The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down hill.
Art Quotes
The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor’s hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
Philip found that a discussion on art was raging. Lawson, whom he had met at luncheon, sat opposite to him. He was a thin youth with a freckled face and red hair. He had very bright green eyes. As Philip sat down he fixed them on him and remarked suddenly: “Raphael was only tolerable when […]
Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.
Art is the proper task of life.
Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more human world.
I have only too much of a wife in this art of mine, who has always kept me in tribulation, and my children shall be the works I leave, which, even if they are naught, will live for a while. (on why he hadn’t married and started a family)
Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.
All this being so, it is not strange that the artist is an especially interesting case for the psychologist who uses an analytical method. The artist’s life cannot be otherwise than full of conflicts, for two forces are at war within him – one the one hand, the common longing for happiness, satisfaction and security […]
