Visual Arts Quotes

Art is a line around your thoughts.

Everything is art. Everything is politics.

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

I am a modern Alice in Wonderland.

Pop Art is not American painting but industrial painting.

The most important tool the artist fashions is himself.

The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

The new art is not a search for a new style, but for a new vision.

I have transformed myself in the zero of form and dragged myself out of the rubbish of academic art.

One must not imitate what one wants to create.

I want to make of Impressionism something solid and durable like the art of the museums.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

The pain passes, but the beauty remains.

The artist who is not a man of his time is nothing.

My business is to paint what I see, not what I know.

The sleep of reason produces monsters.

I would rather be the first painter of common things than second of higher ones.

I have never had the good fortune to hear of a single authentic utterance by Vermeer.

What is the use of a beautiful statue if it is not placed in a beautiful setting?

All art is but imitation of nature.