Quotes About Art

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

The function of art is to struggle against obligation.

Art is a ripening, an evolution, an uplifting which enables us to emerge from darkness into a blaze of light.

Wrestling is an art form. I don't worry about those who don't get it; I worry about satisfying those who do.

The act of painting is about one heart telling another heart where he found salvation.

If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces.

When one is painting one does not think.

Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and all individuality.

Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Everything starts from a dot.

Where there is no heart there is no art.

One eye sees, the other feels.

The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.

Just as one can compose colors, or forms, so one can compose motions.

Art is coming face to face with yourself.

Art is a guarantee of sanity. That is the most important thing I have said.

Art can no longer be merely a mirror, it must act as the organizer of the people's consciousness... No form of representation is so readily comprehensible to the masses as photography.

It is through art that we will prevail and we will endure. It lives on after us and defines us as people.

I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned.

Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.

The observer must learn to look at the picture as a graphic representation of a mood and not as a representation of objects.

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.