Quotes About Art

Many Hollywoodians may have good taste and an interest in culture but they certainly hide it. They're afraid they'll be branded as sissies if someone finds out they write poetry or own a painting. They're so timid about culture.

In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

I never get tired of the blue sky.

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

When I have a terrible need of — shall I say the word — religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

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

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a church warden, but he must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.

Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague.

The sunflower is mine, in a way.

I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.

In spite of everything, I shall rise again; I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion, then I go out and paint the stars.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

I feel such a creative force in me: I am convinced that there will be a time when, let us say, I will make something good every day , on a regular basis....I am doing my very best to make every effort because I am longing so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things mean painstaking work, disappointment, and perseverance.

I think that I still have it in my heart someday to paint a bookshop with the front yellow and pink in the evening...like a light in the midst of the darkness.

Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.

I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.

If you work with love and intelligence, you develop a kind of armour against people's opinions, just because of the sincerity of your love for nature and art. Nature is also severe and, to put it that way, hard, but never deceives and always helps you to move forward.

We are surrounded by poetry on all sides...

We spent our whole lives in unconsous excercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words