“Painting is by nature a luminous language.”
Quotes about art
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“A painting that is well composed is half finished.”
“Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.”
“When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.”
“Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.”
“Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.”
“Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.”
“It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.”
“Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.”
“The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.”
“Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.”
“When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.”
“You begin with the possibilities of the material.”
“Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.”
“I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.”
“It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.”
“Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.”
“Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.”
“I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.”
“I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many.”
“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.”
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.”
“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”
“The art of love is largely the art of persistence.”