Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.
Art Quotes
Only God Almighty makes painters.
The whole of art is an appeal to a reality which is not without us but in our minds.
Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its own ends through him. As a human being, he may have moods and a will […]
I don’t paint to live, I live to paint.
Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.
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 […]
The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation.
The voice of the artist draws its strength from his being born to a loneliness that calls out to the Universe to give it a human voice, and in the great art of the past there survives for us the invincible inner voice of vanished civilizations… Each masterpiece purifies the world, and their common lesson […]
How can we doubt that it is his art that explains the artist, and not the insufficiencies and conflicts of his personal life? These are nothing but the regrettable results of the fact that he is an artist – that is to say, a man who from his very birth has been called to a […]
