The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.
Art Quotes
Do not imagine you can exorcise what oppresses you in life by giving vent to it in art.
Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.
Human life is a sad show, undoubtedly: ugly, heavy and complex. Art has no other end, for people of feeling, than to conjure away the burden and bitterness.
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
O painter, take care lest the greed for gain prove stronger incentive than renown in art, for to gain this renown is a far greater thing than the renown of riches.
The aristocrat looks upon artists as manual laborers. He prefers the art of life to the life of art.
An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.
Thirst will parch your tongue and your body will waste through lack of sleep ere you can describe in words that which painting instantly sets before the eye.
And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art.
