Art is pattern informed by sensibility.
The history of art is the history of revivals.
Great artists suffer for the people.
That’s why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.
An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.
The best artists know what to leave out.
There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.
The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
Art must take reality by surprise.
I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can’t be done in one picture.
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.
Painting is by nature a luminous language.
