| As music is the poetry of sound, so is
painting the poetry of sight and the subject-matter has
nothing to do with harmony of sound or of color.
James McNeill
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An artist is not paid for his labor but for
his vision.
James McNeill
Whis
Art is coming face to face with yourself.
That's what's wrong with Benton. He came face to face with
Michelangelo-- and he lost.
Jackson Pollock
It is art that makes life, makes interest,
makes importance . . . and I know of no substitute whatever
for the force and beauty of its process.
Henry James
All art is an individual's expression of
a culture. Cultures differ, so art looks different.
Henry Glassie
Art among a religious race produces relics;
among a military one, trophies; among a commercial one,
articles of trade.
Henry Fuseli
Precision is not reality.
Henri Matisse
It has bothered me all my life that I do
not paint like everybody else.
Henri Matisse
The artist is the child in the popular fable,
every one of whose tears was a pearl.
Heinrich Heine
The ability to simplify means to eliminate
the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
Hans Hofmann
A great artist… must be shaken by the naked
truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent,
this disequilibrium, this state of inner tension is the
source of artistic energy.
Goethe
They see poetry in what I have done. No.
I apply my methods, and that is all there is to it.
Georges Seurat
Art is made to disturb. Science reassures.
There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot
explain.
Georges Braque
But, after all, the aim of art is to create
space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration,
space within which the subjects of painting can live.
Frank Stella
The job of the artist is always to deepen
the mystery.
Francis Bacon
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