Helen Hayes
“I cry out for order and find it only in art.”
Ben Hecht
“The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow…
Jeff Koons
“I think about my work every minute of the day.”
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…
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.”
Marvin Gaye
“Great artists suffer for the people.”
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.”
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.”
George Henry Lewes
“Insight is the first condition of Art.”
W. H. Auden
“Art is born of humiliation.”
Ernst Fischer
“I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.”
Roy Lichtenstein
“Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.”
Claude Debussy
“Art is the most beautiful of all lies.”
Henri Rousseau
“Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.”
Alfred Eisenstaedt
“When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.”
Edward Hopper
“If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.”