The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.
It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.
I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.
It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him.
Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy.
All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.
In every human being there is the artist, and whatever his activity, he has an equal chance with any to express the result of his growth and his contact with life. I don't believe any real artist cares whether what he does is 'art' or not. Who, after all, knows what art is?
Art is an outsider, a gypsy over the face of the earth.
There is no art without contemplation.
Good composition is like a suspension bridge; each line adds strength and takes none away... Making lines run into each other is not composition. There must be motive for the connection. Get the art of controlling the observer – that is composition.
In great art there is no beginning and end in point of time. All time is comprehended.
No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.
Art after all is but an extension of language to the expression of sensations too subtle for words.
Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life.
Everything depends on the attitude of the artist toward his subject. It is essential.
The true artist regards his work as a means of talking with men [and women], of saying his say to himself and to others. It is not a question of pay.
Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra thing.
Art is the giving by each man of his evidence to the world. Those who wish to give, love to give, discover the pleasure of giving. Those who give are tremendously strong.
Art tends toward balance, order, judgment of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of living – very good things for anyone to be interested in.
Art need not be intended. It comes inevitably as the tree from the root, the branch from the trunk, the blossom from the twig. None of these forget the present in looking backward or forward. They are occupied wholly with the fulfillment of their own existence.
Each man must take the material that he finds at hand, see that in it there are the big truths of life, the fundamentally big forces, and then express in his art whatever is the cause of his pleasure.
Perhaps whatever there is in my work that may be really interesting to others and surely what is interesting to me, is the result of a sometimes successful effort to free myself from any idea that what I produce must be art.
Art cannot be separated from life. It is the expression of the greatest need of which life is capable, and we value art not because of the skilled product, but because of its revelation of a life's experience.
The world will see many fashions of art and most of the world will follow the fashions and make none. These cults - these 'movements' - are absolutely necessary, or at any rate their causes are, for somewhere in their centres are the ones who bear the Idea, the ones who have questioned, 'But what do I think?' and 'How shall I say it best?
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