Paul Cezanne Quotes

The reason the art world doesn't respond to Kinkade is because none - not one - of his ideas about subject-matter, surface, color, composition, touch, scale, form, or skill is remotely original. They're all cliche and already told.

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.

Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.

As regards the efficacy of the art and the theories of it, I promise and expect that in these volumes I shall undoubtedly show myself of very considerable importance not only to builders but also to all scholars.

The writer concerned more with technique than truth becomes a technician, not an artist.

As an artist, you have the job of working out whatever is given you to work out.

The great artist when he comes, uses everything that has been discovered or known about his art up to that point, being able to accept or reject in a time so short it seems that the knowledge was born with him, rather than that he takes instantly what it takes the ordinary man a lifetime to know, and then the great artist goes beyond what has been done or known and makes something of his own.

There is nothing new in art except talent.

If what you want to do is make good art, decide what's good and try to imitate it.

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.

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

For hundreds of years people have talked about artists having inspiration, but often, some persons would say, write us a symphony or write us a song, on commission. The artists would come up with a masterpiece without waiting to have their muse inspire them.

If the paying public demands naturalistic art, then an artist can use his skills to produce such pictures - but these are to be clearly distinguished from the artist's own art.

It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism.

I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.

It's very important that an artist's job is to be a great artist.

It's really amazing to stand in front of a work you haven't seen before and be almost overwhelmed by its beauty and the vision and execution of the artist.

Clare Henderson creates the most beautiful delicate prints and paintings.

Leave to the masters of art trained by a lifetime of devotion the wonderful process of picture-building and picture creation. Go out into the sunlight and be happy with what you see.

I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.

The artist is called a creator.

So is fighting incompleteness the source of artistic neurosis? I doubt it. At most, this would apply to artists who deal with particular kinds of problems. I don't think we should think of Haydn or Mozart or Dickens or George Eliot in these terms.

If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.

My mom is an artist and my own fiction is deeply visual.

An artist's flair is sometimes worth a scientist's brains.