Auguste Renoir Quotes

There's a new Mozart, a new Miles Davis, a new Misty Copeland, a new Matisse potentially languishing in a math class somewhere. If we fail to introduce them to art, we fail humanity.

I think, for the most part, our culture embraces that artists are born, not made.

I've never been able to understand where great artists come from.

My mother was an artist, and I was fairly good at art as a child. I was always the best drawer in class, except in second grade when an artistic genius passed through our school!

An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.

We don't really want to think that the artist is only very skilled, that he has merely devoted his life to perfecting a certain set of intelligible skills.

When you deal with Alan Ball, you're dealing with a person who is a genius in terms of how art imitates life.

I have such deep appreciation for artists who have the ability to create something from within, something completely unique and original to each piece of work.

Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.

because talent alone doesn't make an artist

One type of concentration is immediate and complete, as it was with Mozart. The other is plodding and only completed in stages, as with Beethoven. Thus genius works in different ways to achieve its ends.

Normal people do not create art.

If you study a great work of art, you'll probably find the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different to you and me. So let's have no talk of temperamental, self-absorbed and petulant babies. Being a good artist is the toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to take it on. I love them all.

A writer writes with his genius; an artist paints with hers; everyone who creates operates from this sacramental center.

What a genius, that Picasso. It is a pity he doesn't paint.

The artist does not exist except as a personification, a figure of speech that represents the sum total of art itself. It is painting that is the genius of the painter, poetry of the poet, and a person is a creative artist to the extent that he participates in that genius.

Many have genius, but, wanting art, are forever dumb. The two must go together to form the great poet, painter, or sculptor.

I think that for thousands of years people have made the observation that there are certain kinds of extreme depressive states that seem to be more likely to produce philosophers, people in the arts, unusually brilliant scientists.

Talent is what drives this world ... Doesn’t matter how many satellites you f---ing stick in the air.

Genius is a talent only for living, those who possess it have little gift for dying.

I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul

Artists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.

Talent has the four seasons: spring, that is to say, the sowing of the seeds; summer, growth; autumn, the harvest; winter, intellectual death. But there is now and then a genius who has no winter, and, no matter how many years he may live, on the blossom of his thought no snow falls. Genius has the climate of perpetual growth.

There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.

Talent seduces us into interpretation. My sister could draw wonderfully, but she would never have hit upon the idea of becoming a painter. I never had that extreme talent.