“Art is a spirit and soul thing. Anything else is mere desperation.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I like to draw, and my drawings are what yell and scream for me. — Jennifer Yuh Nelson Copy Share Image
If I weren't a Jew then I wouldn't be an artist, or at least not the one I am now. — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
I believe that all true art is classic, but the dictates of the mind rarely permit of its being recognized as such… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
There's only so much artistic output that I can actually expel at any one given time. — Karl Urban Copy Share Image
If you're writing for yourself as an artist, you are always pulling on your own experiences. — Alan Menken Copy Share Image
Art or talent, for an artist, is merely a means of applying his personal faculties to the ideas and the things of… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
Art is a guarantee of sanity. That is the most important thing I have said. — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
Artist colonies are notorious for breaking up marriages and housing affairs. — Kerry Cohen Copy Share Image
“Our great artists battle on a landscape we cannot chart, with weapons we do not comprehend, against adversaries we find unreal.” — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Working with artists and other poets has made me aware that there was a bigger "me" that I hadn't been quite aware… — Ron Padgett Copy Share Image
I respect most boxers because they're violent people who learned to discipline themselves ... a good boxer is an artist ... Boxing… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
What the artist is always looking for is the mode of existence in which soul and body are one and indivisible: in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When I was in high school, I was going to be a painter because I had a facility for painting. I could… — Ellen McLaughlin Copy Share Image
I was asked in 1969 by Lucy Lippard to define art. I think at the time I said that art was a… — Tony Shafrazi Copy Share Image
I operate under the assumption that people don't notice the good in me. That's just how things always seem to play out.… — Wendelin Van Draanen Copy Share Image
The Art of Being: A state of wholeness in which the mind functions freely and easily, without the sensation of a second… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image