"The Art Spirit" Quotes
A timeless guide to igniting creativity and embracing the essence of art.
art | 284 pages | Published in 1929
Quotes
Do whatever you do intensely.
Art is not a thing; it is a way.
The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.
When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.
The artist is the only free man. He is not afraid of anything.
Paint what you really see, not what you think you ought to see.
Every artist knows that there is no such thing as art... There is only life, and life is an eternal movement.
The object of painting a picture is not to make a picture... The picture is but a by-product of the artist's contemplation of a subject.
To paint is to love again, and to love is to live abundantly.
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object.
