“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.”
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Fine Arts Quotes
“Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.”
Source: Picasso: style and meaning
“Every good painter paints what he is.”
Source: Jackson Pollock, drawing into painting
Source: Jackson Pollock. Englische Ausgabe.
“The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.”
“Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.”
“Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.”
Source: Stella Adler on America's Master Playwrights: Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Clifford Odets, William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee
“To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.”
“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”
Source: The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion
“What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.”
“An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.”
“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.”
“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
“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
“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”
“The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.”
“I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.”
Source: The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”
Source: The Complete Rougon-Macquart Cycle (All 20 Unabridged Novels in one volume)
“The painting has a life of its own”
Source: Jackson Pollock: black enamel paintings, April-May 1990
Source: The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood
Source: Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen
“Fine art is something wonderful that's left long into the future ... eternal beauty.”
Source: Warhol Memoir
“No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.”
“It is a fine art because it strives for an ideal, not only in plastic but also in lyrical respect.”
Source: My theatre life
“Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.”
Source: Notebooks