A painting is never finished – it simply stops in interesting places.
Art Quotes
The true artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.
All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.
Nothing so resembles a daub as a masterpiece.
Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
Art is a habit-forming drug. That’s all it is for the artist, for the collector, for anybody connected with it. Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth. People speak of it with great, religious reverence, but I don’t see why it is to be so much revered. I’m afraid I’m an agnostic when […]
Too nicely, Jonson knew the critic’s part; nature in him was almost lost in Art.
I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.
A photograph is a portrait painted by the sun.
