A man paints with his brains and not with his hands

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.

There is in every artist's studio a scrap heap of discarded works in which the artist's discipline prevailed against his imagination

Art is art, even when unsuccessful.

Picasso would give up cubism just to capture your curves.

His soul palpitating with love of art...

Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like � then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.

Art is when you hear a knocking from your soul and you answer.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

What you often see in a lesser work of art is a subject captured perfectly and never set free

The question of common sense is always what is it good for? a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.

My inspiration is art... because without art, we would just be stuck with reality.

If one looks closely enough, one can see angels in every piece of art.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else.

While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.

I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum

A painting is what you make of it, besides which, 'Moon, Weeping' has a better ring to it than 'Paintbrush, Dripping.

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation

A man and his art are like a fool and his king.

A great artist is always before his time or behind it

Art is a kind of illness

For the mystic what is how. For the craftsman how is what. For the artist what and how are one.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

Art is the struggle to understand.

The artist does not see things as they are, but as he is.

An artist cannot talk about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

An art critic is someone who appreciates art, except for any particular piece of art.

A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.

Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Behind unfinished art cries an unfinished artist.

An artist never really finishes his work; he merely abandons it.

The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.

Artistry is an innate distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the five senses.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

An artist must be careful not to throw his ideas out with the trash.

As my artist's statement explains, my work is utterly incomprehensible and is therefore full of deep significance

The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke

A picture is a poem without words

We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

You don't take a photograph, you make it

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Creativity takes courage

Every artist was first an amateur

When painting, an artist must take care not to trap his soul in the canvas.

Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum.

The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

An artist's career always begins tomorrow.

The best way to learn about art is to attach yourself to an artist. You've got to be in his studio, in his guts, in his hair, bothering him all the time.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

What was any art but a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.

Anyone who's making their living from their creativity, you're so emotionally attached to the process that it really does just eat you up completely.

Picasso is not our greatest painter, but he is our greatest artist. He's the great satyr art figure. His whole life is a work of art.

Reflexes and instincts are not pretty. It is their decoration that initiates art.

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

The artist's talent sits uneasy as an object of public acclaim, having been so long an object of private despair