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A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree.
Oct 1, 2025
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude.
Good artists copy, great artists steal.
It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.
All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.
An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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.
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.
No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.
Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
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