Jackson Pollock
“Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.”
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.”
W. Somerset Maugham
“Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.”
Marc Chagall
“I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment.”
John Stuart Mill
“All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.”
Paul Gauguin
“I shut my eyes in order to see.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into…
Pablo Picasso
“Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.”
Michelangelo
“The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.”
Louis Sullivan
“Form follows function.”
Rudyard Kipling
“It’s clever, but is it Art?”
Alfred Stieglitz
“The goal of art was the vital expression of self.”
Henry Ossawa Tanner
“I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you,…
Gustav Mahler
“The real art of conducting consists in transitions.”
Robert Schumann
“To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts – such is the duty of…
Henri Matisse
“I don’t paint things. I only paint the difference between things.”
J. D. Salinger
“An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his…
Marshall McLuhan
“Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.”
Jack Levine
“Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.”
Walt Disney
“I never called my work an ‘art’. It’s part of show business, the business of…
Robert Crumb
“I guess I didn’t enjoy drawing very much. It was like homework.”
Jean-Luc Godard
“A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in…
Constantin Stanislavski
“Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.”
Charles Eames
“Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.”
Peter Max
“If I didn’t choose art, I would have become an astronomer.”
William Wordsworth
“Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.”
Claude Monet
“Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.”
Auguste Rodin
“To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”
Henry Moore
“A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet…