Art Quote by Miyamoto Musashi

When a painting is finished, it's like a new born child, and the artist himself must have time for understanding. How then do you…

— Henri Matisse

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part knowthe…

— Blaise Pascal

“How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection. An artist is emotional, they…

— Isaac Asimov

To be sure an artist wishes to raise his standard intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain in obscurity. Pleasure must…

— Paul Cezanne

If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art.

— Eugene Ionesco

'Understanding' art is like having a sense of humour - if you don't have one, no amount of explanation is going to make you…

— Michael Craig-Martin

An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create.

— Michelangelo

What's so astonishing about not understanding? There are so many things in art, beginning with art itself, that one doesn't understand. A painter doesn't…

— Henri Matisse

A person is able to understand only when he solves the problem by himself.

— Peter Deunov

Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.

— Robert Rauschenberg

“Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his conscious reflection, his progressive…

— Rainer Maria Rilke