14,373 Quotes About Art

Whenever an artist becomes dominated by his own ignorance, his art loses value, for it is only the professional artist that can be humble enough to admit that he is a tool in the hands of creativity.

Good composition is like a suspension bridge; each line adds strength and takes none away... Making lines run into each other is not composition. There must be motive for the connection. Get the art of controlling the observer – that is composition.

It was largely my interest in art that had destroyed any life in the world around me. I'd learned perspective, and about balance, and composition. It was as if I'd learned to redesign everything, to reshape it so I saw what OUGHT to be there, which of course is much inferior to what IS there. The dullness was not an inevitable consequence of age, but of education.

An artist does not create the way he lives, he lives the way he creates.

My experience with life is that it's very fragmented. In one place certain kinds of thing occur, and in another place a different kind of thing occurs. I would like my work to have some vivid indication of those differences. I guess, in painting, it would amount to different kinds of space being represented in it.

Without the pain there would not be art, the patterns are the pieces of me i've lost and gained along the way.

If you are a real artist, you give your whole being to your art. Anything short of that, then you are not an artist.

The truth, the all moving magic, the single handed spark of it all wasI found art. And this saved my life.

Art can help us reclaim a sense of wonder in our lives.