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Joseph Gotto, yeah. Just all-around one of the more inspiring artists - not because of any sort of specific content direction, but rather the respect that I had for his own work and the ability for him to translate his ideas into useful form for me as a student.
Oct 1, 2025
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.
To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.
The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Great art picks up where nature ends.
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine.
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 object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
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.
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
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