arts

"Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas."

"Paint the essential character of things."

"I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences."

"A man paints with his brains and not with his hands."

"One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil."

"Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?"

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."

"My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art."

"What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive."

"What 'War and Peace' is to the novel and 'Hamlet' is to the theater, Swan Lake' is to ballet - that is, the name which to many people stands for and sums up an art form."

"Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting."

"When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination."

"In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects."

"Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything."

"An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will."

"I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art."

"I was an awful critic. I operated on the assumption that there was an absolute scale of values against which art could be measured. I didn't trust my own subjective responses."

"The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun."

"Why must art be static? You look at an abstraction, sculptured or painted, an entirely exciting arrangement of planes, spheres, nuclei, entirely without meaning. It would be perfect, but it is always still. The next step in sculpture is motion."

"Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century."