Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.
Art Quotes
A sailor complained to Picasso that his paintings were not realistic, and then took out a tiny snapshot of his child for the painter to see. Picasso squinted seriously at the snapshot and handed it back to the father, merely saying, “Small, isn’t she?”
There is perhaps, no more dangerous man in the world than the man with the sensibilities of an artist but without creative talent. With luck such men make wonderful theatrical impresarios and interior decorators, or else they become mass murderers or critics. (Dame Edna)
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
I don’t mind being miserable as long as I’m painting well.
“You don’t like van Gogh?” he countered. “Then name me six of his paintings and tell me why you don’t like them.” I couldn’t, of course. And he said, “Leave the room, and until you know what you’re talking about, don’t come back with your opinions to the dinner table.” (speaking of her father John […]
The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.
Art is still the only place in the world where you can do exactly what you want if you pay the price, which is having no one else want it.
It is the assumption of this book that a work of art is a gift, not a commodity. Or, to state the modern case with more precision, that works of art exist simultaneously in two “economies,” a market economy and a gift economy. Only one of these is essential, however: a work of art can […]
Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure; yet it is the same with this art as with all others: only the capacity for it is innate; the art itself must be learned and painstakingly practiced.
