An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.
Art Quotes
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.
History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
Art is an attempt to integrate evil.
Art is embedded in nature and they who can extract it, have it.
All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.
Art is the most beautiful deception: and no matter how much a man may wish to make it the setting for his daily life, he must still desire that it remain an illusion lest it become utilitarian, and as dreamy as a workshop. Do not the masses as well as the select few seek therein […]
The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he’s in business.
By the time the child can draw more than scribble, by the age of four or five years, an already well formed body of conceptual knowledge formulated in language dominates his memory and controls his graphic work. Drawings are graphic accounts of essentially verbal processes. As an essentially verbal education gains control, the child abandons […]
