As
far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of
giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one
language. ~Pablo Picasso
The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? ~Pablo Picasso
Sometimes, to pursue a new idea, the artist must forfeit his deposit on an old idea. ~Robert Brault,
I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture. ~Henri Matisse, Notes d'un peintre, 1908
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness. ~George Jean Nathan, House of Satan
Art is the colors and textures of your imagination. ~Meghan, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999
Art is your personal diary where you may color your thoughts and emotions on a page. ~Sara, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999
Art is a shadow of what a person is thinking... a small glimpse of what they hold inside. Little secrets, regrets, joys... every line has its own meaning. ~Sarah, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999
Art is your emotions flowing in a river of imagination. ~Devin, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999
Art is an adventure that never seems to end. ~Jason, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999
Art is pictures straight from the heart. ~Ben, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999
If Michelangelo had been straight, the Sistine Chapel would have been wallpapered. ~Robin Tyler
Art is the triumph over chaos. ~John Cheever
All great art comes from a sense of outrage. ~Glenn Close
Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life. ~Jean Paul Richter
Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. ~Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Orthodoxy
Colors are the deeds and sufferings of light. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One of the best things about paintings is their silence — which prompts reflection and random reverie. ~Mark Stevens
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things. ~Pablo Picasso
Art doesn't have to matter to a lot of people to matter a lot. ~Jeb Dickerson,
Art hath an enemy called ignorance. ~Ben Jonson
What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art. ~Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon. ~Agnes Repplier, Points of View, 1891
Art disturbs, science reassures. ~Georges Braque, Le Jour et la nuit
As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life. ~John Lubbock
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. ~Loren Eiseley, The Night Country, 1971
Art is spirituality in drag. ~Jennifer Yane
The artist's talent sits uneasy as an object of public acclaim, having been so long an object of private despair. ~Robert Brault,
Coloring outside the lines is a fine art. ~Kim Nance
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. ~W. Somerset Maugham
Reflexes and instincts are not pretty. It is their decoration that initiates art. ~Martin H. Fischer
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. ~Willa Cather
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. ~George Santayana
Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization. ~Lincoln Steffens
Art is not a thing; it is a way. ~Elbert Hubbard
An artist's career always begins tomorrow. ~James McNeill Whistler
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. ~Pablo Picasso
Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum. ~Edmond & Jules de Goncourt
When painting, an artist must take care not to trap his soul in the canvas. ~Terri Guillemets
An artist must be careful not to throw his ideas out with the trash. ~Terri Guillemets
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. ~G.K. Chesterton
Artistry is an innate distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the five senses. ~Robert Brault,
The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world. ~André Malraux
An artist never really finishes his work; he merely abandons it. ~Paul Valéry
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. ~Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark, 1915
A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection. ~Oscar Wilde
An art critic is someone who appreciates art, except for any particular piece of art. ~Robert Brault,
An artist cannot talk about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture. ~Jean Cocteau, Newsweek, 16 May 1955
The artist does not see things as they are, but as he is. ~Alfred Tonnelle
Art is the struggle to understand. ~Terri Guillemets
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. ~Albert Camus
For the mystic what is how. For the craftsman how is what. For the artist what and how are one. ~William McElcheran
O, how much simpler things would be
If eyes could paint or brush could see.
~Robert Brault,
Art is a kind of illness. ~Giacomo Puccini
A great artist is always before his time or behind it. ~George Moore
A man and his art are like a fool and his king. ~Terri Guillemets
Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation. ~Henri Cartier-Bresson
A painting is what you make of it, besides which, 'Moon, Weeping' has a better ring to it than 'Paintbrush, Dripping.' ~Robert Brault,
I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum. ~Claes Oldenburg
Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing. To morals belong the lower and less intellectual spheres. ~Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, 1891
While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt. ~Odilon Redon
The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. ~Pablo Picasso
If one looks closely enough, one can see angels in every piece of art. ~Terri Guillemets
My inspiration is art... because without art, we would just be stuck with reality. ~Daniel R. Lynch
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. ~James Russell Lowell
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. ~Aristotle
Art is when you hear a knocking from your soul — and you answer. ~Terri Guillemets
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. ~Jean Cocteau
Picasso would give up cubism just to capture your curves. ~Konfal Blyther
Any great work of art... revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world — the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air. ~Leonard Bernstein, What Makes Opera Grand?
There is in every artist's studio a scrap heap of discarded works in which the artist's discipline prevailed against his imagination. ~Robert Brault,
Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild. ~Dante Alighieri, Inferno
A portrait has one advantage over its original: it is unconscious; and you may therefore admire without insulting it. I have seen portraits which have more. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die. ~Thomas Carlyle, Latter Day Pamphlets, no. 8
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. ~George Bernard Shaw
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. ~Michelangelo
Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid. ~Jules Feiffer
All the other colors are just colors, but purple seems to have a soul. Purple is not just a noun and an adjective but also a verb — when you look at it, it's looking back at you. ~Uniek Swain
Architecture begins where engineering ends. ~Walter Gropius
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. ~G.K. Chesterton
Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier. ~Marie Laurencin
Art is Man's nature. Nature is god's art. ~James Bailey
The artist gazes upon a reality and creates his own impression. The viewer gazes upon the impression and creates his own reality. ~Robert Brault,
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together. ~John Ruskin
The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? ~Pablo Picasso
Sometimes, to pursue a new idea, the artist must forfeit his deposit on an old idea. ~Robert Brault,
I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture. ~Henri Matisse, Notes d'un peintre, 1908
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness. ~George Jean Nathan, House of Satan
Art is the colors and textures of your imagination. ~Meghan, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999
Art is your personal diary where you may color your thoughts and emotions on a page. ~Sara, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999
Art is a shadow of what a person is thinking... a small glimpse of what they hold inside. Little secrets, regrets, joys... every line has its own meaning. ~Sarah, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999
Art is your emotions flowing in a river of imagination. ~Devin, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999
Art is an adventure that never seems to end. ~Jason, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999
Art is pictures straight from the heart. ~Ben, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999
If Michelangelo had been straight, the Sistine Chapel would have been wallpapered. ~Robin Tyler
Art is the triumph over chaos. ~John Cheever
All great art comes from a sense of outrage. ~Glenn Close
Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life. ~Jean Paul Richter
Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. ~Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Orthodoxy
Colors are the deeds and sufferings of light. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One of the best things about paintings is their silence — which prompts reflection and random reverie. ~Mark Stevens
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things. ~Pablo Picasso
Art doesn't have to matter to a lot of people to matter a lot. ~Jeb Dickerson,
Art hath an enemy called ignorance. ~Ben Jonson
What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art. ~Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon. ~Agnes Repplier, Points of View, 1891
Art disturbs, science reassures. ~Georges Braque, Le Jour et la nuit
As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life. ~John Lubbock
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. ~Loren Eiseley, The Night Country, 1971
Art is spirituality in drag. ~Jennifer Yane
The artist's talent sits uneasy as an object of public acclaim, having been so long an object of private despair. ~Robert Brault,
Coloring outside the lines is a fine art. ~Kim Nance
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. ~W. Somerset Maugham
Reflexes and instincts are not pretty. It is their decoration that initiates art. ~Martin H. Fischer
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. ~Willa Cather
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. ~George Santayana
Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization. ~Lincoln Steffens
Art is not a thing; it is a way. ~Elbert Hubbard
An artist's career always begins tomorrow. ~James McNeill Whistler
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. ~Pablo Picasso
Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum. ~Edmond & Jules de Goncourt
When painting, an artist must take care not to trap his soul in the canvas. ~Terri Guillemets
An artist must be careful not to throw his ideas out with the trash. ~Terri Guillemets
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. ~G.K. Chesterton
Artistry is an innate distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the five senses. ~Robert Brault,
The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world. ~André Malraux
An artist never really finishes his work; he merely abandons it. ~Paul Valéry
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. ~Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark, 1915
A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection. ~Oscar Wilde
An art critic is someone who appreciates art, except for any particular piece of art. ~Robert Brault,
An artist cannot talk about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture. ~Jean Cocteau, Newsweek, 16 May 1955
The artist does not see things as they are, but as he is. ~Alfred Tonnelle
Art is the struggle to understand. ~Terri Guillemets
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. ~Albert Camus
For the mystic what is how. For the craftsman how is what. For the artist what and how are one. ~William McElcheran
O, how much simpler things would be
If eyes could paint or brush could see.
~Robert Brault,
Art is a kind of illness. ~Giacomo Puccini
A great artist is always before his time or behind it. ~George Moore
A man and his art are like a fool and his king. ~Terri Guillemets
Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation. ~Henri Cartier-Bresson
A painting is what you make of it, besides which, 'Moon, Weeping' has a better ring to it than 'Paintbrush, Dripping.' ~Robert Brault,
I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum. ~Claes Oldenburg
Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing. To morals belong the lower and less intellectual spheres. ~Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, 1891
While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt. ~Odilon Redon
The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. ~Pablo Picasso
If one looks closely enough, one can see angels in every piece of art. ~Terri Guillemets
My inspiration is art... because without art, we would just be stuck with reality. ~Daniel R. Lynch
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. ~James Russell Lowell
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. ~Aristotle
Art is when you hear a knocking from your soul — and you answer. ~Terri Guillemets
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. ~Jean Cocteau
Picasso would give up cubism just to capture your curves. ~Konfal Blyther
Any great work of art... revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world — the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air. ~Leonard Bernstein, What Makes Opera Grand?
There is in every artist's studio a scrap heap of discarded works in which the artist's discipline prevailed against his imagination. ~Robert Brault,
Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild. ~Dante Alighieri, Inferno
A portrait has one advantage over its original: it is unconscious; and you may therefore admire without insulting it. I have seen portraits which have more. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die. ~Thomas Carlyle, Latter Day Pamphlets, no. 8
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. ~George Bernard Shaw
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. ~Michelangelo
Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid. ~Jules Feiffer
All the other colors are just colors, but purple seems to have a soul. Purple is not just a noun and an adjective but also a verb — when you look at it, it's looking back at you. ~Uniek Swain
Architecture begins where engineering ends. ~Walter Gropius
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. ~G.K. Chesterton
Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier. ~Marie Laurencin
Art is Man's nature. Nature is god's art. ~James Bailey
The artist gazes upon a reality and creates his own impression. The viewer gazes upon the impression and creates his own reality. ~Robert Brault,
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together. ~John Ruskin
