When you’re looking at your canvas and worrying about it, try to think of your canvas as the reality and the model as the painted thing.
Art Quotes
Art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship… In former days the artist remained unknown and his work was to the glory of God.
I believe in art that conceals art.
An artist must only judge what he understands; his field is just as restricted as any other specialists.
Art is I; science is we.
What is art But life upon the larger scale, the higher, When, graduating up in a spiral line Of still expanding and ascending gyres, It pushes toward the intense significance Of all things, hungry for the Infinite? Art’s life, – and where we live, we suffer and toil.
An artist’s flair is sometimes worth a scientist’s brains.
There are two devices which can help the sculptor to judge his work: one is not to see it for a while – the other – whenever he has not the leisure for the former – is to look at his work through spectacles which will change its color and magnify or diminish it, so […]
One may do whatever one likes in art: the only thing is to make sure that one does not like it.
If Michelangelo painted in Caesar’s Palace, would that make it any less art?
