Quotes and sayings of famous artists

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Lord, how sensual and laconically said master painting. Learn to speak beautifully!

Vasily Surikov.
Ivan Desert.
Shishkin
Valentin Serov.
Nikolai Krymov
Kuzma Sergeevich Petrov-Vodkin
Ingres

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Konstantin Korovin
K. Huon
These hues and saturation tsvetosiloy and luminosity in the paintings are heavily dependent on the invoice, in each phase of work.
Painting, not breathing in each of its thousands of colors enrich its colors, is a dead art.
The energy of colors, as well as the energy of form and expression carries with it the energy and impact.
Uchnivs'ka, timid, though sincere, but the protocol work is only the ABC of art. Only when the painter as a result of a long search comes to two or three vigorous strokes of the brush, simply and clearly resolving the problem of form and color, there is the necessary degree of credibility. Eugene Delacroix
the audience something more than accidental connection of unrelated parts, without which there would be no art. When a photographer shoots landscape, you will always see only one piece in the whole; edge of the picture here is as interesting as a central part, and you can only imagine the entire landscape - you can see only a piece, which seemed chosen randomly. Minor here claims the same priority as the main, most often secondary particularly striking and offends them. Need more leniency to imperfect reproduction In a photograph, rather than the creation of creative imagination. The photos that make the greatest impression - are those in which the effect of imperfection of the method of accurate communication by well-known spaces, recreational facilities for the eyes that allow him to focus only on a small number of subjects. If the eye had the power magnifying glass, picture would have been unbearable: we would have noticed all the leaves on the tree, all the tiles on the roof, and tile all the moss, all the insects, etc. And what about the nasty species, which raises the real prospect of - less annoying, they might in the landscape, where the parts, protruding, may be increased, even to excess, do not offend because of how it is with human figures! most stubborn realist should correct this inflexibility in the picture perspective, distorting the view Pavel Chistyakov
Gustave Moreau
Nikolai Mikhailovich Romadin
Van Gogh
And aphorisms with peppercorn from Picasso:


Good artists copy, great artists steal.


Art for the winner only when he is hired to adopt decorators windows.


The artist - a man who wrote that can be sold. A good artist - a man who sells what he writes.


I want to live like a poor man with money


God - the same artist, like other artists.
comments to the aphorism

All have the right to change, even the artists.


Everyone is trying to understand the painting. Why do not they try to understand the singing of birds?


Give me a museum and I'll fill it.


Painting - an occupation for the blind. The artist paints not what he sees and what she feels.


And among the people more copies than the originals.


Art - a lie that makes us able to recognize the truth.


Every child - an artist. The challenge is to remain an artist, coming out of childhood.


Amateur painter understands only a few people. Celebrities - even less.