Artists

“The value of art is in the observer. When you find out what you like, you're really finding out about yourself.”

“In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.”

“A wall is a very big weapon. It's one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.”

“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.”

“Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist.”

“Pies, ¿para qué los quiero si tengo alas pa' volar?”

“Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?”

“Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time.”

“All art is erotic.”

“What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity, devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter.”

“I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.”

“六才にして物の形状を写すの癖ありて”

“From the age of six I had a mania for drawing the forms of things. By the time I was fifty I had published an infinity of designs, but all I produced before the age of seventy is not worth taking into account.”

“Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.”

“Il più nobile piacere è la gioia di comprendere.”

“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”

“Art is a guarantee of sanity.”

“I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.”

“The hardest thing is to do something which is close to nothing.”

“I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions—tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.”

“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”

“L'art est un mensonge qui nous fait comprendre la vérité.”

“Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.”

“Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.”

“Choose only one master—Nature.”

“Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.”

“Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.”

“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”

“Color is a power which directly influences the soul.”

“Forget yourself. Become one with eternity. Become part of your environment.”