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…
Susan Sontag
“Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.”
Frank Zappa
“Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.”
Gwendolyn Brooks
“Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.”
Muhammad Ali
“The man who has no imagination has no wings.”
Andre Maurois
“An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of…
Beverly Sills
“Art is the signature of civilizations.”
Leo Tolstoy
“Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.”
M. C. Escher
“Are you really sure that a floor can’t also be a ceiling?”
George Santayana
“An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.”
Amy Lowell
“Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of…
Paul Valery
“An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.”
Quintilian
“The perfection of art is to conceal art.”
Alexander Calder
“I paint with shapes.”
John Dewey
“Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart’s desire.”
Max Eastman
“The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.”
Evelyn Waugh
“Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain…
Lincoln Steffens
“Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.”
Edward Hopper
“What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.”
Conrad Hall
“Painting and writing are solitary arts.”
Philip Johnson
“Architecture is the art of how to waste space.”
Roy Lichtenstein
“I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.”
Georgia O’Keeffe
“To create one’s world in any of the arts takes courage.”
David Rockefeller
“I owe much to mother. She had an expert’s understanding, but also approached art emotionally.”
Joseph Joubert
“Imagination is the eye of the soul.”
Edward Steichen
“When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.”
Jean Cocteau
“Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.”
Herman Melville
“Art is the objectification of feeling.”
Robert Delaunay
“Painting is by nature a luminous language.”