Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Do not concern yourself with other people. Concern yourself with your own work alone.
I was 11 when I was first introduced to live drawing classes and going to art school.
The invention of photography destroyed the canons of representational, imitative art.
It's not enough that you believe what you see. You must also understand what you see.
Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness.
Black is like a broken vessel, which is deprived of the capacity to contain anything.
The mind that engages in subjects of too great variety becomes confused and weakened.
Given the cause nature produces the effect in the briefest manner that it can employ.
Who would believe that so small a space could contain the images of all the universe?
Fire destroys all sophistry, that is deceit; and maintains truth alone, that is gold.
The water which rises in the mountains is the blood which keeps the mountain in life.
My art would be that of living: each moment, each breath is a work inscribed nowhere.
I try to work every day, even when I'm not motivated. Ritual is very important to me.
A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.
I must begin, not with hypothesis, but with specific instances, no matter how minute.
There could be a hundred paintings in every one painting, depending on when you stop.
I'm just a simple man standing alone with my old brushes, asking God for inspiration.
My studio is the only place I feel good in. There, I'm fearless; outside, I'm a mess.
Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap.
I'm compelled and dedicated to transmitting emotions and I care for very little else.
It's a simple liberating reality - the best things in life are mine for the choosing.
High culture is paranoid about sentiment. But human beings are intensely sentimental.
Drawing is the root of everything, and the time spent on that is actually all profit.
Not knowing all of the conventions of beauty, he [Tom Thomson] found it all beautiful.
Possessing talent is nothing more than the continuous pursuit of a life-long interest.
All you need to paint is a few tools, a little instruction, and a vision in your mind.
Ninety per cent of the theory of Impressionist painting is in . . . Ruskin's Elements.
Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
So many people say painting is fun. I don't find it fun at all. It's hard work for me.
You really need faith in yourself to make art and to stand up for what you believe in.
Colour is a human need like water and fire. It is a raw material indispensable to life
The act of painting is about one heart telling another heart where he found salvation.
First be a magnificent artist and then you can do whatever, but the art must be first.
I am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me.
La ve rite existe; on n'invente que le mensonge. Truth exists; only lies are invented.
I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.
I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract.
I don't think you can lightly paint a picture. It's an activity I take very seriously.
Nothing is more uninteresting than completely knowing somebody, being totally at ease.
The real function of art is to change mental patterns ... making new thought possible.
You have to observe flowers in order to find the right tones for the folds of clothes.
The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.
No man who can do any one thing well will be able to any different thing equally well.
A lot of times maturing as an artist is just starting to do the things you like to do.
That should be something that an artist can respond to as well in terms of a painting.
Every work of art which really moves us is in some degree a revelation: it changes us.
New material demands new methods, and new methods fling a challenge to old convention.
Anyone who invokes authors in discussion is not using his intelligence but his memory.
No, the thing to do is try to make a painting that will be alive in your own lifetime.
I never calculate. That is why those who do, calculate so much less accurately than I.