14,373 Quotes About Art

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Just take my hand, lead, dance with me...and I will simply follow the blueness of the water, the white waves rolling free...where the earth beneath my feet and stars make my heart whole again...in long and priceless moments of shared solitude...

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.