Behind unfinished art cries an unfinished artist. – Terri Guillemets
Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. – Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark, 1915
Sometimes for an artist the only difference between insanity and genius is success. – Edward Allen Bernero, Criminal Minds, “True Night” (season3, episode10), origina
A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection. – Oscar Wilde
An art critic is someone who appreciates art, except for any particular piece of art. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
An artist cannot talk about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture. – Jean Cocteau, Newsweek, 16 May 1955
The artist does not see things as they are, but as he is. – Alfred Tonnelle
Art is the struggle to understand. – Terri Guillemets
For the mystic what is how. For the craftsman how is what. For the artist what and how are one. – William McElcheran
Art is a kind of illness. – Giacomo Puccini
A great artist is always before his time or behind it. – George Moore
A man and his art are like a fool and his king. – Terri Guillemets
Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation. – Henri Cartier-Bresson
I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum. – Claes Oldenburg
Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing. To morals belong the lower and less intellectual spheres. – Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, 1891
While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality… true art lies in a reality that is felt. – Odilon Redon
The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
