The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
In our time there are many artists who do something because it is new; they see their value and their justification in this newness. They are deceiving themselves; novelty is seldom the essential. This has to do with one thing only; making a subject better from its intrinsic nature.
For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.
It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism.
An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
Being an artist is celebrating life.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.
An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.
Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them.
There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.
Novelty is seldom the essential... make a subject better from its intrinsic nature.
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
The only thing that I am concerned with in life is being an artist .. I had to suppress for so many years in high school because I was made fun of but now I'm completely insulated in my box of insanity and I can do whatever I like.
It is a lifetime effort to come to grips with being an artistic person.
Being an artist means belonging to a unique, exciting gang of outlaws.
I think that being an artist is more an approach to life than an approach to work.
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