In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way.An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
- Charles Bukowski -
The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to represent positive truth, but the idealized image of a truth.
- Edward Bulwer Lytton -
The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.
- Auguste Rodin -
What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty.
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
- Pablo Picasso -
There is no abstract art.You must always start with something.Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.
- Arnold Schoenberg -
The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it.
- Oscar Wilde -
Art is a leap into the dark.