The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.
Art Quotes
The highest condition of art is artlessness.
Art cannot be modern, art is timeless.
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
I will survive for art and for the people I love!
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
If only it be admitted that art may be unintelligible to any one of sound mind and yet be art, there is no reason why any circle of perverted people should not compose works tickling their own perverted feelings and comprehensible to no one but themselves, and call it ‘art’.
I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art. Are there no artists who have done erotic pictures?
All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does not in any way change the above thesis.
