E. M. Forster
“History develops, art stands still.”
James Taylor
“That’s the motivation of an artist – to seek attention of some kind.”
Marshall McLuhan
“Art is anything you can get away with.”
Jean Cocteau
“Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.”
Leo Tolstoy
“Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.”
Orson Welles
“A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head…
Charles Eames
“Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.”
Peter Max
“I never know what I’m going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself.…
James Whistler
“An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.”
Andy Warhol
“Don’t pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.”
Auguste Rodin
“I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don’t need.”
Audre Lorde
“Art is not living. It is the use of living.”
Al Capp
“Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.”
Stanley Kubrick
“If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.”
Sarah McLachlan
“Trying to force creativity is never good.”
John Dewey
“Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart’s desire.”
John Updike
“What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.”
Rebecca West
“Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.”
Dick Dale
“Every song is like a painting.”
Beatrice Wood
“And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just…
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
“Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.”
Henri Rousseau
“Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.”
Herbert Read
“The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.”
Norman McLaren
“Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that…
William Blake
“Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.”
Gustave Courbet
“Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of…
Hans Hofmann
“Through a painting we can see the whole world.”
Claude Bernard
“Art is I; science is we.”
Rene Magritte
“Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.”
Alfred Eisenstaedt
“When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.”