Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

Art is what you can get away with.

It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.

The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.

Art is the proper task of life.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Art without emotion its like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag. Speak

There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.

Imgination rules the world

I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.

Art is making something out of nothing, and selling it.

All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but production.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. Truth Against the World: Frank Lloyd Wright Speaks for an Organic Architecture

The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The Picture of Dorian Gray

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

A photograph is usually looked at- seldom looked into.

To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes.

Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. The Picture of Dorian Gray

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness Earth from Above

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.