Quotes About Art

I keep scraping the canvas And painting him over again But he keeps slipping away

Poetry is a voicing, a calling forth, and the lyric poem exists somewhere in the region—the register—between speech and song.

Writing fixes the evanescence of sound and holds it against death.

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.

The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.

In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds.

If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.

I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.

It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method.

If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

Maybe I am not very human - all I ever wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

If I could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint

Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me.

Every art that could inflame the passions and touch the interests of men has been essayed," Washington complained in early April 1788.

This then is the scribe's direct purpose: the making of useful things legibly beautiful.

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

At that moment Jack reached an insight, one he never forgot: a bee in a story could tickle worse than a real bee. He realized, too, that a story peach could be sweeter than a real peach, a story flower more fragrant than a real flower, a story song more melodious than a real song. What existed in a story could be more real than what existed in the world. And by reaching this insight, Jack understood the true power of his art.

I just love movies.