Art Quotes

“I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.”

“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”

“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”

“If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.”

“I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.”

“I often think that the night is more alive and more richly coloured than the day.”

“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.”

“The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.”

“Colour expresses something in itself. One can't do without it; one must make use of it.”

“There is no blue without yellow and without orange.”

“Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.”

“The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.”

“Everything starts from a dot.”

“There is no must in art because art is free.”

“Each period of a civilization creates an art that is specific in it and which we will never see reborn.”

“I paint this way because I can keep putting more things in it — drama, anger, pain, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas about space.”

“Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.”

“The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope to do is to produce some order within ourselves.”

“Flesh was the reason oil paint was invented.”

“The sun will not rise, or set, without my notice, and thanks.”

“I prefer every time a picture composed and painted out of doors.”

“One must be of one's time and paint what one sees.”

“There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again.”