Posted by: Samuele Marazzita
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Art)
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
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It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
I don't search. I find.
I was walking along a road one evening, on one side lay the city, and below me was the fjord. The sun went down, the clouds were stained red, as if with blood. I felt as though the whole of nature was screaming, it seemed as though I could hear a scream. I painted that picture, painting the clouds like real blood. The colours screamed.
A truly well made bottom is the only link between Art and Nature.
He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.
Art could never equal the richness of nature.
Art is not made to decorate rooms. It is an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy.
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot; others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Nature is the best way of understanding art; painters teach us to see.
Everything is at once reality and symbol.