Auguste Renoir Quotes

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.

For a sculptor, a painter, a weaver, a potter, the dialogue between one's materials and what one makes from them is easy to see: discover a new material or a new way to use a familiar one, and new things can be made, sometimes leading to the discovery of more new material, leading to more creation.

I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style.

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

Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.

I take a pretty expansive view of craft, which is to say I don't see craft as just being technique - it's also process; subject; ideas and feelings; visions and dreams; the words that are put down and the words that are avoided.

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

There's nothing more special than intellect and labour that makes painting work. There's no magic there; it's information, and it's work.

Art is craft, not inspiration.

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

Preliminary drawings or sketches in oil or pastel often have an immediacy and emotional appeal far greater than the final canvas.

A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.

No, I never had any dreams. The process of art is a dream in itself. The artist just doesn't... you work out something. It's yours. You don't have to go to sleep to do that. You do that on the canvas.

I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient.

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

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

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

There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.

Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that.

By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.

I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art.

I think that an artist should be a skilled craftsman.

In a painting, you can't make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist's stroke.

I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter. To me, the making of the pictures is the most important thing.

All my paintings are usually done in drawing form, very small. I make notations in drawings first, and then I make a collage for color. But drawing is always my notation.