Alfred Sisley Quotes

My first artistic love was drawing and painting.

I love what Monet, Picasso, Van Gogh and Jesus all said - that love is really the driving principle of the creative act. In fact, they would say that great art is always inspired by love.

In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

Wonder and awe are the diet of the artist and without them the world would be far less meaningful to us than it is.

I have so much love for art.

I'm inspired by art - in whatever form it takes. I love when I see a painting or a photograph that captures my attention.

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

Music has always been a part of me and art in general. I love visual art as well.

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography.

I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.

I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.

Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.

In my previous life, I was an artist. I still paint. I love art.

We're all going about trying to make beauty in the world and trying to make order out of chaos. And that's what art is.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.

One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.

I need art around me always.

I'm an artist, and I love the visual. Fashion is high art sometimes and hack work other times, but it's something worthy of study and love.

The most important thing is to have a point of view and have something to say. That is important if you are filmmaker or artist. That means you have to experience the world.

An artist's love for what they create is what creates love.

The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.

You need the art in order to love the life.

More important than having a romance with the object that I'm drawing, is to have a romance with the mark that I am making.