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The purpose of art is enjoyment

Quote: Nicolas Poussin

If there were only one truth, one could not paint a hundred pictures on the same subject.

Quote: Pablo Picasso

Even bad artists have good reasons and intentions.

Quote: Musil Robert

The artist lacks the talent to be an average person.

Quote: Mitsch Werner

The curse of the artist: to be judged all his life by people who have less imagination, taste and heart than he does.

Quote: Roda Roda

The intellectual gets to the heart of the matter - the artist is content with the juicy pulp.
The artist often dies. Because he changes.

Quote: Groll Gunter

The artist is that unique being who has the least to say, but knows best how to say everything that needs to be said.

Quote: Gütersloh

The artist perceives what non-artists call "form" as content.

Quote: Nietzsche Friedrich

The artist must work with composure; too much participation spoils the work.

Quote: Thoreau Henry David

The artist must delight or torment his audience. He must make them cry or laugh.

Quote: Walser Robert

The task of the artist is to invent, not to report.

Quote: Wilde Oscar

An artist can do anything but be unfaithful to himself. maurer artist Maurer Elisabeth I paint things as I think them, not as I see them.

Quote: Picasso Pablo

All art is soliloquy.

Quote: Michel

Painting is a purely sensual art of feeling, which should not be mixed up with textual explanations.

Quote: Lovis Corinth

The language of art is understood everywhere.

Quote: Lu Lun

He entered the picture plane and fell out of the frame.

Quote: Bising Joseph

It is an art to define it.

Quote: Lec Stanislav Jerzy

It's different in art than in soccer. You score the most goals when you are offside.

Quote: Dali Salvador

Art has nothing to do with taste. Art is not there to be tasted.

Quote: Max Ernst

Drawing is the art of drawing lines.

Quote: Klee Paul

All true works of art appear as if they were created out of joy.

Quote: Robert Henri

I am not an artist who has ideas. I hate ideas. And if I have one anyway, I go for a walk to forget it. I need the uncertainty, the not knowing. It's actually like a performance, you don't know exactly what's going to happen beforehand. So, at best I'm a blank slate when I go into the studio. Unfortunately, I'm often a blank slate when I go out.

Quote: Robert Rauschenberg

The content is a communication problem that the artist tries to avoid, because the viewer has to carry and invent the content of the picture within himself

Quote: Markus Lüpertz

As a child, everyone is an artist. The difficulty lies in remaining one as an adult.

Quote: Pablo Picasso

Drawing is language for the eyes, language is painting for the ear.

Quote: Joseph Joubert

Only one thing about modern paintings is understandable: the signature.

Quote: Ephraim Kishon

Art is not an occupation, art always occupies the artist.

Quote: Willi Baumeister

Art is a complicated phenomenon.

Quote: Wassily Kandinsky

Art quotes & wisdom - inspiring and philosophical