Jasper Johns
“I am not strong on perfection.”
D. H. Lawrence
“The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.”
Henri Matisse
“I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.”
James Whistler
“An artist’s career always begins tomorrow.”
Paul Cezanne
“The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.”
Sol LeWitt
“When artists make art, they shouldn’t question whether it is permissible to do one thing…
Jean-Michel Basquiat
“I start a picture and I finish it.”
Hans Hofmann
“Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.”
Willem de Kooning
“Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.”
Stephen Sondheim
“Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.”
Lionel Trilling
“What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all…
Steven Pinker
“Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.”
James Schuyler
“To change your phrase somewhat, I know that I like an art where disparate elements…
Robert Smithson
“Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.”
Jerzy Kosinski
“The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.”
Michael Korda
“Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.”
Christo
“The work of art is a scream of freedom.”
Pablo Picasso
“To draw you must close your eyes and sing.”
Alexander Pope
“A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price…
Auguste Rodin
“I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don’t need.”
John James Audubon
“The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.”
Gustave Courbet
“The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist…
Pierre Bonnard
“You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.”
Emily Carr
“Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own,…
Barbara Hepworth
“I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.”
Joshua Reynolds
“A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.”
Herbert Read
“Art is pattern informed by sensibility.”
Alfred de Musset
“Great artists have no country.”
Ludwig van Beethoven
“Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?”
Samuel Beckett
“To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist…