But perhaps my art is the art of a lunatic, I thought, mere glittering quicksilver, a blue soul breaking in upon my pictures. - Marc Chagall

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb. - Jean Arp

What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is in harmony parallel with nature. - Paul Cezanne

Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art. - Leonardo da Vinci

My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make, it's about talking as clearly as I can. - Jim Dine

The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret. - Salvador Dali

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures. - Henry Ward Beecher

Never trust an art dealer who'll sit in a room for more than ten minutes with a crooked picture. - Brett Whiteley

I've never had an easy relationship with critics. I hold a lot of homicide in my heart. If this was another time, I'd be packing a piece. - Jim Dine

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird? - Pablo Picasso

Genius, unlike virtuosity, is judged by the greatness of results, not by the brilliance of performance. - Vincent Tomas

I don't do drugs. I am drugs. - Salvador Dali

Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul. - Henri Matisse

I like boring things. - Andy Warhol

Painting depends on freedom. When you're feeling completely free, you can create, and this power to create is, in turn, the greatest freedom of all. - George Rodrigue

Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory. - Salvador Dali

The first virtue of a painting is that is to be a feast for the eyes. - Eug?ne Delacroix

After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there. - Henri Matisse

To be an artist is to believe in life. - Henry Moore

Skill is less important than awareness. - Graham Collier

I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks. - Andy Warhol

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us. - Henri Matisse

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation. - Max Ernst

I do not think that obsession is funny or that not being able to stop one's intensity is funny. - Jim Dine

The Cubist group of whom you speak experiments only in line, giving color a secondary place, and not a constructional one. - Robert Delaunay

You don't get into the mood to create - it's discipline. - Henri Matisse

I am out to introduce a psychic shock into my painting, one that is always motivated by pictorial reasoning: that is to say, a fourth dimension. - Marc Chagall

The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness. - Robert Delaunay

An empty canvas is a living wonder.. far lovelier than certain pictures. - Wassily Kandinsky

I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it. - Frank Auerbach

It is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. - Salvador Dali

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own. - Charles Dickens

If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it. - Andy Warhol

Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details. - Andy Warhol

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility. - Pablo Picasso

The only rule in art is what works. - Lee Fleming

He was my one and only master!.. I spent years studying them.. Cezanne! He was like the father of us all. - Pablo Picasso

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision. - Salvador Dali

I have always tried to hide my own efforts and wished my works to have the lightness and joyousness of a springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labours it cost. - Henri Matisse

What moves men of genius, or rather what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough. - Eugene Delacroix

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

Seeing is in itself a movement. - Robert Delaunay

Painting gave meaning to my life which without it it would not have had. - Francis Bacon

I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous. - Salvador Dali

What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive in the human race. - Amedeo Modigliani

If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint. - Edward Hopper

Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do its bidding. - Pablo Picasso

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he has to represent it by the attitude and movement of the limbs. - Leonardo da Vinci

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. - Anatole France

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty? - Paul Gauguin

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. - Albert Einstein

This reality is endowed with Vastness (we see as far as the stars), and it then becomes Rhythmic Simultaneity. - Robert Delaunay

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture. - Salvador Dali

Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic. - Salvador Dali

Art is either plagiarism or revolution. - Paul Gauguin

Simultaneity in light is harmony, the rhythm of colors which creates the Vision of Man. - Robert Delaunay

The idea of the vital movement of the world and its movement is simultaneity. - Robert Delaunay

There's really very little one can do about a lot of things. You just accept them. The point is you just have to keep on working and you just have to keep on living. - Jim Dine

My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person. - Andy Warhol

The use of expressive colors is felt to be one of the basic elements of the modern mentality, an historical necessity, beyond choice. - Henri Matisse

I cannot do without something greater than I, something that is my life--the power to create. - Vincent van Gogh

The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves. - Willem de Kooning

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. - Andy Warhol

All good ideas arrive by chance. - Max Ernst

Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about. There is almost nothing you can say that holds up as a generalization... - Roy Lichtenstein

To restrict the artist is a crime. It is to murder germinating life. - Egon Schiele

One of the greatest things in the world is to train ourselves to see beauty in the commonplace. - Charles Hawthorne

When curiosity is alive, we are attracted to many things; we discover many worlds. - Eric Booth

I have never been able to carry out any work coolly. On the contary, it is done, so to speak with my own blood. - Jim Dine

I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people?s plates. - Francis Bacon

The art of a people is the true mirror to their minds. - Jawaharlal Nehru

Art is nature seen in the light of its formal significance. - Leo Stein

It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger. - Andy Warhol

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. - Pablo Picasso

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning. - Salvador Dali

When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then the painting is finished. - Pierre Auguste Renoir

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents. - Salvador Dali

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place; from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider?s web. - Pablo Picasso

