art Quotes

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.