The art of one period cannot be approached through the attitudes (emotional or intellectual) of another.
Art Quotes
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Art is my cousin Art.
Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist knows how difficult it is.
I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterises prayer too, and the eye of the storm. I think art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction
A great work of art is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
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.
