Art Quotes

"The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?"

"Sculpture is the best comment that one human being can make about another."

"I wanted to paint the way I thought, not the way I saw."

"Art is not meant to decorate walls. It is war against brutality and darkness."

"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."

"I could paint a perfect imitation of nature and that would bore me to tears."

"The essential in art is not the ideas but the interpretation of ideas."

"It is my misfortune to live in an era when the technical and creative aspects of art have become separated."

"The purpose of my life is to console people through my art."

"Color is a power which directly influences the soul."

"The work of art is not what you see, but what you feel."

"To create is to participate in the divine act of bringing new worlds into being."

"The artist must work not for glory, but for the love of the work itself."

"Art is the language of the soul when words fail."

"Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision."

"Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad."

"I paint my own reality. The only truth is my own vision."

"Photography is in the process of verifying aesthetics."

"The act of painting an object in front of nature is much slower and much more difficult than painting it from memory."

"To understand a painting, you should think of it as you would of a woman."

"Flesh is the only art."

"Concrete irrationality is the only possible expression of truth."

"A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others."

"Art is what you can get away with."

"When you think about it, department stores are kind of like museums."

"The most beautiful thing in Tokyo is McDonald's."

"An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have."

"Art should be fun."

"I want to see a lot more art."

"The public likes it and understands it. This is a picture of a soup can, but it's a painting."