Quotes about Art

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

When I have a terrible need of — shall I say the word — religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

In spite of everything, I shall rise again; I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.

If you work with love and intelligence, you develop a kind of armour against people's opinions, just because of the sincerity of your love for nature and art. Nature is also severe and, to put it that way, hard, but never deceives and always helps you to move forward.

What color is in a picture, enthusiasm is in life.

We spent our whole lives in unconsous excercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words

How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

I work as diligently on my canvases as the laborers do in their fields.

My great longing is to learn to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, changes of reality, so that they may become, yes, untruth if you like - but more true than the literal truth.