arts

"Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul."

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

"Errors are not in the art but in the artificers."

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

"Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste."

"Every good painter paints what he is."

"Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind."

"In the summerI stretch out on the shoreAnd think of you. Had I told the seaWhat I felt for you,It would have left its shores,Its shells,Its fish,And followed me."

"Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art."

"Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together."

"We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art."

"Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life."

"There will be very few occasions when you are absolutely certain about anything. You will consistently be called upon to make decisions with limited information. That being the case, your goal should not be to eliminate uncertainty. Instead, you must develop the art of being clear in the face of uncertainty."

"Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake."

"Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still."

"You don't take a photograph, you make it."

"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry."

"Art imitates life and, sometimes, life imitates art. It's a weird combination of elements."

"The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality."

"When money and hype recede from the art world, one thing I won't miss will be what curator Francesco Bonami calls the 'Eventocracy.' All this flashy 'art-fair art' and those highly produced space-eating spectacles and installations wow you for a minute until you move on to the next adrenaline event."