Art Quotes

"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." "To draw you must close your eyes and sing." "If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all." "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. " "Give me a museum and I'll fill it." "Film is the art of lying, 24 lies per second." "Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth" "The most exciting thing about film is it gives you a voice, it lets you be heard" "I am my own experiment, I am my own work of art"