“For art is about desire, is it not, and never its consummation?” — A. Manette Ansay Copy Share Image
An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The best way to begin is to say: 'Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have… — Balthus Copy Share Image
Art is not created in a vacuum. That experience is something to be shared with a group of people, and to be… — Walton Goggins Copy Share Image
Having trained in theatre, that is what I enjoy most as it gives the scope to grow as an artist with every… — Rohini Hattangadi Copy Share Image
I knew that I must paint not what I saw, but only what was in me, in my soul. — Alexej von Jawlensky Copy Share Image
A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity.” — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
A common defect of modern art study is that too many students do not know why they draw. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
“Water Lilies' is an extension of my life. Without the woter the lilies cannot live, as I am without art.” — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
The immortality of great art seems bound up with the inevitable loss of its original surface meaning and its rebirth in the… — Anton Ehrenzweig Copy Share Image
“Our bloodlust to destroy as much of Nature as possible will be exposed for what it is: the jealous rage of a… — Petronius Jablonski Copy Share Image
“At the head of the table, where the roots of the fallen tree create a high, twisted chair, is a man. His… — Zoraida Córdova Copy Share Image
It's how you tell the story that makes it new. That's what artists do. They let us look at the world from… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
I work on stretched linen canvas, sized so that the surface already has a sense of tension when I begin. It is… — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
I have a feeling that art is something you do for yourself, and that any time you turn your decisions over to… — William Stafford Copy Share Image
“Composer, sculptor, painter, poet, prophet, sage, these are the makers of the after-world, the architects of heaven. The world is beautiful because… — James Allen Copy Share Image
I'm not saying the 1970s was a golden age - I don't believe such a thing exists in art . . .… — Maurizio Cattelan Copy Share Image
