Quotes About Art

I paint my own reality.

There is no art which has not had its beginnings in things full of errors. Nothing is at the same time both new and perfect.

Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Art does not solve problems but makes us aware of their existence. It opens our eyes to see and our brain to imagine.

I didn't know how a working-class girl like me could possibly make a living in the art world

A sculptor is a person obsessed with the form and the shape of things, and it's not just Ihe shape of any one thing, but the shape of any thing and everything.

The art world has become so insular. The rules have become so autodidactic that, in a sense, they lose track of what people have any interest in thinking about, talking about or even looking at.

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

I have learned that what I have not drawn I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle.

Creativity is often blocked by trying to be perfect. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

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.

The real function of art is to change mental patterns ... making new thought possible.

Chess, like other arts, must be practiced to be appreciated.

The joy of dressing is an art.

You are either born to be a photographer or not. The art of photography is not something you can learn in the classroom or by watching someone do it.

Fighting is an expression. It's a form of speech, and that's why they call it martial arts. It's an art.

Art is a wound turned into light.

Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.

I already have a wife who is too much for me.. she is my art, and my works are my children.

Making art is complicated because the categories are always changing. You just have to make your own art, and whatever categories it falls into will come later.

Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.