Art

 

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci, artist and scientist

 

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. ~ Francis Bacon, artist

 

Creativity takes courage. ~ Henry Matisse, French painter, sculptor and lithographer

 

Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish. ~ Michaelangelo, Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet

 

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ~ Pablo Picasso, painter, sculptor, graphic artist and ceramist

 

For an artist , a cathedral that is falling down has all those bricks with which to build! ~ James Hubbell, visual artist

 

Art is a proven meditation. ~ Wayne Thiebaud, painter

 

One only invents that which is. ~ Jean Fautrier, painter

 

Every story is completed by the reader. ~ Grace Paley, writer

 

Every painting is completed by the viewer. ~ Barbara Jackson, painter

        

I chronicle, I do not judge. ~ John singer Sargent, painter

 

I believe in everlastingness. I never finish a painting---I just stop working on it for a while. ~ Arshille Gorky, painter

 

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such little time to prepare oneself for eternity! ~ Paul Gauguin, French painter

 

My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece. ~ Claude Monet, French painter

 

Colour is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. ~ Claude Monet, French painter

 

The element of risk is part of the challenge of watercolor. ~ Robert Blair, painter

 

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist. ~ Edward Hopper, American artist

 

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination. ~ Edward Hopper, American artist

 

What I want to do is to distort the thing far beyond the appearance, but in the distortion to bring it back to a recording of the appearance. ~ Francis Bacon, painter

 

It is not hard to compose, but it is wonderfully hard to let the superfluous notes fall under the table. ~ Johannes Brahms, composer

 

There are certain mysteries, certain secrets in my own work which even I don't understand, nor do I try to do so. ~ Georges Braque, painter

 

Art is research into the unknown, adding a little to the fund built up by earlier generations. ~ Olle Baertling, painter

 

It's all a big game of construction, some with a brush, some with a shovel, some choose a pen. ~ Jackson Pollock, artist

 

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. ~ Albert Szent-Gydorgyi, writer

 

If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as you change your shirts. ~ Francis Picabia, artist

 

There are some artists who want to tell all, but I feel it is more shrewd to tell little. ~ Mark Rothko, painter

 

In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and we shall want to live more musically.

~ Vincent Van Gogh, painter

 

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real. ~ Lucian Freud, British Painter

 

The source of my painting is the unconscious. I have no fears about making changes or destroying the image, because the painting has a life of its own. ~ Jackson Pollock, painter

 

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music. ~ Joan Miro, Spanish painter

 

An artist is not paid for his labor, but for his vision. ~ James McNeil Whistler

 

All gardening is landscape painting. ~ Horace Walpole

 

When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. ~ Georgia O’Keefe

 

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations. ~ Paul Cezanne

 

Choose only one master: Nature. ~ Rembrandt, Dutch painter and etcher

 

You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat. ~ Pierre August Renoir, French Impressionist painter

 

I have seen that in any great undertaking it is not enough for a man to depend simply upon himself. ~ Lone Man (Isna-la-wica) Teton Sioux

 

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew. ~ Marshall McLuhan

 

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. ~ Albert Einstein

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. ~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.

 

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. ~ unknown

 

The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood. ~ Andre Breton, French poet

 

The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read. ~ Paul Cezanne, painter

It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture. ~ Paul Cezanne, painter

 

My name is Marc, my emotional life is sensitive and my purse is empty, but they say I have talent. ~ Marc Chagall, Russian Painter

 

To give body and perfect form to your thought, this alone is what it is to be an artist. ~ Jacques Louis David

 

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master. ~Leonardo Da Vinci

 

I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me. ~ Henry Matisse, French painter, sculptor and lithographer

 

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. ~ Frida Kahlo, artist 

 

A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave. ~ Henry Matisse, French painter, sculptor and lithographer

 

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all. ~ Michaelangelo, Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet

 

Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do its bidding. ~ Pablo Picasso, painter, sculptor, graphic artist and ceramist

 

To be an artist is to believe in life. ~ Henry Moore, British Sculptor