“The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.”
Quotes about art
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“Of all lies, art is the least untrue.”
“Art is either plagiarism or revolution.”
“Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.”
“The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.”
“A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.”
“Every artist writes his own autobiography.”
“Great art picks up where nature ends.”
“When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.”
“The perfection of art is to conceal art.”
“My painting does not come from the easel.”
“Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.”
“Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.”
“Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.”
“Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.”
“Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.”
“Wherever art appears, life disappears.”
“I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.”
“An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.”
“The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.”
“The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.”
“I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.”
“I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.”
“The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.”