Art Quotes

Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night,flowers,everything around one without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting, peopel have to understand.- Pablo Picasso

The beautiful is in nature,and it is encountered in the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found, it belongs to art,or,rather to the artist who discovers it- Gustave Courbet

I try not to have things look as if chance had brouhgt them together,but as if they had necessary bond between them.- Jean Francois Millet

Art is not a handicraft; it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. - Leo Tolstoy

Works of art all through the ages show us in the clearest fashion how mankind has changed,how a stage that has once appeared never reappears.- Philipp Otto Runge

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldm't say in any other way- things I had no words for-- Georgia O'Keeffe

The more basic the color, the more inward, the more pure.- Piet Mondrian

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color-- not color used descriptively, that is,but as a means of personal expression.- Henri Matisse

I find it important to draw attention to thinking and doing as well as to what happens in between, to lightness and heaviness to the energy that oscillates between.- Magdalena Jetelova

How can you say one style is better than another? You ought to be able to be an Abstract-Expressionist next week,or a Pop artist, or a realist, without feeling you've given up something.-- Andy Warhol.

All the really good ideas had come to me while I was milking a cow.- Grant Wood