Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

Besides, Weebles are too hard to draw - they just end up looking like eggs, not people.

In school, I never really grasped drawing the nude form.

Painting and sculpture help other people to see what a wonderful world we live in.

Portraiture is something that we're all drawn to. I think primarily other forms - we prefer, by and large, to look at human beings than a bowl of fruit.

I'm not one of those artists having people there lying around on their paintings, you know, like Hockney or whoever.

What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.

It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to look like the person.

In the visual arts, particularly painting, I distrust all those abstractions, those artificial constructions. I have a very simple way of judging them: if I can do them, they are not art.

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.

I like to paint nudes mostly.

Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.

I continue to write essays about art. The visual is always part of my work, and it gives me immense pleasure to make up the words of art and create them verbally rather than build them.

Botticelli would have made a very good fashion photographer. He did eight heads instead of seven heads in a body, which is fashion illustration.

People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence.

I'm pretty rubbish, as we say in Britain, artwise, and I always envy people who can pick up something and even do just a little doodle of someone that looks vaguely like them. It's impressive.

I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.

If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.

When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't.

The reason I don't like realist, photorealist, neorealist, or whatever, is that I am as interested in the artificial as I am in the real.

I used to paint landscapes without any people in them but now I paint people who happen to be in a particular place. They might be outside a pub, or on a beach or in a studio. They might have clothes on or they might not.

I've done figure drawing classes or whatever.

In Giacometti's work, the armature has once again become the life-line of the sculpture, and also, he's brought back to sculpture a nervous sensitivity which the 'pure carving' side of sculpture can lose sight of altogether.

I have done only two portraits: one of the artist Francesco Clemente and another of Andy Warhol.