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.
Art Quotes
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 […]
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.
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
