no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps. — Uta Hagen Copy Share Image
A wife, a lover, can perhaps never see what the artist sees They rarely ever do. Perhaps a really mediocre artist has… — Jacob Epstein Copy Share Image
A true artist is one who, even after doing a lot, he reminds himself that he hasn't done anything. — Mahesh Bhatt Copy Share Image
There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists. — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
In the post-Warhol era a single gesture such as uncrossing one's legs will have more significance than all the pages in War… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'd fully taken the road many people start on, but most abandon: common sense had given me a miss, and I'd become… — Michael Redhill Copy Share Image
RZA is one of the most unique individuals and rap artists that I have worked with. — El DeBarge Copy Share Image
Works of art cannot save us. They can simply render us more sensitive to what needs to be repaired. — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Capitalists work hard to produce what consumers want. Artists who work too hard to produce what consumers want are often accused of… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
Most reckless things are beautiful in some way, and recklessness is what makes experimental art beautiful, just as religions are beautiful because… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
“What is art? It is not decoration. It is the re-living of experience. The artist says, 'I will make that event happen… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest -- usually a writer or artist with no… — John Millington Synge Copy Share Image
If someone stands in front of one of my paintings and says, 'This is just a mess', the word 'just' is not… — Albert Oehlen Copy Share Image
Modern art must strike out from the old. The new is not revealed to those whose eyes are fastened in worship upon… — Albert Pinkham Ryder Copy Share Image
Every successful painter has worked hard. He cannot rest after having gained a certain degree of facility in drawing, and expect to… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Art is a form of intelligence, it can be developed, it's linked to intuition and it's something that all humans have — Alonzo King Copy Share Image
“We’ve got to get her out of that goddamned art school. Besides, that money could be put to much better use. I… — Elizabeth Garden Copy Share Image
I drew as a child, they tell me. I can vaguely remember doing it. And then I drew again in the late… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place for things… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
“If you opened the dictionary and searched for the meaning of a Goddess, you would find the reflection of a dancing lady.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
When it comes to art, money is an unimportant detail. It just happens to be a huge unimportant detail. — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art; he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Drawing is based upon perspective, which is nothing else than a thorough knowledge of the function of the eye. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The work of art will bring to light a new order inherent in things, and this will be: the idea of unity. — Ferdinand Hodler Copy Share Image
The interesting artists I know are the ones doing political work. The most interesting people I know are the people who care… — Nell Zink Copy Share Image
Another drawing I did I like picture I think I did good on this picture :) — Brianna Ramos Copy Share Image
And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
Whatever is valuable in painting is precisely what one is incapable of talking about. — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
“Certain artists in print or paint flourish, like babies-to-be, in confined spaces.” — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
The search for an equilibrium is essential for the artist, to be as aware of inner space as he is of outer… — Mark Tobey Copy Share Image
The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
No one can ever create art, even on a piece of paper, as they have envisioned it in their mind. — S. S. Rajamouli Copy Share Image
Art should be truth; and truth, unadorned, unsentimentalized, is beauty. — Elizabeth Borton de Trevino Copy Share Image
I think we cannot have a double standard. We cannot see our art as different from the reality. We cannot use two… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Well, predominately, if I'm writing for another artist, I'm sitting there with them and we're writing it together. — Finneas Copy Share Image
In great art there is no beginning and end in point of time. All time is comprehended. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
An uninspiring canvas becomes a glamorous masterpiece when it is reattributed to a better-known artist. — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
Wanting an honest opinion about my art from someone whose opinion I respect makes me feel vulnerable. It's a great space to… — Romany Malco Copy Share Image
In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people. — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
