“To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.”
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“An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.”
“An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.”
Source: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again
“The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.”
Source: Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition
“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
Source: Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life
“The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.”
“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”
Source: The Complete Rougon-Macquart Cycle (All 20 Unabridged Novels in one volume)
“To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.”
Source: Warhol Memoir
Source: The Song of the Lark
“If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.”
“The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.”
Source: Alberto Giacometti
“There is no must in art because art is free.”
Source: Concerning the spiritual in art
“I don't say everything, but I paint everything.”
Source: Picasso érotique
“You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.”
“For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.”
“I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".”
Source: Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.”
“Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.”
“A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.”
“Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.”
“Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.”
“Don't think about making art.”
Source: Warhol Memoir
“He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist”
“Every artist was first an amateur.”
Source: Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims