Art Quotes

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

All good art is an indiscretion.

I cannot help it that my pictures do not sell. Nevertheless the time will come when people will see that they are worth more than the price of the paint.

Art happens no hovel is safe from it, no Prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about, and puny efforts to make it universal end in quaint comedy, and coarse farce.

In art I pull no highbrow stuff; I know what I like, and that’s enough.

Now I as a painter shall never amount to anything important, I am absolutely sure of it. Suppose all were changed, character, education, circumstances, then this or that might have been.

‘Whose is that head that I see on the wall?’ Said John D.’s grandson Nelson. ‘Is it anyone’s head whom we know, at all? ‘A Rensselaer, or a Saltonstall? ‘Is it Franklin D.? Is it Mordaunt Hall? Or is it the head of a Russian? ‘I paint what I think,’ said Rivera. ‘It’s not good […]

Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned.

Feeling and love for nature sooner or later find a response from people who are interested in art. It is the painter’s duty to be entirely absorbed by nature and to use all his intelligence to express sentiment in his work, so that it becomes intelligible to other people. To work for the market is, […]

Strong and convincing art has never arisen from theories.