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. - Andy Warhol

I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows. - Andy Warhol

Let my enemies devour each other. - Salvador Dali

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. - Paul Cezanne

Art is a technique of communication. The image is the most complete technique of all communication. - Claus Oldenburg

This is either a forgery or a damn clever original. - Frank Sullivan

A self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood. - Tchaikovsky

I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs. - Andy Warhol

All artists are vain, they long to be recognised and to leave something to posterity. They want to be loved, and at the same time they want to be free. But nobody is free. - Francis Bacon

I must see new things and investigate them. I want to taste dark water and see crackling trees and wild winds. - Egon Schiele

If I can get them to think, get them to feel, get them to see, then I've done about all that I can as a teacher. - W. Eugene Smith

This synchronous action then will be the Subject, which is the representative harmony. - Robert Delaunay

Painting is by nature a luminous language. - Robert Delaunay

Once you 'got' Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again. - Andy Warhol

Civilization is what makes you sick. - Paul Gauguin

Land really is the best art. - Andy Warhol

Creativity exists more in the searching than in the finding. - Stephen Nachmanovich

The aim of the painting is that the eye should find out what it likes. - Joanna Field

There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad. - Salvador Dali

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. - Anna Freud

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. - Pablo Picasso

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. - Salvador Dali

When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting. - Francis Bacon

I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting. - Henri Matisse

In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. - Andy Warhol

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. - Francis Bacon

Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible. - Andy Warhol

Art is a harmony parallel with nature. - Paul C?zanne

The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad. - Salvador Dali

Seurat sought for the primary laws. Cezanne demolished the whole of painting since its beginnings. - Robert Delaunay

When having my portrait painted I don't want justice, I want mercy. - Billy Hughes

It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. - J. K. Rowling

Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another. - Jim Dine

Have no fear of perfection, you'll never reach it. - Salvador Dali

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master. - Leonardo da Vinci

You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life. - Salvador Dali

You are lost the instant you know what the result will be - Juan Gris

I am a deeply superficial person. - Andy Warhol

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot. - Salvador Dali

I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say "figment." - Andy Warhol

The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. - Andy Warhol

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing. - Camille Pissarro

The world is but a canvas to the imagination. - Henry David Thoreau

We classify too much and enjoy too little. - Okakura Kakuzo

Sometimes you look at a thing and it has no interest and then you see it in a different way and it has another meaning. Or something that was of no use will become useful. - Jasper Johns

Vision is the true creative rhythm. - Robert Delaunay

In the brush doing what it's doing, it will stumble on what one couldn't do by oneself. - Robert Motherwell

When Chagall paints you do not know if he is asleep or awake. Somewhere or other inside his head there must be an angel. - Pablo Picasso

I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is "In 15 minutes everybody will be famous." - Andy Warhol

I shut my eyes in order to see. - Paul Gauguin

Painting gave meaning to my life which without it it would not have had. - Francis Bacon

I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic. - Andy Warhol

A goal is a dream with a deadine. - Author Unknkown

One can never study nature too much and too hard. - Vincent van Gogh

When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting. - Francis Bacon

The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness. - Robert Delaunay

Mistakes  - never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them. - Salvador Dali

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea." - John Ciard

The men I painted were all in extreme situations, and the scream is a transcription of their pain. - Francis Bacon

An artist's career always begins tomorrow. - James McNeil Whistler

The most exciting thing is not doing it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it's much more exciting. - Andy Warhol

I never think that people die. They just go to department stores. - Andy Warhol

I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant. - Paul Gauguin

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning. - Andy Warhol

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own. - Andy Warhol

You can't express inspiration without skill. - Stephen Nachmanovich

As a rule, someone who has difficulty with painting in any medium is not prepared to believe that the real trouble is ignorance of drawing and composition. - William Herring

Art disturbs, science reassures. - Georges Braque

I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money. - Andy Warhol

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. - Salvador Dali

When I paint, the sea roars. The others splash about in the bath. - Salvador Dali

Painting is the same kind of problem as unfolding a long, sustained interlocked argument.... It is a proposition commanded by a single unity of conception. - Winston Churchill

A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave. - Henri Matisse

Many of life's failures are people who never realized how close they were to success until after they quit. - Thomas Edison

The figure is still the only thing I have faith in in terms of how much emotion it's charged with and how much subject matter is there. - Jim Dine

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality. - Salvador Dali

I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with. - Andy Warhol

There is no must in art because art is free. - Wassily Kandinsky

All my life I have worked to be able to earn my living, but I thought that one could do good painting without attracting attention to one's private life. The pleasure must be found in the work. - Paul Cezanne

Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches. - Andy Warhol

You could say that I have no inspiration, that I only need to paint. - Francis Bacon

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. - Salvador Dali

Creativity does not depend on inherited talent or on environment or upbringing; it is the function of the ego of every human being. - Silvano Arieti