34 result(s) for Risking Life For Art Quotes.
"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."
"I am an artist... I am here to live out loud."
"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."
"The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery."
"Art is a line around your thoughts."
"To send light into the darkness of men's hearts – such is the duty of the artist."
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"Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable."
"The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection."
"Creativity takes courage."
"Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known."
"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize."
"If I am I because I am I, and you are you because you are you, then I am I and you are you. However, if I am I because you are you, and you are you because I am I, then I am not I and you are not you."
"An artist must never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success."
"Every good painter paints what he is."
"I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality."
"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do."
"The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?"
"Art is never finished, only abandoned."
"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."
"Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad."
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"You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul."
"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for."
"I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream."
"Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider."
"To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist."
"The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see."
"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web."
"The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing."
"There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality."
"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."
"An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one."
"We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master."
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."
