If one looks closely enough, one can see angels in every piece of art.
My inspiration is art... because without art, we would just be stuck with reality.
The question of common sense is always what is it good for? a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.
What you often see in a lesser work of art is a subject captured perfectly and never set free
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Art is when you hear a knocking from your soul and you answer.
Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like � then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.
His soul palpitating with love of art...
Picasso would give up cubism just to capture your curves.
Art is art, even when unsuccessful.
There is in every artist's studio a scrap heap of discarded works in which the artist's discipline prevailed against his imagination
The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands
They tell you that the great painters mixed blood with their pigments. It is not true; the compound used was brains.
Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.
Architecture begins where engineering ends.
Good architecture lets nature in.
Architecture should be dedicated to keeping the outside out and the inside in.
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.