Quotes About Art

My mother would offer a selection of his watercolors to the peddlers at lunch hour ... She did all she could to keep me alive, I just shouldn't have been born.

Me abruma la miseria humana, ya sea física o moral. Siempre existió, está bien; pero en los viejos tiempos se ofrecía a un Dios, cualquiera. Hoy, en el mundo, hay millones de personas indigentes, y su angustia ya no va a ninguna parte. Nuestro tiempo, además, es un tiempo de miseria sin arte, es lamentable. El hombre está desnudo, despojado de todo, incluso de la fe en sí mismo

Camille Claudel, Auguste Rodin's model and thrown-away lover.

Wadsworth Atheneum.

Childe Hassam.

Justice was its own art, shining light into the shadows, complex yet ultimately as simple as can be: bringing balance, making things right. Helping women know that their experience, no matter how horrific, was their strength. It showed them that they were their own superheroes.

The artist used houses and barns and land along the Connecticut River as his subjects." Just as Ben Morrison had used the island and the brook. "Did Nason know your grandmother?" "Yes. She said he was the most poetic artist in America. She meant it literally. Some of his prints illustrated books

Justice was its own art, shining light into the shadows, complex yet ultimately as simple as can be: bringing balance, making things right.

she remembered some of the joy art used to bring her.

Louvre, the Musée d'Orsay, Centre Pompidou, Cluny, Musée Jacquemart-André

exquisitely intimate Marmottan.

exquisitely intimate Marmottan. Mathilda rented a car, and they drove out of town to visit Claude Monet's home and gardens at Giverny and the port town of Honfleur, the site of so many Impressionist paintings. The vacation was centered on art. They visited the Normandy landing beaches and stood on the cliff looking across the English Channel, imagining the boatloads of Allied forces ready to storm the beaches.

Willard Metcalf, Matilda Browne, Benjamin Morrison, William Merritt Chase, Henry Ward Ranger, and William Chadwick

Drala warrior, a protector deity in the Tibetan art Nicola had studied at Yale.

The violin speaks to the mind, and the fiddle speaks to the heart

The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn.

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

It is the only point of getting up every morning: to paint, to make something good, to make something even better than before, not to give up, to compete, to be ambitious.

When I'm painting people in clothes I'm always thinking very much of naked people, or animals dressed.

An artist should appear in his work no more than God in nature. The man is nothing; the work is everything.

Through [my friends] I discovered what it was to love people. There was an art to it...which was not really all that different from the love that is necessary in the making of art. It required the effort of always seeing them for themselves and not as I wished them to be...

I now possessed a large number of varied and decidedly wonderful friends, whom I valued immeasurably. Through them I discovered what it was to love people. There was an art to it, I discovered, which was not really all that different from the love that is necessary in the making of art. It required the effort of always seeing them for themselves and not as I wished them to be, of always striving to see the truth of them.

The real poem is the soul within them and that beautiful bit is the soul of an unwritten poem. It's not everyday one sees a soul, even of a poem.

This book may or may not succeed. I wrote it for love, not money, but very often such books are the most successful, just as everything that is born of true love has life in it, as nothing constructed for mercenary ends can ever have.