Corita Kent
“That’s why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with…
Georges Braque
“Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.”
Jeff Rich
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
Henri Cartier-Bresson
“The photograph itself doesn’t interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of…
George Edward Moore
“A great artist is always before his time or behind it.”
Louis Sullivan
“Form follows function.”
Federico Fellini
“All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.”
Charles Ives
“Every great inspiration is but an experiment – though every experiment we know, is not…
Dick Dale
“Every song is like a painting.”
Egon Schiele
“Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.”
Eugenio Montale
“In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.”
Joshua Reynolds
“A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.”
Jasper Johns
“I am not strong on perfection.”
D. H. Lawrence
“The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.”
Henri Matisse
“I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.”
Sol LeWitt
“When artists make art, they shouldn’t question whether it is permissible to do one thing…
Jean-Michel Basquiat
“I start a picture and I finish it.”
Stephen Sondheim
“Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.”
Lionel Trilling
“What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all…
Steven Pinker
“Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.”
James Schuyler
“To change your phrase somewhat, I know that I like an art where disparate elements…
Michael Korda
“Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.”
Christo
“The work of art is a scream of freedom.”
John James Audubon
“The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.”
Barbara Hepworth
“I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.”
Ludwig van Beethoven
“Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?”
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.”