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
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance; for this, not the external mannerism and detail, is true reality.
The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery.
The feeling of desperation and unhappiness are more useful to an artist than the feeling of contentment, because desperation and unhappiness stretch your whole sensibility.
Art is man’s nature; nature is God’s art.
Chagall is my favorite pupil, and what I like about him is that after listening attentively to my lessons he takes his paints and brushes and does something absolutely different from what I have told him.
Everyone wants an artist on the wall or on the shelf, but nobody wants him in the house.
A vandal is somebody who throws a brick through a window. An artist is somebody who paints a picture on that window. A great artist is somebody who paints a picture on the window and then throws a brick through it.
Do not imagine that Art is something which is designed to give gentle uplift and self-confidence. Art is not a brassiere. At least, not in the English sense. But do not forget that brassiere is the French word for life-jacket.
