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.”
Alfred Sisley
“Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love.”
Henry Ossawa Tanner
“I will preach with my brush.”
Jackson Pollock
“I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has…
Camille Pissarro
“Paint the essential character of things.”
Emile Zola
“I am an artist… I am here to live out loud.”
Gian Carlo Menotti
“Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers – and never…
Jean Anouilh
“Things are beautiful if you love them.”
Saul Bellow
“What is art but a way of seeing?”
Wassily Kandinsky
“An empty canvas is a living wonder… far lovelier than certain pictures.”
Alma Gluck
“Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic,…
Charles Horton Cooley
“An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.”
Thomas Wolfe
“Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.”
Jessamyn West
“Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.”
Helen Hayes
“I cry out for order and find it only in art.”