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Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.
Sep 10, 2025
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can't attain it in anything.
I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.
Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.
Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.
It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.
Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.
Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
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