in Quotes & Aphorisms (Art)
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
Send
The best quotes on Art
Posted by: Federico
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Art)
What is drawing? How does one learn it? It is working through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.
Send
Posted by: Rita Tomas
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Art)
I was walking along a road one evening, on one side lay the city, and below me was the fjord. The sun went down, the clouds were stained red, as if with blood. I felt as though the whole of nature was screaming, it seemed as though I could hear a scream. I painted that picture, painting the clouds like real blood. The colours screamed.
Send
Posted by: Federico
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Art)
All great art is born of the metropolis.
Send
Posted by: Cheope
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Art)
Do tou think that until the earth is round, you will be able to find everywhere natural landscapes? Can a round face have more than one nose? There are still few landscapes. They converge all here. Catalunia is the center of the world.
Send
Posted by: Cheope
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Art)
I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the subject grow to look like his portrait.
Send
Posted by: Elisabetta
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Art)
Painting is stronger than I am. It can make me do whatever it wants.
Send
Posted by: Gianmarco El Maxiko
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Art)
The one way for us to become great, perhaps inimitable, is by imitating the ancients.
Send
Posted by: Federico
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Art)
Nature is the best way of understanding art; painters teach us to see.
Send
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Art)
Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
Send