The mind, as you age, Is an artist, it seems. Monet paints your mem’ries, Picasso your dreams. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
It is a shame to see in the work of an artist the limitations of his critics. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Art is an attempt to understand, yielding pleasure in the attempt whether or not we understand. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
An art critic is someone who appreciates art, except for any particular piece of art. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
O, how much simpler things would be If eyes could paint or brush could see. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
As any artist can tell you, it is easier to reach perfection than to stop there. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
In the great artist you see daring bound by discipline and discipline stretched by daring. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
A successful artist is inspired by his muse, and his muse is inspired by the payment of a commission. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, said Browning, and so it has - extended by the length of an… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
On the sixth day, God created the artist, realizing no doubt that He had far from exhausted the uses of color. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
You can think of a painter as a trio - the artist, his talent and his muse, the last two always on… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
An art critic is someone who hopes to see his ideas translated to canvas without having to learn how to paint. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
There is in every artist's studio a scrap heap of discarded works in which the artist's discipline prevailed against his imagination. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
To the artist, the Book of Genesis is an account of six days in which God suggested some really good ideas. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
A painting is what you make of it, besides which, 'Moon, Weeping' has a better ring to it than 'Paintbrush, Dripping. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Among those born into chaos, some will imagine an order and become scientists; a few will recognize the chaos and become abstract… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Are you an artist? Look about you. Is there a physical tool whose use you have mastered, a part of your body… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
There is always, in the fine arts, a physical interface between the artist's esthetic vision and the material result he seeks. The… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Abstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
The artist gazes upon a reality and creates his own impression. The viewer gazes upon the impression and creates his own reality. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
There is in art the notion of less is more, which is to say, you don't torture a painting that has already… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Every great artist raises art to a science, and every great scientist raises science to an art, hence we have Michelangelo's David… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
The artist's talent sits uneasy as an object of public acclaim, having been so long an object of private despair. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
You will not find a soulmate in the quiet of your room. You must go to a noisy place and look in the quiet… — Robert Breault Copy Share
Never mind the odds against you. If you doubled your effort, what would the odds against you do — send for reinforcements? — Robert Breault Copy Share
Retirement is having nothing to do and someone always keeping you from it. — Robert Breault Copy Share
There is in art the notion of less is more, which is to say, you don't torture a painting that has already confessed. — Robert Breault Copy Share
One's dream is defeated not by unsolvable problems, but by all the more-or-less satisfactory solutions that kill it forever. — Robert Breault Copy Share
In the end you regret less the things you believed that weren't true than the things that never came true because you didn't believe. — Robert Breault Copy Share
The trick to getting ahead is to give it the same effort you give to getting even. — Robert Breault Copy Share
Man will have replicated his own intelligence not when he teaches a computer to reason but when he teaches a computer to have a… — Robert Breault Copy Share
To hurt someone you know will forgive you is the unkindiest thing of all. — Robert Breault Copy Share
As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent - that it does not have to be recognized by others. — Robert Breault Copy Share
As a gardener, I wonder if flowers really can't speak or just exercise unfailing good judgment in the matter. — Robert Breault Copy Share
Genius is a plodding intellect, incapable of dreaming up the obstacles that stop the rest of us. — Robert Breault Copy Share
