Art Quotes

"Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world."

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."

"To understand the nature of things is necessary for the creation of art."

"The painter has the universe in his mind and hands."

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

"To make a perfect beauty one needs something seemingly bad."

"A picture holds a thousand words, but it takes a moment to see 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."

"Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions."

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

"One does not simply paint what one sees or feels. One paints what one wants others to see."

"When you make a thing, it is so complicated making it that it is bound to be ugly, but those that do it after you can make it pretty."

"Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that we are given to understand."

"I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them."

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

"There is no abstract art. You must always start with something."

"Art cannot be made alone or for oneself."

"In art, intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be present."

"Good artists copy, great artists steal."

"A painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen."

"Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird?"

"In the new art people look for reasons to understand it."

"Painting is an island surrounded by doubt."

"It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child."

"In Africa, sculpture is functional. Here it is turned into art."

"What is important in a work of art is not its appearance but the idea it conveys."

"The difference between me and the surrealists is that I am a surrealist."

"It's not enough to know what Picasso paints; we must know why."

"Art is meant to disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed."