The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don’t dare reveal.
Trying to force creativity is never good.
In an artwork you’re always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.
The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed – it is a process of elimination.
Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.
Are you really sure that a floor can’t also be a ceiling?
Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers… What we call art is a game.
I am not strong on perfection.
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.
Art is science made clear.
Art is man’s expression of his joy in labor.
The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
A painting that is well composed is half finished.
A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.
The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.
