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.
Art Quotes
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.
Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
If I didn’t start painting, I would have raised chickens. (Anna Mary Robertson)
Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue.
Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers – and never succeeding.
I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene. (Anna Mary Robertson)
It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.
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.
