Art cannot be separated from life. It is the expression of the greatest need of which life is capable, and we value art not because of the skilled product, but because of its revelation of a life's experience.
You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.
Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life.
When the motives of artists are profound, when they are at their work as a result of deep consideration, when they believe in the importance of what they are doing, their work creates a stir in the world.
Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers.
Art after all is but an extension of language to the expression of sensations too subtle for words.
There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual- become clairvoyant. We reach then into reality. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness. Such are the moments of our greatest wisdom. It is in the nature of all people to have these experiences; but in our time and under the conditions of our lives, it is only a rare few who are able to continue in the experience and find expression for it.
The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.
The picture that looks as if it were done without an effort may have been a perfect battlefield in its making.
When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and opens ways for better understanding. Where those who are not artists are trying to close the book, he opens it and shows there are still more pages possible.
Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.
We are not here to do what has already been done.
Find out what you really like if you can. Find out what is really important to you. Then sing your song. You will have something to sing about and your whole heart will be in the singing.
Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.
No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.
Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.
To be free, to be happy and to be fruitful, can only be attained through sacrifice of many common but overestimated things.
An artist must first of all respond to his subject, he must be filled with emotion toward that subject and then he must make his technique so sincere, so translucent that it may be forgotten, the value of the subject shining through it.
Personal experimentation is revealing, and once you get into it, immensely engaging.
Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway.
Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.
Paint what you feel. Paint what you see. Paint what is real to you.
Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond the two pretty colors over there. Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.
Those who cannot begin do not finish.
Color is only beautiful when it means something.
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