Art Quotes

“All art is erotic.”

“Whoever wants to know something about me ought to look carefully at my pictures.”

“Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.”

“Show me an angel and I'll paint one.”

“Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.”

“The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of perception the artist has acquired.”

“Creativity takes courage.”

“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.”

“I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.”

“What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity.”

“Drawing is putting a line round an idea.”

“Exactitude is not truth.”

“I paint things as they are. I don't comment.”

“The model is a springboard, not a leash.”

“It is only when we are no longer fearful that we begin to create.”

“Light is therefore colour.”

“Indistinctness is my forte.”

“My job is to paint what I see, not what I know.”

“The sun is God.”

“I don't paint so that people will understand me; I paint to show what a particular scene looks like.”

“Every good painter paints what he is.”

“I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them.”

“On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more a part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.”

“Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.”

“Nature is usually wrong.”

“An artist is not paid for his labour but for his vision.”

“To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.”

“It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.”

“The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell.”

“I want to be a painter of modern life, and modern bodies.”