Quotes About Art

Art sometimes is as simple as nothing, and other times as mysterious as nature or a woman.

White does not exist in nature.

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

Art is nature as seen through a temperament.

I never make studies from nature. They would get in the way. I make use of my mind.

Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint.

Go and see what others have produced, but never copy anything except nature. You would be trying to enter into a temperament that is not yours and nothing that you would do would have any character.

I really feel that artists or musicians are controversial people. Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. If people are not doing that, they're not artists - they're artisans.

I like everything that has no style: dictionaries, photographs, nature, myself and my paintings. (Because style is violent, and I am not violent.)

Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it.

Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third is copying the second... You see the sequence.

Beauty lies in nature and reveals, once the artist has perceived it, its own expressive power.

To play the piano is to consort with nature. Every mollusk, galaxy, vapor or viper as well the sweet incense of love's distraction, is within the hands and grasp of the pianist.

Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

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.

The eye is pleased when nature stoops to art.

To paint from nature is to realize one's sensations, not to copy what is before one.

Tarkovsky for me is the greatest [director], the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as a dream.

Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable

We are all born bonded to nature; that's why we put depictions of flowers and forests, rather than bulldozers or log piles, on our walls.

Let me earnestly recommend...one studio which you may freely enter and receive in liberal measure the most sure and safe instruction...the Studio of Nature.

A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it.

The inner nature of man is the province of Music.

I look at nature, I see myself. Paintings are mirrors, so is nature.