I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these portraits ends up as a picture of a woman with blonde hair. I myself have never been able to work out why this happens.
Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.
Things are beautiful if you love them.
An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
Pictures must not be too picturesque.
What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do. - Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh to His Brother
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.
Painting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back.
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.
Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.
Art is as heavy as sorrow, as light as a breeze, as bright as an idea, as pretty as a picture, as funny as money, and as fugitive as fraud!
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
Drawing and color are not separate at all; in so far as you paint, you draw. The more color harmonizes, the more exact the drawing becomes. When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.
Great art picks up where nature ends.
Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.
Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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