Jenova Chen Quotes

To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.

I was being an artist, being sensitive and technical as artists are. I'm sure Leonardo Da Vinci did that. Artists don't always feel the same as others feel about their work.

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

If what you want to do is make good art, decide what's good and try to imitate it.

Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions.

I had a natural feeling for sculpture, and the nudes are my sculpture.

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

The body, in 'La Belle Noiseuse,' was the source of the artist's creativity.

Fine art is knowledge made visible.

Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.

The hard part is how to plan a picture so as to give to others what has happened to you. To render in paint an experience, to suggest the sense of light and color, of air and space.

Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough.

I have improved the way in which I paint. The colours are cleaner and there is more energy in the brush work.

When I first drew him I had eyes in there and it didn't look right.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.

I suppose I consider my work a kind of picture making.

I think anytime you see something that's been brought to life by an artist's hands, it just has a different kind of quality.

Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.

Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.

The artist is called a creator.