Quotes on Fine Artists

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.

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

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

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

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

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

By trying to understand everything, everything makes me dream

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

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

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can't attain it in anything.

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

I think... it is somehow very useful, and maybe even essential, for a fine artist to have to somehow make his peace on the canvas with all the things he cannot do. That is what attracts us to serious paintings, I think: that shortfall, which we might call 'personality,' or maybe even 'pain.'

Great art picks up where nature ends.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

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.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.