H. P. Lovecraft Quotes

The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.

Painting is a duality and abstract painting is an entirely aesthetic thing. It always remains on one level. It is only really interesting in the beauty of its patterns or its shapes.

What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

Draw what you see.

There are websites of 'True Detective' artwork out there now, and it's beautiful. And I don't want to take that away from anybody. I know what it means to me. But I don't want to take away anyone's interpretation of the show.

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.

I don't know why you'd want to say your work comes from nature, because art is related to perception, not nature. All abstract artists try to tell you that what they do comes from nature, and I'm always trying to tell you that what I do is completely abstract. We're both saying something we want to be true.

I love many realists but very strongly resist the notion that realism presents a less stylized, more authentic version of the world.

I'll buy a bottle for anyone who can tell me what makes a picture beautiful!

Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract for he must create his own work from his visual impressions. A realistic or non-objective approach makes no difference. The result is what counts.

The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal.

Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.

I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth.

Abstract paintings must be as real as those created by the 16th century Italians.

I paint the cot, As truth will paint it, and as bards will not.

I tried to find a language for the film - not just telling stories. I picked the Picasso painting because it said more than I could explain. I need images, I need representation which deals in other means than reality. We have to use reality but get out of it. That's what I try to do all the time.

Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?!

Tho' Beauty is generally the creature of fancy, yet are there some who will be Beauties in every eye.

Pure drawing is an abstraction.

Cubism did not accept the logical consequences of its own discoveries; it was not developing abstraction towards its own goal, the expression of pure reality.

The great end of all arts is to make an impression on the imagination and the feeling. The imitation of nature frequently does this. Sometimes it fails and something else succeeds.

No-one who has a real understanding of the art of painting attaches any importance to what we call the subject of a picture - what is represented. To one who feels the language of pictorial form, all depends on how it is presented, nothing on what.