Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
Art Quotes
Creativity is discontent translated into arts.
“Ah!” said a brave painter to me, thinking on these things, “if a man has failed, you will find he has dreamed instead of working. There is no way to success in our art, but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.”
Artists can color the sky red because they know it’s blue. Those of us who aren’t artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we’re stupid.
A painting is never finished – it simply stops in interesting places.
The true artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.
All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.
Nothing so resembles a daub as a masterpiece.
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely, but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude.
Love art. Of all lies, it is the least untrue.
