Art Quotes

"If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced." "The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference." "The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls." "Give me a museum and I'll fill it." "Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. " "Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions. " "It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child. " "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. " "I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. " "Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth" "All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." "Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen." "To draw you must close your eyes and sing." "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 end up as the Pope.' Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso." "The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction." "There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people." "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." "Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy —the joy of being Salvador Dalí— and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things is this Salvador Dalí going to accomplish today?" "What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive." "I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."