“Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.”
Quotes about art
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“A picture is a poem without words.”
“An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.”
“A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.”
“An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one.”
“Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.”
“Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.”
“The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.”
“I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.”
“An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.”
“I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.”
“Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.”
“Even a true artist does not always produce art.”
“An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.”
“If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.”
“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.”
“Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.”
“A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.”
“I cry out for order and find it only in art.”
“Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.”
“Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.”
“Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.”
“A great artist is always before his time or behind it.”
“Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.”