Quotes About Art

the way to create art is to burn and destroyordinary concepts and to substitute themwith new truths that run down from the top of the headand out of the heart

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way... things I had no words for.

The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

I hope to depart in no other way than looking back with love and wistfulness and thinking, oh paintings that I would have made..

In the fullness of artistic life there is, and remains, and will always come back at times, that homesick longing for the truly ideal life that can never come true.

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself.She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.

There are only two styles of portrait painting: the serious and the smirk.

I must have flowers, always and always.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine

Art as the single superior counter-force against all will to negation of life, art as the anti-Christian, anti-Buddhist, anti-Nihilist par excellence.

You need feeling, emotion, to create. You can't create out of indifference.

Art is inextricably tied to man's survival - not to his physical survival, but to that on which his physical survival depends: to the preservation and survival of his consciousness.

What keeps my heart awake is colorful silence.

..it has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don't know the artistic side of a painting.

Artists strive for perfection. But what they often fail to see is that the beauty, the humanity, lies within the flaws.

It [ballet] projects a fragile kind of strength and a certain inflexible precision.

Edsel is the artist in our family. Art is something I know nothing about.

One of the most difficult things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.

Painting is a faith and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

Two boys arrived yesterday with a pebble they said was the head of a dog until I pointed out that it was really a typewriter.

We should comport ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages - stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us.

It's clever but is it art?

I like to learn. That's an art and a science.

Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.