Robert Indiana
“I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.”
Peter Max
“If I didn’t choose art, I would have become an astronomer.”
Jack Levine
“Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.”
Alfred Stieglitz
“The goal of art was the vital expression of self.”
Jeff Koons
“I think about my work every minute of the day.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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…
Alfred North Whitehead
“Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.”
William Morris Hunt
“The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.”
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.”
Edgar Degas
“Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.”
Raoul Dufy
“My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.”
Constantin Stanislavski
“Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.”