Art Quotes
Man is a means to that end. Man has no inalienable rights. His only rights are derived from, and conferred by, the state. Under such a system, the fountain of freedom runs dry. Restricted are man's liberties of press and assembly, his freedom to vote, and his freedom to listen and to read. Art, religion, education, music, and science come under the gripping yoke of government control. Man must be a dutiful servant to the omnipotent state.
Every man lives in two realms, the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over, I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.
The arts are essential to any complete national life. The State owes it to itself to sustain and encourage them. I'll fares the race which fails to salute the arts with the reverence and delight which are their due.
Leave to the masters of art trained by a lifetime of devotion the wonderful process of picture-building and picture creation. Go out into the sunlight and be happy with what you see.
Just to paint is great fun. The colours are lovely to look at and delicious to squeeze out. Matching them, however crudely, with what you see is fascinating and absolutely absorbing.
At one side of the palette there is white, at the other black; and neither is ever used neat.
The painter wanders and loiters contentedly from place to place, always on the lookout for some brilliant butterfly of a picture which can be caught and carried safely home.
Every garden presents innumerable fascinating problems.
This beginning with Audacity, or being thrown into the middle of it, is already a very great part of the art of painting.
Painting a picture is like trying to fight a battle.
Do not turn the superior eye of critical passivity upon these efforts .... We must not be ambitious. We cannot aspire to masterpieces. We may content ourselves with a joy ride in a paint-box.
Armed with a paint-box, one cannot be bored, one cannot be left at a loose end, one cannot 'have several days on one's hands.
Painting is a companion with whom one may walk a great part of life's journey.
I do not presume to explain how to paint, but only how to get enjoyment.
A heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me through trying to paint. I accumulated in those years so fine a surplus in the Book of Observance that I have been drawing confidently upon it ever since.
Painting is the same kind of problem as unfolding a long, sustained interlocked argument... It is a proposition commanded by a single unity of conception.
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
No two cities have counted more with mankind than Athens and Jerusalem. Their messages in religion, philosophy, and art have been the main guiding lights of modern faith and culture.
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