Artistas Acerca del Arte

Cual es el propósito del artista?
"All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions." -Leonardo Da Vinci
"The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot." -Salvador Dalí
"Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement." -Jackson Pollock
"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free." -Michelangelo Buonarroti
"Art does not imitate, but interpret." -Giuseppe Mazzini
"The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited." -William Saroyan
"Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one consciously, by means of certain external symbols, conveys to others the feelings one has experienced, whereby people so infected by these feelings, also experience them." -Leo Tolstoy
"God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things." -Pablo Picasso
"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist." -Oscar Wilde

Qué es el arte?
"Art is what you can get away with" -Andy Warhol
"We, by our arts may be called the grandsons of God" -Leonardo Da Vinci
"The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection." -Michelangelo Buonarroti
"In order to correctly define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure and consider it as one of the conditions of human life. ...Reflecting on it in this way, we cannot fail to observe that art is one of the means of effective communication between people." -Leo Tolstoy
"Art is what poetry can't describe; Poetry is what art can't picture." -Anonymous

Calidad
"There's only one kind of painting. It is the painting that presents the eye with perfection" -William-Adolphe Bouguereau
"The artist is the creator of beautiful things." -Oscar Wilde
"A painter is a man who paints what he sells. An artist, however, is a man who sells what he paints." -Pablo Picasso
"An artist must observe Nature, but never confuse it with the art." -Pablo Picasso
"Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad." -Salvador Dalí
"The entire 'my art is better than your art' thing really gets under my skin. The fact of the matter is: Your art IS better than my art... at being what it is. So what? It just so happens that my art is better than your art, at being what it is." -Derek Audette

El rol del público en el arte
"Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic." -Oscar Wilde
"Criticize by creating" -Michelangelo Buonarroti
"Talking about art is like dancing about architecture." -David Bowie
"When the established members of academia start becoming vocal as to how poor your art is, then you know you're on to something." -Derek Audette

Debe una obra empeorar/mejorar por medios externos?
"Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always becomes ugly with time." -Jean Cocteau
"No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are true can be proved." -Oscar Wilde
"Abstraction is an exercise in a pre-assured failure. It is a futile attempt to communicate the non-communicable" -Derek Audette
"All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions." -Leonardo Da Vinci