There is Nothing More Artistic Than to Love Others
“Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don’t start measuring her limbs.”
—Pablo Picasso
“Love is probably the strongest and most fulfilling emotion we will experience and it underlies and informs all our enthusiasms…we, as ordinary beings become transformed for the better by love. We are literally filled with emotion, which engenders a positive outlook and truly engages us with others and the world…” —Peter Nixon
“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
“Creativity begins with an affinity for something. It’s like falling in love.” —Csaba Markus
“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
“Through art, I want to share a part of myself. I want people to see the love that I put into it.” —Marcus Glenn
“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.” —Henri Matisse
“(My work) comes from the love to paint. That’s the love that runs in my blood and is the center of my life.” —Itzchak Tarkay
“Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.” —Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
“The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.” —Vincent van Gogh