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.”
Henry Moore
“A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet…
Mary Schmich
“Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles…
Robert Indiana
“I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.”
Horace
“A picture is a poem without words.”
Sol LeWitt
“When artists make art, they shouldn’t question whether it is permissible to do one thing…
John Updike
“Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer…
Ansel Adams
“A good photograph is knowing where to stand.”
Otto Dix
“You know, if one paints someone’s portrait, one should not know him if possible.”
Conrad Hall
“Contrast is what makes photography interesting.”
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
“Less is more.”
Le Corbusier
“I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.”
Twyla Tharp
“Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.”