Quotes on Famous Artist

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

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 must be an expression of love or it is nothing.

Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

By trying to understand everything, everything makes me dream

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.