A random collection of quotes by artists, about art, life, and observations on the craft.
- “A sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful attempt to put on to canvas what is in front of him, but one who tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing.”
- “With the most primitive means the artist creates something which the most ingenious and efficient technology will never be able to create.”
- “I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say 'he feels deeply, he feels tenderly.'”
- “A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.”
- “I'm painting an idea not an ideal. Basically I'm trying to paint a structured painting full of controlled, and therefore potent, emotion.”
- “There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it.”
- “What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is in harmony parallel with nature.”
- “Practise what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know.”
- “Don't be an art critic, but paint, there lies salvation.”
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