Quotes About Subjectivity

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

What I have in mind is that art may be bad, good or indifferent, but, whatever adjective is used, we must call it art, and bad art is still art in the same way that a bad emotion is still an emotion.

I have never seen a beautiful painting of a beautiful woman. But you can take an ugly woman and make a beautiful painting of her. It is the painting itself that should be beautiful.

Art must be unaesthetic in the extreme, useless and impossible to justify.

Art is purposiveness without purpose.

I guess art is in the eye of the beholder.

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

If it sells, it's art.

An art critic is someone who appreciates art, except for any particular piece of art.

The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.

Art is always good. It just depends if you like or not.

It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes.

Art can't be compared with journalism; it can't deal with concrete issues.

What is art? Prostitution.

I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody said that she does not look like it, but that does not make any difference, she will, he said.

Those who call themselves art photographers are pompous, arrogant egoists.

I don't get into 'becauses.' When you come into a studio you see a number of works. My habit is to go to the one I like most. If you start to say, 'because,' you get into art jargon.

Paint what you feel. Paint what you see. Paint what is real to you.

In the world of Art there are no wrong choices.

Nothing so resembles a daub as a masterpiece.

Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.

Art has got nothing to do with taste.

No one blames themselves if they don't understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or "real" art; they simply think it's a bad cartoon.

Art isn't a product. It's an experience