Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
Art Quotes
The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.
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.
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.
