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Lady Gaga is the present and the future. She is the most revolutionary and inspirational artist. She is fearless and daring.
Sep 10, 2025
Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.
I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.
My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.
Novelty is seldom the essential... make a subject better from its intrinsic nature.
All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.
Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.
The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
In our time there are many artists who do something because it is new; they see their value and their justification in this newness. They are deceiving themselves; novelty is seldom the essential. This has to do with one thing only; making a subject better from its intrinsic nature.
I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.
Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
Don't think about making art.
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.