Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.
Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
Great art picks up where nature ends.
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
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