Sunday, December 5, 2010

Art Quotes from the book understanding Art

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you.- Jackson Pollock

The artist does not see, but what he must make others see. Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.- Edgar Degas

Art is visual formulation of our reaction to life.- Josef Albers.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.- Salvador Dali

It is only by much drawing, drawing everything,drawing unceaslingly that one fine day one is very surprised to find it possible to express something in its true spirit. - Camille Pissarro.

Drawing is among the most personal things you can do. It doesn't have any rhetoric or anything to tell. It's a dialogue between the art and yourself.- Santiago Calatrava


Just dash something down if you see a blank canvas staring at you.. You do not know how paralyzing it is that blank staring of the canvas which says to the painter.: You do not know anything. - Vincent Van Gogh

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.- Jackson Pollock

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