Quotes about Art

The work of the artist is to lift up people's hearts and help them endure.

I made it on the bevel.

Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.

Life is the art of being well-deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

I want to reach that state of condensation of sensations which constitutes a picture.

What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure. It is through it that I best succeed in expressing the almost religious feeling I have towards life.

Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul

Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while working.

The essential thing is to spring forth, to express the bolt of lightning one senses upon contact with a thing. The function of the artist is not to translate an observation but to express the shock of the object on his nature; the shock, with the original reaction.

A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.