Artists And Life Quotes

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

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

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.