To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.
In art the best is good enough.
The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.
You can’t do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.
Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.
Personality is everything in art and poetry.
Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.
I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
If you know somethin’ well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin’ chickens.
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
Art depends on luck and talent.
When artists make art, they shouldn’t question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.
The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.
Rules and models destroy genius and art.
Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
