The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
Joseph Gotto, yeah. Just all-around one of the more inspiring artists - not because of any sort of specific content direction, but rather the respect that I had for his own work and the ability for him to translate his ideas into useful form for me as a student.
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