense. Soft is the Strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth Stream in smoother Numbers flows; But when loud Surges lash […]
Art is a form of catharsis.
As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes – and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done.
All nature is but art, unknown to thee; all chance, direction, which thou canst not see; all discord, harmony not understood; all partial evil, universal good.
Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun.
