Albert Camus Quotes

It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism.

There is no reason for me to show my collection in New York, because it's not about craft and technique there.

My paintings are rubbish.

I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.

Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.

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.

Just because someone said painting is dead doesn't mean that it's a fact or the truth - painting is the soul food of art, in a way.

Clare Henderson creates the most beautiful delicate prints and paintings.

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

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.

A painter may be looking at the world in a way which is very different from everyone else. If he's a craftsman, he can get other people to see the world through his eyes, and so he enlarges our vision, perception, and there's great value in that.

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

I seldom have my stuff up unless I'm testing it. If I'm worrying about a painting, I put it up and see if I detest it quickly or slowly. Otherwise I have things by other artists.

I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.

I thought maybe I could become like the next Van Gogh. I bought a sunflower and painted it, and it looked like the work of a 6-year-old.

The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.

I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective.

The reason the art world doesn't respond to Kinkade is because none - not one - of his ideas about subject-matter, surface, color, composition, touch, scale, form, or skill is remotely original. They're all cliche and already told.

There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.

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

I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.

To paint well, I need to be enraptured by my subjects.

One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form.