"I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning."
Submitted by Quonation
Category: Art
"Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still."
"Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling."
"An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it."
"Art is not a thing; it is a way."
"Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth."
"Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun."
"Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass."
"Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered."
"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."
"Pictures must not be too picturesque."
"I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own."
"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."
"Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century."
"Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others."
"Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything."
"When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art."
"My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art."
"Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time."
"The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art."
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