I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
Art Quotes
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.
There is no more somber enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art.
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
O painter, take care lest the greed for gain prove stronger incentive than renown in art, for to gain this renown is a far greater thing than the renown of riches.
