The Masters Painters, the Lords-of-Color-and-Light, left also treasures of wisdom; some of their sentences will be presented here in a collection that will be continuously growing, according to new findings.
Pablo Picasso
(1881 - 1973) Spanish Cubist painter; father of the modern art
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Everything you can imagine is real.
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty, but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman, we don't start measuring her limbs.
Paul Cezanne
(1839 - 1906) French impressionist painter
For an impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
(1475 - 1564) Italian architect, painter, sculptor
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him
free.
Marc Chagall
1887 – 1985) Russian Painter;his semi-surreal works were sometimes childlike and filled with fantasy, yet at other times quite serious and contemplative. His figures and animals sometimes floated in the air or were contorted into impossible positions.
I am out to introduce a psychic shock into my painting, one that is always motivated by pictorial reasoning: that is to say, a fourth dimension.
Will God or someone else give me the strength to breathe the breath of prayer and mourning into my paintings, the breath of prayer for redemption and resurrection?
Alberto Giacometti
(1901 - 1965) Swiss sculptor
The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.
