Just dash something down if you see a blank canvas staring at you with a certain imbecility. You do not know how paralyzing it is, that staring of a blank canvas which says to the painter: “You do not know anything.”
Art Quotes
An artist’s sphere of influence is the world.
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter, and then the painting.
I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
All good art is an indiscretion.
I cannot help it that my pictures do not sell. Nevertheless the time will come when people will see that they are worth more than the price of the paint.
Art happens no hovel is safe from it, no Prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about, and puny efforts to make it universal end in quaint comedy, and coarse farce.
In art I pull no highbrow stuff; I know what I like, and that’s enough.
Now I as a painter shall never amount to anything important, I am absolutely sure of it. Suppose all were changed, character, education, circumstances, then this or that might have been.
