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“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”

“For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.”

“Fine art is the subtlest, the most seductive, the most effective instrument of moral propaganda in the world, excepting only the example of personal conduct; and I waive even this exception in favor of the art of the stage, because it works by exhibiting examples of personal conduct made intelligible and moving to crowds of unobservant unreflecting people to whom real life means nothing.”

“Fine art is the only teacher except torture.”

“The division between the useful arts and the fine arts must not be understood in too absolute a manner. In the humblest work of the craftsmen, if art is there, there is a concern for beauty, through a kind of indirect repercussion that the requirements of the creativity of the spirit exercise upon the production of an object to serve human needs.”

“I feel like what's most important for painting - which has been hierarchically on the top for a really long time in terms of what is considered fine art, by comparison with something like a comic book or what's considered low art - is that painting should open up laterally to include other cultures and things that don't immediately resonate as a painting but are obviously of equal contribution to the genre.”

“Art is for the elite because it has a very high price-point of entry. And when one is in that social strata, they look down at illustrators because they just draw things directly for a few hundred dollars and that's seen as being a bit grubby. Galleries allow artists to stay relatively divorced from the financial aspects of their trade. I am lucky because I do fine art, and that is half of my living. And then illustration provides the other half.”

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”

“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.”

“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”

“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.”

“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.”

“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”

“Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.”