Art Quotes

"The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection."

"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."

"The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work."

"The human figure is the best vehicle for expressing the spirited energy I hope to convey."

"The true work of an artist is to express what is beautiful in the soul."

"I paint my own reality."

"The final masterpiece is the work created through the mind, the hand, and the soul."

"A true artist does not create to make money."

"Drawing is the poetry of expression through the hand."

"The goal of the artist is to bring to consciousness what the unconscious knows."

"I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best."

"I paint flowers so they will not die."

"The only thing I know is that I paint and I don't know why."

"Painting gives me great pleasure, almost like being alive."

"I will be my own art."

"The sadness will last forever but I will paint it."

"My art is the rearrangement of the reality which I prefer."

"My art is the fruit of movement and of thought."

"My paintings are my diaries, my sorrows made visible."

"The walls of my world grew narrower, so I painted them."

"My art was not surrealism, it was my reality painted plain."

"The roots of my art extend deeper than the pain of my body."

"Art is the queen of all sciences."

"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art."

"Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt."

"The painter who draws by practice and judgment of the eye without the use of reason is like the mirror that reproduces within itself all the objects which are set opposite to it."

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."

"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way."

"Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen."