Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.
Action is the foundational key to all success.
Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
To draw you must close your eyes and sing.
I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
Everything you can imagine is real.
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?