James Taylor
“That’s the motivation of an artist – to seek attention of some kind.”
Marc Chagall
“Great art picks up where nature ends.”
George Sand
“The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.”
Francoise Sagan
“Art must take reality by surprise.”
Frida Kahlo
“I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.”
William Hazlitt
“Rules and models destroy genius and art.”
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.”
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.”
Lewis Mumford
“To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.”
Iris Murdoch
“Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than…
Louis Dudek
“The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first…
Terri Windling
“Filmmaking can be a fine art.”
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.”
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…
Richard Wright
“The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.”
Marcel Proust
“Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.”
Andrew Wyeth
“It’s a moment that I’m after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.”
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.”