Jeff Koons
“I think about my work every minute of the day.”
Walt Whitman
“The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of…
Agnes Martin
“My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever…
Marianne Moore
“If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is…
Herbert Read
“The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.”
Harry Seidler
“Good design doesn’t date.”
Max Eastman
“Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice…
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.”
Henry Ossawa Tanner
“I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you,…
Giotto di Bondone
“Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour.”
Joyce Maynard
“The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn.”
Carroll O’Connor
“Even a true artist does not always produce art.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.”
Paul Gauguin
“Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?”
Marvin Gaye
“Great artists suffer for the people.”
Mary Schmich
“Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles…
Francis Ford Coppola
“Art depends on luck and talent.”
Stanley Kubrick
“If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
“Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of…
Jean Rostand
“Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.”
James Whistler
“An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.”
Orson Welles
“The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most…
Baltasar Gracian
“Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to…
William Butler Yeats
“I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.”
Alfred North Whitehead
“Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.”
Khalil Gibran
“Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and…
William Morris Hunt
“The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.”
Wilson Mizner
“It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.”
Franz Liszt
“Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.”
Rebecca West
“Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.”