Favorite Art Quotations
If you take my sayings and explode them in the air, they remain only sayings. But if you fit them together in their correct places, you will have the whole story.
(Picasso)
Puerto Rican Parrots in Rainforest
Moonlit Window with Vines
Selected Favorite Art Quotations
(A multitude of other quotations can be found on the other pages of this website)
If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.
(Katharine Hepburn)
An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn’t know why they chose him and is usually too busy to wonder why.
(William Faulkner)
I have always found it a testament to the importance of painting that the first thing many people do when their home is on fire is to grab their paintings and then run out.
(Robert Genn)
If I don’t paint for one day, I don’t feel well physically or mentally.
(Raphael Soyer)
It has done me good to be somewhat parched by the heat and drenched by the rain of life.
(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
I paint my own reality. I paint because I need to, and I paint always whatever passes through my head, without any other consideration.
(Frida Kahlo)
I can hide as much as I want in my colours.
(Sara Genn)
When I started to paint I felt transported into a kind of paradise… In everyday life I was usually bored and vexed… Starting to paint I felt gloriously free…
(Henri Matisse)
Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
(M. Kathleen Casey)
Creative people exhibit a continuous discontent with uniformity.
(Glenn Van Ekeren)
The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those which he didn’t commit when he had the opportunity.
(Helen Rowland)
Art is like therapy; what comes up is what comes up. It may be dark, but that’s what comes up. You may want to keep some of it in a drawer… but never judge it.
(Nick Bantock)
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
(Sophia Loren)
People who love art really do need it in the same way they need oxygen.
(Martin Zimet)
For sheer excitement you can keep movie premieres and roller-coasters. An empty white canvas waiting to be filled. That’s the thing.
(Pam Brown)
The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.
(John Ruskin)
Chinese Painting Parrot Tulips
Bougainvillea
Four Seasons III
I might repeat myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things.
(Dorothy Parker)