Art quotes | Painting, drawing, funny and inspirational art quotes / aphorisms

Painting, drawing, funny and inspirational art quotes / aphorisms

'Every child is an artist and every artist is a born again artist.' – Francis Rubbra. Feel and think like an artist. A unique look at how artist's think, art quotes the artist's way. Quotes from the book, 'Rebel without a palette'.

There is only one coloured light in art, it’s a green light for all kinds of naughty-but-nice mayhem.

March 30, 2021March 30, 2021 by Francis Rubbra

There is only one coloured light in art, it’s a green light for all kinds of naughty-but-nice mayhem.

Mediocre art excels at irrelevance, great art excels at relevance.

March 30, 2021March 30, 2021 by Francis Rubbra

Mediocre art excels at irrelevance, great art excels at relevance.

The greater the art the greater its truth expands equally in all directions.

March 30, 2021March 30, 2021 by Francis Rubbra

The greater the art the greater its truth expands equally in all directions.

Art is learning the patterns of one’s reactions to events as they occur in a medium.

March 10, 2021March 30, 2021 by Francis Rubbra

Art is learning the patterns of one’s reactions to events as they occur in a medium.

According to the ‘Swiss Cheese’ theory, artists get through life by finding holes in it.

December 26, 2020March 10, 2021 by Francis Rubbra

In art, truth is objective by virtue of its subjective truth.

December 26, 2020March 10, 2021 by Francis Rubbra

In art, truth is objective by virtue of its subjective truth.

Scumbling is the application of opaque colour in a broken fashion so as not to completely obscure lower layers of paint.

December 26, 2020March 30, 2021 by Francis Rubbra

‘Beam me up Scotty’ is the most googled search term made by people who visit art galleries.

December 25, 2020March 10, 2021 by Francis Rubbra

Artists are the rules that prove the exceptions.

December 25, 2020March 10, 2021 by Francis Rubbra

Creativity can never run dry, but its inner workings do need to be understood.

December 25, 2020March 10, 2021 by Francis Rubbra

The greatest bravery in art is not knowing what to paint and to paint it.

December 25, 2020March 10, 2021 by Francis Rubbra

Imagination is a space vehicle that allows us to escape from and towards ourselves at the speed of light, a non-physical bodily fluid, and a tool for staying out of touch with reality.

December 25, 2020March 10, 2021 by Francis Rubbra

Precision in art is the failure of imprecision in art.

December 25, 2020March 10, 2021 by Francis Rubbra

Great art is an event horizon, a ceiling of visual profundity, and a boundary beyond which we know with absolute certainty that sublime beauty, in whatever visual form it exists, does so by the hand and grace of God.

December 25, 2020March 10, 2021 by Francis Rubbra

Today, everyone is a statistic, and being an artist no longer sets us apart; when everyone in the street self-identifies as an artist, the true artist gets a job as a cleaner.

December 25, 2020March 10, 2021 by Francis Rubbra

Life is long if you only tickle art.

December 25, 2020March 10, 2021 by Francis Rubbra

The role of an artist is to be an observer, their duty is to be open-minded, and their obligation is to feel and think, but in practice, it doesn’t necessarily go in that order.

December 25, 2020March 10, 2021 by Francis Rubbra

The purpose of art is to keep the positive energy of the universe flowing.

December 25, 2020March 10, 2021 by Francis Rubbra

A good Composition allows the viewer’s eye to walk through and out of the back of the canvas.

December 25, 2020March 11, 2021 by Francis Rubbra