‘Whose is that head that I see on the wall?’ Said John D.’s grandson Nelson. ‘Is it anyone’s head whom we know, at all? ‘A Rensselaer, or a Saltonstall? ‘Is it Franklin D.? Is it Mordaunt Hall? Or is it the head of a Russian? ‘I paint what I think,’ said Rivera. ‘It’s not good […]
Art Quotes
Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned.
Feeling and love for nature sooner or later find a response from people who are interested in art. It is the painter’s duty to be entirely absorbed by nature and to use all his intelligence to express sentiment in his work, so that it becomes intelligible to other people. To work for the market is, […]
Strong and convincing art has never arisen from theories.
The course of Nature is the art of God.
If you hear a voice within you saying, “You are not a painter,” then by all means paint – and that voice will be silenced.
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
And my aim in my life is to make pictures and drawings, as many and as well as I can; then, at the end of my life, I hope to pass away, looking back with love and tender regret, and thinking, ‘Oh, the pictures I might have made.’
Art never expresses anything but itself.
