"Of all lies, art is the least untrue." - Gustave Flaubert
"To draw, you must close your eyes and sing." Pablo Picasso
"No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger." ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
“The artist who aims at perfection in everything, achieves it in nothing.” Eugène Delacroix
“In order to move others, I must be moved.” Niccolo Paganini
"One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes." Andrew Wyeth
“A painting that is well composed is half finished.” Pierre Bonnard
"Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal." Egon Schiele
There is only one thing more impressive than the grandiose paintings at the Louvre...
We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep. ~ William James
Wise words in the ring and in life from the late Muhammad Ali: Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee
Unlike the images of seduction created by his predecessors, Renoir's is a fleeting moment that caught by chance middle-class Parisians immersed in nature, possibly a local park, not set before a studio backdrop.
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest. ~ Paul Cezanne
It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly. ~ Claude Monet
Whether with a glove or a paintbrush, you can make everything you create uniquely yours.
Art, after all, is but a form of imitation...
We can all relate to yearning for the space to set ourselves free, in body and in spirit...
Art becomes you... or do you become art?
If only painter and subject could enjoy the same sweet idleness...