It is only the educated who can produce or appreciate high art. — Margaret of Valois Copy Share Image
The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace. — Barry McGee Copy Share Image
One of the chief motives of artistic creation is certainly the need of feeling that we are essential in relationship to the… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
It's good for art to make us think, to give us a shared experience that creates a dialogue, makes us talk to… — Janet Echelman Copy Share Image
Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that… — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
Photography is better than art. It is a solar phenomenon in which the artist collaborates with the sun. — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
As an artist, there are times when you need to take a leap of faith... For me, it's important that the gaze… — Sayani Gupta Copy Share Image
I've always had an explorative drive to my art, as opposed to wanting to achieve some certain goal. — O. T. Fagbenle Copy Share Image
For an intelligent estimate of your technique go to another artist working in the same medium. — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Part of my gradual education of myself has been to think that there is a deep relationship between the nature of the… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
It never occurred to me that artists, of all people, have to be reminded that instinct is more important than tradition, but… — Lexi Alexander Copy Share Image
“All art is, indeed, a monotony in external things for the sake of an interior variety, a sacrifice of gross effects to… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
Getting into the paint is easy. Seeing if the help comes is easy - they either come or they don't. The hard… — Caris LeVert Copy Share Image
The bohemian artist who exists only for his art, it's a myth. OK, it might have been true for Giacometti, but it… — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
If we see an object as a bowl, it may inhibit seeing it as craft, just as seeing it as craft might… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Never did much art till I was in my 30s, except for painting video sets, designing record covers and T-shirts, and making… — Hunx Copy Share Image
...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The appeal all too often is to the gallery, hungry for sensation. — Otto Hermann Kahn Copy Share Image
The real value of art is not always revealed by the price set upon it. — Jeffrey Loria Copy Share Image