Art Quotes

Art does not reproduce what we see. It makes us see.

Art my slats! I can paint with a shoestring dipped in lard!

The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.

Art is Nature made by Man To Man the interpreter of God.

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Only God Almighty makes painters.

The whole of art is an appeal to a reality which is not without us but in our minds.

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its own ends through him. As a human being, he may have moods and a will […]

I don’t paint to live, I live to paint.

Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.