A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar.
Art Quotes
The world today doesn’t make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
My mother said to me, “If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general; if you become a monk, you’ll end up as the pope.” Instead, I became a painter, and wound up Picasso.
A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
Nothing can come out of an artist that is not in the man.
Manet wanted one day to paint my wife and children. Renoir was there. He took a canvas and began painting them, too. After a while, Manet took me aside and whispered, “You’re on very good terms with Renoir and take an interest in his future – do advise him to give up painting! You can […]
The notion that artists flourish upon adversity and misunderstanding, that they are able to function to the utmost in an atmosphere of indifference or hostility – this notion is nine-tenths nonsense.
One puts into one’s art what one has not been capable of putting into one’s existence. It is because he was unhappy that God created the world.
