Edward de Bono Quotes

There's an audience for all kinds of great art.

I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.

Even though the museums guarding their precious property fence everything off, in my own studio, I made them so you and I could walk in and around, and among these sculptures.

Art is something special because it can come up with a way of approaching the truth that is a little to the side.

Through art, you create your own world.

I think too many people look at the arts with a religious outlook. Arts, music, singing and performing, it's all make-believe.

Doing my art came out of something very solitary and something that I had no intention of showing anybody, and yet once people saw pieces in my house, it became really clear that there was a great demand for my art.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.

Art is the way people see things, and I think it's great when individuals can find in fashion something they truly believe is artistic.

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

You don't paint pictures to put them in your attic. You want people to look at them.

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.

Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.

A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.

To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination.

I'd never painted anything before. I was quite content to take other people's work since I didn't care anyway about the subject matter. I approached subject matter as a scoundrel. I had nothing to say about it whatsoever. I only wanted to make these exciting paintings.

You don't have to know anything about art to appreciate it or to look at it. There aren't any hidden secrets or things that you're supposed to understand.

I think that one of the most important things that art can do is give you a reason to look at something, almost give you permission to look at something.

I didn't see an abstract painting until I was 18, when I went to Vincent Price's house and saw Richard Niebencorn, Wolff, Jackson Pollack. He had an amazing collection. I didn't know people painted abstractly, I thought I was just doing something wholeheartedly.