Art Quotes

Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.

The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does.

I don’t paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

Time extracts various values from a painter’s work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

The value of art is not beauty, but right action.

It is well with me when only when I have a chisel in my hand.