Art(212)

"It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression."
Henri Matisse

"I have been no more than a medium, as it were."
Henri Matisse

"What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue."
Henri Matisse

"All autobiography is self-indulgent."
Daphne du Maurier

"Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century."
Marshall McLuhan

"A man paints with his brains and not with his hands."
Michelangelo

"The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection."
Michelangelo

"Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle."
Michelangelo

"I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes."
Bette Midler

"The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist."
Henry Mille