Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
An essential element of any art is risk. If you don't take a risk then how are you going to make something really beautiful, that hasn't been seen before?
All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
So I said to myself-I'll paint what I see-what the flower is to me but I'll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking the time to look at it-I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers.
It's clever, but is it Art?
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
All art requires courage.
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.
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.
There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.
Watch a French housewife as she makes her way slowly along the loaded stalls... searching for the peak of ripeness and flavor... What you are seeing is a true artist at work, patiently assembling all the materials of her craft, just as the painter squeezes oil colors onto his palette ready to create a masterpiece.
In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.
Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.
Trying to force creativity is never good.
Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.
Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.
Painting is a means of self-enlightenment.
It is important to express oneself...provided the feelings are real and are taken from you own experience.
When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.
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