Art Quotes

"The public who look at any picture are co-creators of the finished work."

"Technique is important, but only technique won't do it."

"I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things."

"Bad artists imitate, good artists steal, great artists transform what they borrow."

"We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that helps us to realize truth."

"Everyone who wants to understand painting must learn the language of it."

"I've created a vocabulary that goes beyond the visual - color creates a mood."

"I found I could express things in paint which I had no words for."

"I saved all my love for art. It was my only true love."

"Matisse makes a drawing and puts in a few characters, the night, stars, a bird, and there you have a world. But how?"

"Art and culture are the true markers of civilization, not military might."

"Art is the expression of truth that words alone cannot capture."

"Art expresses what cannot be said in words."

"Art is the expression of the soul."

"Art is the mirror of the soul."

"I dream my painting and I paint my dream."

"Real artists strip bare their souls."

"I used to think I could save people with art. Now I realize that art saves my soul."

"I would sacrifice my technical ability for the depth of a feeling I want to express."

"I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing."

"Sadness will last forever. Unless I paint it."

"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 best of artists has that thought alone which is born with us."

"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."

"The sculptor must strive continually to imitate nature."

"The male form is closer to the divine than any other."

"The statues and paintings are immortal, they do not fear death as man does."

"The true work of art is invisible."

"The artist is the lover of nature; therefore he is her slave and her master."