Visual Arts Quotes

I've never believed in God, but I believe in Picasso.

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

I have tried to do what is true and not ideal.

What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but the subconscious, the mystery of the instinct in the human race.

I don't think any man would ever treat a woman as his equal, and that's all I would ask, for I know I'm worth as much as they are.

I have touched with a sense of art some people—they felt the need of it, and for that I am glad.

When I have a thing to express, I don't think of the way in which it has been done before. I think only of my subject.

Painting is with me but another word for feeling.

A good painter has two chief objects to paint: man and the intention of his soul.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.

I want to create art that makes you think about life and death, and everything in between.

Art is about communication. It's about a dialogue. It's about sharing ideas. It's about sharing feelings. It's about sharing your own humanity.

A work of art is not a thing that is finished, but a thing that is begun.

Simplicity is not an end in art, but we arrive at simplicity in spite of ourselves, as we approach the real meaning of things.

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.

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

From my rotting body, flowers will grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

I am so rich that I must give myself away.