If there were beauty in every aspect of our lives, we would have no further need for art.
—Piet Mondrian
I love death and I love life.
—Egon Schiele
We all know art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
—Pablo Picasso
As I can, but not as I would.
—Jan Van Eyck
Everything is very complex and profound, if you want to see it like that.
—Cesar Santos
Every artist was first an amateur.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.
—Unknown, German
When the camera reproduces a painting, it destroys the uniqueness of its image.
—John Berger
Gotta have opposites: dark and light, light and dark in painting. It’s like in life. Gotta have a little sadness once in a while so you know when the good times come. I’m waiting on the good times now.
—Bob Ross
The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength.
—Marcus Aurelius
The only thing that an old man can tell a young man is that it goes fast, REAL fast, and, if you’re not careful, it’s too late. Of course, the young man will never understand this truth.
—Norm MacDonald
Look for grand light and grand shadow, the rest will come of itself, and often doesn’t amount to much anyway.
—Edouard Manet
Art is long and time short. —John F. Carlson
A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth. —John Singer Sargent
If you feel out of place, you’re in the right place. — Unknown
Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. — César A. Cruz