
"The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation." -Hilton Kramer

“We don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents” -Bob Ross "In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure." -Aristotle “Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.” -Balthus

He must lead people and help them get acquainted with what he sees.” -George Butendorp "When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, house, a field.Merely think, here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow, and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives your own naive impression of the scene before you." -Claude Monet “Pictures must not be too picturesque.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson “I would like to paint the way a bird sings.” -Claude Monet “The day is an empty canvas, the shapes and colors are yours to choose.” -Alex Noble When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest." -Paul Cezanne The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. "Design and color are not distinct and separate. “Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.” -Edgar Degas “Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.” -Oscar Wilde “When inspiration doesn’t come, I go halfway to meet it.” -Freud “Some artists are criticized, some artists are admired, but some artists are loved and they are the ones who are remembered.” -Amit Kalantri Les Demoiselles d'Avignon by Pablo Picasso “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” -Pablo Picasso She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice it was supposed to make you feel something.” -Rainbow Rowell “My paintbrushes are having a bad-hair-day!” -Lori McNee

“Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers read, study and think a great deal of life…” -Robert Henri “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” -Thomas Merton “An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one.” -Charles Horton Cooley The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” -Pablo Picasso “To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts – such is the duty of the artist.” -Schumman “Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.” -Leonardo da Vinci “Creativity takes courage” -Henri Matisse “Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.” -Pablo Picasso “Art is not a thing it is a way.” -Elbert Hubbard “Every artist was first an amateur” -Ralph Waldo Emerson Inspiring Female Artist Quotes - Motivational Words To Live By Fine Art Quotes By Famous Artists - Inspiring & Iconic Words
