Hedy Lamarr
“A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company,…
Scott Adams
“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”
Ad Reinhardt
“Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.”
Marc Chagall
“All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.”
Andy Warhol
“I’m afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of…
Michelangelo
“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”
Francis Bacon
“The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.”
George Sand
“The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.”
Francoise Sagan
“Art must take reality by surprise.”
Frida Kahlo
“I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.”
Edward Steichen
“Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.”
Gustave Courbet
“I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one…
Paul Klee
“A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.”
Tadao Ando
“There is a role and function for beauty in our time.”
Anton Chekhov
“There is nothing new in art except talent.”
Balthus
“Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the…
Philip Guston
“To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.”
Theodore Bikel
“No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
“No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.”
Marcel Duchamp
“I don’t believe in art. I believe in artists.”
Stella Adler
“Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.”
David Hockney
“What I didn’t know was I was deeply attracted to the big space.”
Lewis Mumford
“To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.”
Sol LeWitt
“Minimalism wasn’t a real idea – it ended before it started.”
Henri Matisse
“Creativity takes courage.”
Terri Windling
“Filmmaking can be a fine art.”
Charles Dudley Warner
“A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.”
Arthur Erickson
“Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.”
Robert Rauschenberg
“An empty canvas is full.”