By the work one knows the workman. – Jean de La Fontaine
My love of fine art increased – the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see. – Paul Getty
Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist. – Franz Liszt
The principle of art is to pause, not bypass. – Jerzy Kosinski
Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers – and never succeeding. – Gian Carlo Menotti
The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness. – Joan Miro
Trying to force creativity is never good. – Sarah McLachlan
Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued. – Jean Rostand
When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection. – Agnes Martin
Vision is the true creative rhythm. – Robert Delaunay
No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language. – Theodore Bikel
Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers… What we call art is a game. – Octavio Paz
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing. – Eugene Delacroix
Painting is by nature a luminous language. – Robert Delaunay
A painting that is well composed is half finished. – Pierre Bonnard
Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is. – Robert Smithson
When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration. – Edward Steichen
Light in Nature creates the movement of colors. – Robert Delaunay
Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint. – Robert Delaunay
Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums. – Peter De Vries
