I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.
The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.
I will preach with my brush.
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts – such is the duty of the artist.
A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.
Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
I’m afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.
Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.
Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.
The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
