“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts
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“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”
Source: Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)
“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)
“To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.”
“Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.”
Source: Warhol Memoir
“If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.”
“No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.”
“Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.”
Source: Notebooks
“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
“Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.”
“For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.”
Source: Paul Strand: the world on my doorstep : an intimate portrait
“Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers.”
“Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.”
“While the world of reality has its limits, the world of your imagination is without boundaries”
Source: Being in Balance: 9 Principles for Creating Habits to Match Your Desires
“Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.”
“My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.”
“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
“The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.”
“Every artist was first an amateur.”
Source: Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims
“In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.”