Quotes About Art

You have to have time to be sorry for yourself to be a good Abstract Expressionist.

Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract.

A paint brush is the only tool I use extensively in my works, to push paint on canvas and conduct melodies. And that's exactly what Garden Avenue is, and all of my projects after that.

For me, a paint brush is the only tool I use extensively in my works, to push paint on canvas and conduct melodies. And that's exactly what Garden Avenue is, and all of my projects after that.

The advantage of having an artistic tradition is that the younger artist could see an organic link between the real life of one's country and its art work which is a sublimation of that life.

Art is a passion or it is nothing

Art is ment to travel from your heart to your head and out through your fingers...

In every motions to put colors on my canvas, I feel like I am screaming, "I AM HERE"... To whom?.. To where?... Where am I going to...?

When a mad man found some certain way to express his insanity in original way, he would get promoted to be called an Artist.... Wait, are you talking about me?

Like creating a masterpiece, quitting is an art: you have to decide what to keep within the frame and what to keep out.

Me: "All right, but you said we had to put emotion into our art. I don't know what that means. I don't know what I'm supposed to feel.

My personal philosophy is that you do art to experience emotion that you don't have the luxury of experiencing in real life.

Painting is a great outlet for those inner emotions you cannot get out any other way.

An excellent photograph is the one which has excellently captured an excellent moment!

The body is an art to give pleasure to the soul

I've never thought of writing as the mere arrangement of words on the page but the attempted embodiment of a vision

What a face this girl possessed!—could I not gaze at it every day I would need to recreate it through painting, sculpture, or fatherhood until a second such face is born.

Art is personal, criticism shouldn't be.

...my writing is a wild mustang - more thunderous than a lightning storm -and all my skill which I call art, is devoted to simply staying on...

Destruction is as valid an artistic statement as construction. Both statements echo the model of the society we live in. The only invalid art is utopian

Some stories, some visions, demand celluloid film and what it can deliver.

Talent is an art of gaining admiration!

i want to never settle for anything less than my soul on paper.

Paris and Fashion. Books and Art. What would one be ... without the other?