I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don’t need.
Art Quotes
The artist needs but a roof, a crust of bread, and his easel, and all the rest God gives him in abundance. He must live to paint and not paint to live.
Great artists need great clients.
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
A Picasso original costs several thousand dollars and that’s a luxury I cannot afford.
I used to draw like Raphael, but it has taken me a whole lifetime to learn to draw like a child.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar.
The world today doesn’t make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
