A great work of art is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
Art Quotes
For an impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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.
When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God-made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, free man.
Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
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 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.
