Quotes About Art

Degrade first the arts if you'd mankind degrade, Hire idiots to paint with cold light and hot shade.

The Foundation of Empire is Art & Science Remove them or Degrade them & the Empire is No More.

ART IS THE MOST EFFECTIVE MODE OF COMMUNICATION THAT EXISTS. — JOHN DEWEY, ART AS EXPERIENCE

Picasso said that art is a lie, but a lie that tells the truth.

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.

Folk music is a bunch of fat people.

It's not easy to define poetry.

Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do.

Over the years, I have been subjected to many indignities, all for the sake of Art. If I ever catch him, I'm going to kill the guy.

I don't wanta do any Blues or any sad songs.

Besides, we don't make mistakes here, we just have happy accidents.

Lets add some Indian Red

We don't make mistakes here, we just have happy accidents. - from the Joy of Painting

We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.

I can't think of anything more rewarding than being able to express yourself to others through painting. Exercising the imagination, experimenting with talents, being creative; these things, to me, are truly the windows to your soul.

All you need to paint is a few tools, a little instruction, and a vision in your mind.

wash the brush, just beats the devil out of it

This is your world You're the creator Find freedom on this canvas Believe, that you can do it, 'Cuz you can do it. You can do it.

Mix up a little more shadow color here, then we can put us a little shadow right in there. See how you can move things around? You have unlimited power on this canvas -- can literally, literally move mountains

Lets build a happy little cloud. Lets build some happy little trees.

What can be painted can be punished.

Anything we don't like, we'll turn it into a happy little tree or something; we don't make mistakes, we just have happy accidents.

Put light against light - you have nothing. Put dark against dark - you have nothing. It's the contrast of light and dark that each gives the other one meaning.

We put some dark in, only so our light will show. You have to have dark in order to show light.