Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.
Art Quotes
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Art is science made clear.
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.
Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
Art is a habit-forming drug. That’s all it is for the artist, for the collector, for anybody connected with it. Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth. People speak of it with great, religious reverence, but I don’t see why it is to be so much revered. I’m afraid I’m an agnostic when […]
When you’ve painted for years and discovered finally that you never get any nearer to a real mastery over your trade a lot of very doubtful moments come on. Such moments increase with the years, and, no matter what your success, they keep occurring.
Art is the only thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
