Art should reveal the unknown, to those who lack the experience of seeing it.
— Jaune Quick-To-See Smith, https://seattleartmuseum.org/exhibitions/smith
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for.
— Georgia O’Keeffe
To sense the invisible and to be able to create it, that is art.
— Hans Hoffman
Eliminate the unnecessary so the necessary may speak.
— Hans Hoffman
Abstract art should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed – after a while you may like it or you may not.
— Jackson Pollock
So now the floodgates are open to the delight of pure form, whatever its origin. Anything goes
— Philip Johnson
Abstract art has helped us to experience the emotional power inherent in pure form.
— Anton Ehrenzweig
With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.
— Henri Matisse
Drawing is of the spirit; color is of the senses.
— Henri Matisse
Seek the strongest color effect possible… the content is of no importance.
— Henri Matisse
Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
— Henri Matisse
A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.
— Henri Matisse
Cutting directly into color reminds me of a sculptor’s carving into stone.
— Henri Matisse
Reality has to be digested, it has to be transmuted by paint. It has to be given a twist of some kind.
— Richard Diebenkorn
It is not a matter of painting life. It’s a matter of giving life to a painting.
— Richard Diebenkorn
Be bold!
— Barbara Fugate
What’s so funny about peace love and understanding?
— Nick Lowe
Most of these were gathered at Art Quotes by Painter’s Keys. Do you have a favorite art quote? Please use my contact form to share it with me.