When drawing a face, any face, it is as if curtain after curtain, mask after mask, falls away, until a final mask remains, one that can no longer be removed, reduced. By the time the drawing is finished, I know a great deal about that face, for no face can hide itself for long. But […]
Art Quotes
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature’s part.
Art imitates Nature, and necessity is the mother of invention.
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
There have been a lot of unfortunate cases of writers, painters, who have been melancholic, depressed, taken their own lives. I don’t think it goes with the territory. I think those people would have been depressed, or alcoholic, suicidal, whatever, even if they weren’t writing. I just think it’s their characterological makeup. Whether that characterological […]
In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
mr youse needn’t be so spry concernin questions arty each has his tastes but as for i i likes a certain party gimme the he-man’s solid bliss for youse ideas i’ll match youse a pretty girl who naked is is worth a million statues
There are, of course, real artists, doing real work, all over the Western world, struggling through all kinds of difficulties and obscurity to keep the magnificent tradition alive, and push it forward an inch or two. What a pity that the little attention they can get for their work in a frivolous, easily distracted age […]
