'Cause c'mon.
Everyone has things they love to hear.
Most of 'em are artists, btw.
Here are a few I love:
"There is neither painting, nor sculpture, nor music, nor poetry. The only truth is creation."
-UMBERTO BOCCIONI
"To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers."
-PAUL KLEE
"One eye sees, the other feels."
-PAUL KLEE
"Some will not recognize the truthfulness of my mirror. Let them remember that I am not here to reflect the surface... but must penetrate inside. My mirror probes down to the heart. I write words on the forehead and around the corners of the mouth. My human faces are truer than the real ones."
-PAUL KLEE
"Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will."
-PAUL KLEE
"Colour is my day-long obsession, joy and torment."
-CLAUDE MONET
"Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend."
-JOHN SINGER SARGENT
"I don't dig beneath the surface for things that don't appear before my own eyes."
-JOHN SINGER SARGENT
"Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it."
-EDGAR DEGAS
"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do."
-EDGAR DEGAS
"What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming."
-EDGAR DEGAS
"The burdens of a woman are more than the average man could ever endure."
-HONORÉ DAUMIER
"Artists create out of a sense of desolation. The spirit of creation is a excruciating, intricate exploration from within the soul."
-EL GRECO
"You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe."
-JAMES WHISTLER
"I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring."
-JAMES WHISTLER
"I can paint and draw. I believe as much myself and others also say they believe it. But I am not sure that it is true. Only two things are certain: 1. I have never painted a self-portrait. I am less interested in myself as a subject for a painting than I am in other people, above all women. But other subjects interest me even more. I am convinced that I am not particularly interesting as a person. There is nothing special about me. I am a painter who paints day after day from morning until night. Figures and landscapes, portraits less often. 2. I have the gift of neither the spoken nor the written word, especially if I have to say something about myself or my work. Even when I have a simple letter to write I am filled with fear and trembling as though on the verge of being sea-sick. For this reason people must do without an artistic or literary self-portrait. And this should not be regretted. Whoever wants to know something about me--as an artist, the only notable thing--ought to look carefully at my pictures and try and see in them what I am and what I want to do."
-GUSTAV KLIMT
