Art Quotes

“I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.”

“One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.”

“A love of nature is a consolation against failure.”

“I don't think there has ever been a man who treated a woman as an equal, and that's all I would have asked, for I know I'm worth as much as they.”

“We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.”

“Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you're willing to practise, you can do.”

“You need the dark in order to show the light.”

“If you do too much it's going to lose its effectiveness.”

“The painting tells you what it needs long before you do.”

“Colour is the engine of the painting.”

“Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.”

“It is the brushstrokes of the right value and colour which should produce the drawing.”

“Painting small and often is the surest way I know to improve.”

“I think of painting as a place where everything can come together.”

“I want there to be a human presence without having to depict it in full.”

“Colour is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.”

“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.”

“I paint like a bird sings.”

“It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way.”

“My only merit lies in having painted directly in front of nature, seeking to render my impressions before the most fleeting effects.”

“The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.”

“Art's about life and it can't really be about anything else.”

“I just want to find out where the boundaries are.”

“The idea of being a painter is better than being an artist or a sculptor.”

“The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.”

“Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer, and clearer still.”

“Teaching people to draw is teaching people to look.”

“I paint what I like, when I like, and where I like.”

“The picture isn't finished until you've taken the hand of the viewer and led them through it.”

“It takes a long time to become young in painting.”