Quotes on Fine Arts

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

Arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, — finding things ready-made for a machine to record, and of course the mechanics of the medium. I say that chance enters into all branches of art.

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.'

There is no must in art because art is free.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

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.