My Top 10 Artist Quotes About Love
In the arts, as in life, everything is possible provided it is based on love.
— Marc Chagall
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist’s palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
— Marc Chagall
Love wants to rise, not to be held down by anything base… He who loves flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back. Derive happiness from yourself, from a good day’s work, from the clearing that it makes in the fog that surrounds us.
— Henri Matisse
Poetry and painting are done in the same way you make love; it’s an exchange of blood, a total embrace – without caution, without any thought of protecting yourself.
— Joan Miro
Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love.
— Alfred Sisley
The love of color is a fundamental part of the nature of every human being.
— Zoltan Szarbo
I’d asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions… Finally one lady friend asked the right question, ‘Well, what do you love most?’ That’s how I started painting money.
— Andy Warhol
If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.
— William Morris
Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.
— Vincent van Gogh
I have touched with a sense of art some people – they felt the love and the life. Can you offer me anything to compare to that joy for an artist?
— Mary Cassatt
Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.
— Marc Chagall
People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it’s simply necessary to love.
— Claude Monet
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