art Quotes

An artist is always alone – if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

A picture is a poem without words.

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed – it is a process of elimination.

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

Every artist was first an amateur.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.