Art and artists - Maxioms.comQuotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxiomshttp://www.maxioms.comen-usCopyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3339<![CDATA[Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3340<![CDATA[Colors that blend with the brick and the dark waters of the city's canals - greens, browns and the strong ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3341<![CDATA[Of all lies, art is the least untrue. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3342<![CDATA[A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3343<![CDATA[Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3344<![CDATA[Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3345<![CDATA[Mine was the role of the oilcan in making the machinery clunk around. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3346<![CDATA[The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3347<![CDATA[The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3348<![CDATA[The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3349<![CDATA[I think that one of the qualifications of artists should be a vow of celibacy. They should be confined to ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3350<![CDATA[A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3351<![CDATA[Art is... a question mark in the minds of those who want to know what's happening. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3352<![CDATA[A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3353<![CDATA[Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3354<![CDATA[Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3355<![CDATA[The studio, a room to which the artist consigns himself for life, is naturally important, not only as workplace, but ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3356<![CDATA[Un croquis vaut mieux qu’un long discours."Fr., "A picture is worth a thousand words. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3357<![CDATA[The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3358<![CDATA[I paint with shapes. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3359<![CDATA[The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3360<![CDATA[I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3361<![CDATA[No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3362<![CDATA[The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3327<![CDATA[As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3328<![CDATA[Pictures must not be too picturesque. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3329<![CDATA[Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3330<![CDATA[In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3331<![CDATA[The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3332<![CDATA[Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3333<![CDATA[Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3334<![CDATA[With an apple I will astonish Paris. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3335<![CDATA[Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3336<![CDATA[Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3337<![CDATA[When one buys some of my artwork I hope it is because they will wish to learn from it and ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3338<![CDATA[Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3314<![CDATA[Great art picks up where nature ends. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3315<![CDATA[My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3316<![CDATA[No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3317<![CDATA[Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3318<![CDATA[You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3319<![CDATA[Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3320<![CDATA[The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3321<![CDATA[Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3322<![CDATA[The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3323<![CDATA[So-called art restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel and sponge. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3324<![CDATA[I have been no more than a medium, as it were. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3325<![CDATA[About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3326<![CDATA[The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3300