The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements.
Art Quotes
Let us suppose for a moment that the Western world has been hugely fragmented and splintered in its consciousness and its individualism for many centuries. And that under electric conditions it is being integrated and merged together again at a very fast clip. The question for us is, all right, if this is happening, what […]
Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.
It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
Painting is the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.
Whoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist. To make living itself an art, that is the goal.
Great artists are modest almost as seldom as they are faithful to their wives.
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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 […]
