Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.
A painting that is well composed is half finished.
At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first 'feeling' for a person, or for art, or for religion, I was affectionate, good, and even pious: by that I mean that under the influence of my mother, I was devoted to the Child Jesus.
Art is the path to being spiritual.
I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness and change, or at least some discussion.
Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.
I believe economic growth should translate into the happiness and progress of all. Along with it, there should be development of art and culture, literature and education, science and technology. We have to see how to harness the many resources of India for achieving common good and for inclusive growth.
Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what's already there.
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
You can't stop an artist from expressing his views through art.
No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
Every artist was first an amateur.
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
Pictures must not be too picturesque.
Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the 'Not Me,' that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, 'Nature.'
My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.
What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.
Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.
A lot of cinematography is intuition. It's an art, not a formula.
Each mountain in the Dolomites is like a piece of art.
Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.
Enjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction.
The art of delegation is one of the key skills any entrepreneur must master.
Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation.
I like the art of making money more than the money.
Technology is a compulsive and addictive way to live. Verbal communication cannot be lost because of a lack of skill. The ability to listen and learn is key to mastering the art of communication. If you don't use your verbal skills and networking, it will disappear rapidly. Use technology wisely.
I think good art does come from a dark place.
Painting is by nature a luminous language.
Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.
Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.
Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many.
I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.
I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.
When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.
To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.
It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.
Wherever art appears, life disappears.
Layer by layer art strips life bare.
All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.
Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
You begin with the possibilities of the material.
The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.
To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.