quotes by Sculptor Quotes

“The first object of the painter is to make a flat plane appear as a body in relief and projecting from that plane”

“Poor is the man who desires a lot”

“Things severed shall be united and shall acquire of themselves such virtue that they shall restore to men their lost memory: - That is the papyrus sheets, which are formed out of several strips and preserve the memory of the thoughts and deeds of men.”

“The wisest and noblest teacher is nature itself.”

“Why assume that to look is to see?”

“Oh! Speculators on things, boast not of knowing the things that nature ordinarily brings about; but rejoice if you know the end of those things which you yourself device.”

“Today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets from society because we refuse to admit to ourselves that there is any danger in keeping them in our midst.”

“For a long time I limited myself to one colour - as a form of discipline.”

“All things considered, there is only Matisse.”

“The mind of a painter should be like a mirror which is filled with as many images as there are things placed before him.”

“Painting is concerned with the ten things you can see: these are darkness and brightness, substance and color, form and place, remoteness and nearness, movement and rest.”

“Nature alone is the master of true genius.”

“If everybody is looking for it, then nobody is finding it. If we were cultured, we would not be conscious of lacking culture. We would regard it as something natural and would not make so much fuss about it. And if we knew the real value of this word we would be cultured enough not to give it so much importance.”

“Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.”

“The young man should first learn perspective, then the proportions of objects. Next, copy work after the hand of a good master, to gain the habit of drawing parts of the body well; and then to work from nature, to confirm the lessons learned.”

“If I knew what the meaning of art was, I wouldn't tell you.”

“Motivation is in the world around us. We have an infinite amount of material at our disposal, in the lives of those we meet, in what we see and feel, in what we discuss and from the passion of every woman.”

“One day the world will look upon research upon animals as it now looks upon research on human beings.”

“I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand.”

“It is a well-known fact that we see the faults in other's works more readily than we do in our own.”

“Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.”

“Slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood.”

“Especially learn how to see.”

“The lie is so vile, that even if it were in speaking well of godly things, it would take off something from God's grace; and Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble.”

“Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.”

“You should often amuse yourself when you take a walk for recreation, in watching and taking note of the attitudes and actions of men as they talk and dispute, or laugh or come to blows with one another... noting these down with rapid strokes, in a little pocket-book which you ought always to carry with you.”

“Water is the driving force of all nature.”

“All children paint like geniuses. What do we do to them that so quickly dulls this ability?”

“To blossom forth, a work of art must ignore or rather forget all the rules.”

“When I paint I feel that all the artists of the past are behind me.”

“One can have no more mastery over the environment, than one has over himself.”

“No one should ever imitate the style of another because, with regard to art, he will be called a nephew and not a child of nature.”

“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”

“As regards this vice, we read that the peacock is more guilty of it than any other animal. For it is always contemplating the beauty of its tail, which it spreads in the form of a wheel, and by its cries attracts to itself the gaze of the creatures that surround it. And this is the last vice to be conquered.”

“If I don't have red, I use blue.”

“Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it is kept in use.”

“[In developing your potential] ... I don't develop; I am”

“The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself.”

“I put in my pictures everything I like. So much the worse for the things - they have to get along with one another.”

“Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.”

“Age only matters when one is aging. Now that I have arrived at a great age, I might as well be twenty.”

“I draw like other people bite their nails.”

“When I haven't any blue I use red.”

“I want to know one thing, what is color?”

“Those who, in debate, appeal to their qualifications, argue from memory, not from understanding.”

“Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.”

“Painting isn't a question of sensibility; it's a matter of seizing the power, taking over from nature, not expecting her to supply you with information and good advice.”

“If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!”

“Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.”

“To find is the thing.”