Charles Eames
“Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.”
Auguste Rodin
“To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.”
Beatrice Wood
“And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just…
Robert Mapplethorpe
“To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.”
Claude Monet
“Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.”
Clara Schumann
“My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.”
Charles de Lint
“The best artists know what to leave out.”
Havelock Ellis
“Man lives by imagination.”
Walt Disney
“I never called my work an ‘art’. It’s part of show business, the business of…
Ashley Montagu
“The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.”
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.”
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.”