Our secret thoughts - do they ever show up? The small flame of our soul can be burning hot, but no one comes to its warmth. Passersby see only a small whiff going through the chimney. Don't we need to...
Only now, years after having read though the works of Shakespeare, Dickens, Scott, Poe, Balzac did he realise that even the most prolific writer created only one novel; throw away the individual bindi...
No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him.
I cannot draw a human figure if I don't know the order of his bones, muscles or tendons. Same is that I cannot draw a human face if I don't know what's going on his mind and heart. In order to paint l...
How difficult it is to be simple.
He turned, stood above the crowd gazing up at him. There was silence in the square. And yet he had never felt such complete communication. It was as though they read each other’s thoughts, as though t...
As he went about to the other workrooms he realised that every painting was a self-portrait even when it was a still life or a scene over the roofs of Paris; for no man ever pictured anything but hims...
Art should be linked to abstract things - color, line, tone. It is not an instrument to improve social conditions and chase ugliness. Painting is like music and it has to separate from everyday realit...
آیا معنی هنرمند بودن، فروختن است؟من خیال می کردم هنرمند کسی است که دائما می جوید بدون اینکه کاملا بیابد. فکر می کردم که مفهوم آن، مخالف «میدانم، آن را یافتم» است. وقتی می گویم که من هنرمندم، فقط مقصود...
Știința este arta de a crea iluzii acceptabile.
When I compare myself to the other fellows there is something stiff and awkward about me; I look as if I had been in prison for ten years.
We are all are cripples in some way.[Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec]
There is only a God-given number of years in which to work and fulfill yourself. Don't squander them.
I was thinking that Rembrandt would have like to paint you.
How could he have been so stupid, so blind? David pictured after Goliath could be no one but the biblical David, a special individual. He was not content to portray one man; he was seeking universal m...
He had come into the autumn of his life: a man had his seasons, even as had the earth. Was the harvesting of autumn less important than the seeding of spring? Each without the other was meaningless.
Have you ever been in love?...in a way.It's always 'in a way.
Every man must settle down once in a lifetime.
Art destroys the life.
A new doctor had been sent for, Lazzaro of Pavia, who had administered to Lorenzo a pulverized mixture of diamonds and pearls. This hitherto infallible medicine had failed to help.