Quotes About Art

The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.

Every piece of art is a mirror and serves the function of reflectivity to expose to you and reveal to you more of who you are.

Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but production.

People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.

All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.

Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

I'm not an exhibitionist. But, honestly, for my art I'll do anything almost. I'll go there.

Sometimes my art is just an illusion - or is it?

As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language.

I have looked for the center of the art scene. I went to Paris as a student. I lived in Venice, California.

All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superfluous things. I expend mine on one thing and one thing only: my art.

Color and I are one. I am a painter.

I call the art of theatre a "dirty art", since there are so many people involved who have needs and whims to be satisfied.

Immodest and attractive is easy. Modest and repulsive is easy too. But modest and attractive is an art form.

My idealism is clearly one reason I'm an artist. I see art as one of mankind's more sublime acts, as a vital counterbalance to our base impulses .

I don't see many artists who are not trying to bring their work to the public - -to the contrary I see artists nearly desperate to get attention for their art and, failing that, often for themselves.

When the study of the arts leads to the adoration of the formula (heaven forbid), we shall be lost.

I believe that working independently will give artists the ability to communicate the full extent of their art and not just a piece of it that might sell.

When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.

Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.

Art is not special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself if it is good.