Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
What is art but a way of seeing?
I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.
A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you’re an artist.
What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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.
The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.
I don’t believe in art. I believe in artists.
One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.
Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love.
Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
The artist’s job is to be a witness to his time in history.
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.
The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.
Art has to move you and design does not, unless it’s a good design for a bus.
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there’s no such thing as perfect.
