Quotes About Art

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding.

Good artists copy; great artists steal.

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He copies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He's convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

Painting it's a blind man profession. Painter is painting not what he sees but what he feels.

In art intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be proved by deeds and not by reasons. What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing.

The fact that for a long time Cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people who cannot see anything in it means nothing. I do not read English, an English book is a blank book to me. This does not mean that the English language does not exist. Why should I blame anyone but myself if I cannot understand what I know nothing about? -Pablo Picasso.

Todo lo que puedas imaginar es real.

When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid.

Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art.

Art is a lie that reveals the truth.

You have to know how to be vulgar. Paint with four-letter words.

It would be very interesting to preserve photographically not the stages, but the metamorphoses of a picture. Possibly one might then discover the path followed by the brain in materializing a dream.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life

Cansei de ser moderno. quero ser eterno.

I am a woman. Every artist is a woman and should have a taste for other women. Artists who are homosexual cannot be true artists because they like men, and since they themselves are women they are reverting to normality.

Imagination is real.

A picture is not thought out and settled beforehand. While it is being done it changes as one's thoughts change. And when it is finished, it still goes on changing, according to the state of mind of whoever is looking at it. A picture lives a life like a living creature, undergoing the changes imposed on us by our life from day to day. This is natural enough, as the picture lives only through the man who is looking at it.

Academic training in beauty is a sham. When we love a woman, we don't start measuring her legs.

There's nothing more difficult than a line.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

I do not evolve, I AM.