Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man’s fate.
Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.
Artists don’t make objects. Artists make mythologies.
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
An empty canvas is a living wonder… far lovelier than certain pictures.
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don’t need.
Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.
Art is the daughter of freedom.
One’s art goes as far and as deep as one’s love goes.
Every good painter paints what he is.
Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don’t know in your own soul.
Through a painting we can see the whole world.
All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.
A picture is worth a thousand words.
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
Art is the most beautiful of all lies.
Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
