Art Quotes

Art can only be truly Art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

Art is the path of the creator to his work.

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

“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.