Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
Art Quotes
The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
If my husband would ever meet a woman on the street who looked like the women in his paintings, he would fall over in a dead faint. (Wife of Pablo Picasso)
When you took time to really notice my flowers you hung all your own associations with flowers on my flower…as if I think and see what you think and see of the flower – and I don’t.
I am glad to say I have never considered painting simply as pleasure-giving art, a distraction; I have wanted, by drawing and by color since these are my weapons, to penetrate always further forward into the consciousness of the world and of men.
Good work rarely sells. I believe this of any art.
Rene was frightfully poor, indeed; but then, being an artist and a poet, and the lover of a fair and noble woman, and a dreamer of dreams, and a man God-gifted, he was no longer wretched. For the life of a painter is beautiful when he is still young, and loves truly, and has a […]
Those trying to explain pictures are as a rule, completely mistaken.
