14,373 Quotes About Art

The White House usually followed the seagull theory of management: fly in, squawk and flap and shit, and fly away.

Impression — I was certain of it. I was just telling myself that, since I was impressed, there had to be some impression in it … and what freedom, what ease of workmanship! Wallpaper in its embryonic state is more finished than that seascape.

The public for which masterpieces are intended is not on this earth.

'Paint only what you see,' his hero Millet had admonished.'Imagination is a burden to a painter,' Auguste Renoir had told him. 'Painters are craftsmen, not storytellers. Paint what you see.'Ah, but what they hadn't said, hadn't warned him about, was how much you could see.

…Every day I discover even more beautiful things. It is intoxicating me, and I want to paint it all - my head is bursting…

Only art can make the future love you, and that is what art is about: attraction at a distance, seduction from the past, inveiglement from beyond the grave. Art is a plea to love me when I’m gone. And yet, I thought to myself, who could love what I do? Who could possibly love me for this?

Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests

If you have a heartache, don't go to a doctor. Go to a craftsmen. Nowdays only the craftsmen deal with the heart. All the others work for money.

Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.