Art Quotes

"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." "If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced." "To draw you must close your eyes and sing." "I am not one of those who believe that taking drugs produces a permanent bettering of the human mind. Every great writer, every genuine artist, has had the experience of being intoxicated by language." "I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free." "What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive." "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?" "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." "There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people." "The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction." "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 purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls." "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." "All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." "Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth" "I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. " "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. " "It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child. " "Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions. " "Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. "