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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.
Sep 10, 2025
An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.
Cooking is an art and patience a virtue. Careful shopping, fresh ingredients and an unhurried approach are nearly all you need. There is one more thing - love. Love for food and love for those you invite to your table. With a combination of these things you can be an artist
Many are willing to suffer for their art. Few are willing to learn to draw.
Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.
Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the religious search for God.
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use.
The object of art is to give life shape.
Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art.
Art is literacy of the heart
Art is like singing. Some do it better than others, but everyone can and should be doing it for their soul.
Art is the child of Nature.
Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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.
A work of art is a confession.
Art is made by the alone for the alone.
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
All art is autobiographical.
All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.
Art is significant deformity.
The art is long, life is short
Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.
Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.
The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.
We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.
The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.
The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.
The object of Art is to give life a shape.
All art is quite useless.
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.
Art is the proper task of life.
Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.............. Great art remains stable and unobscure because the feelings that it awakens are independent of time and place, because its kingdom is not of this world. To those who have and hold a sense of the significance of form what does it matter whether the forms that move them were created in Paris the day before yesterday or in Babylon fifty centuries ago? The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.