Gian Carlo Menotti
“Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers – and never…
Ansel Adams
“A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.”
Richard Wright
“The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.”
Robert Rauschenberg
“You begin with the possibilities of the material.”
Marcel Proust
“Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.”
Andrew Wyeth
“It’s a moment that I’m after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.”
Jean Anouilh
“Things are beautiful if you love them.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.”
Saul Bellow
“What is art but a way of seeing?”
Wassily Kandinsky
“An empty canvas is a living wonder… far lovelier than certain pictures.”
Alma Gluck
“Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic,…
John Keats
“The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.”
Charles Horton Cooley
“An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.”
Thomas Wolfe
“Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.”
Pablo Picasso
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
Jessamyn West
“Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.”
Helen Hayes
“I cry out for order and find it only in art.”
Ben Hecht
“The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow…
Paul Cezanne
“It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.”
Otto Dix
“You know, if one paints someone’s portrait, one should not know him if possible.”
J. Paul Getty
“The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and…
Hans Hofmann
“Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.”
Walter Annenberg
“People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.”
Alfred de Vigny
“Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation…
Steve Lacy
“I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.”
Martin Kippenberger
“Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.”
Conrad Hall
“Contrast is what makes photography interesting.”
John Galliano
“But I’m not an artist. Maybe an artist with a small a.”
Ad Reinhardt
“Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.”
Robert Indiana
“I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.”