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In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
Sep 17, 2025
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.
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.
To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.
To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.
The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
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.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Great art picks up where nature ends.
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine.
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.
The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.
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.
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.
When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
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.
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