An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

I do not want to be interesting. I want to be good.

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

Even a true artist does not always produce art.

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can not eat it.

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

I cry out for order and find it only in art.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.