The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can’t have both.
Art Quotes
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance… and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
Art is self-conscious, not spontaneous; it exists to shield us from sordid reality, not to reflect it; it is partisan rather than disinterested, and its meanings are quite independent of whatever the author intended.
Every artist was first an amateur.
In art, as in love, instinct is enough.
The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.
Art is a jealous mistress, and, if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband, and an ill provider, and should be wise in season, and not fetter himself with duties which will embitter his days, and spoil him for his proper work.
It is in order to really see, to see ever deeper, ever more intensely, hence to be fully aware and alive, that I draw what the Chinese call ‘The Ten Thousand Things’ around me. Drawing is the discipline by which I constantly rediscover the world. I have learned that what I have not drawn, I […]
To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.
Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form. But true art is never fixed, but always flowing.
