“An artist can't let madness stop him from making art, he simply has to channel it.” — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
The main thing in making art often is letting go of your expectation and your idea. — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
If I set out to sculpt a standing man and it becomes a lying woman, I know I am making art. — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
I do not think making art alone makes it any better than making it with a team of people. — Olafur Eliasson Copy Share Image
Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when… — Anish Kapoor Copy Share Image
It's just way more fun making art, growing, grinding for a fan base, and traveling the world with a friend. — Macklemore Copy Share Image
“The bottom line is, painting, at its richest, is done best with no purpose whatsoever aside from pleasing the person making the… — Charles Sovek Copy Share Image
Making art was really about the problem of the soul, of losing it. It was a technique for inhabiting the world. For… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
The only thing that makes one an artist is making art. And that requires the precise opposite of hanging out; a deeply… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
Not everyone in Italy may know how to cook, but nearly everyone knows how to eat. Eating in Italy is one more… — Marcella Hazan Copy Share Image
There is no comparison between him and me; he developed a whole new way of making art and he's clearly in a… — Tracey Emin Copy Share Image
I gave up on the idea of making art a long time ago, because I wanted to know how to make paintings;… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
Making art, I try to just gently persist, instead of having freak-outs where I'm like, Oh, my god, I'll never draw again.… — Gary Panter Copy Share Image
For me, it's about making art that's not good but phenomenal. James Baldwin didn't want to just stay above the fray. Prince… — Lena Waithe Copy Share Image
When I began making art, I just thought I liked it. As a woman who was placed in spaces with various conditions,… — Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook Copy Share Image
“Making art can feel dangerous and revealing. Making art is dangerous and revealing. Making art precipitates self-doubt, stirring deep waters that lay… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
Making art now means working in the face of uncertainty; it means living with doubt and contradiction, doing something no one much… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you're young, and you're doing stuff, you're making music, directing, making art, it's all future directed. You want to change stuff… — Johan Renck Copy Share Image
I finished VCA at the height of the last big recession in the early 90s, and seeing that I was not going… — Patricia Piccinini Copy Share Image
Being an artist is two things. You accumulate experience and time, and if you have something that's interesting, you have to be… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
The group is enthusiastic about making art, but it's also a good excuse to get together with friends and to enjoy each… — Jussi Lehtisalo Copy Share Image
The only way to make a criticism of something is to really participate in it. I'm a completely capitalist person. I participate… — Chloe Wise Copy Share Image
“Looking at and 'appreciating' art has been understood as an instrument (or at best a result) of upward mobility, in which owning… — Lucy R. Lippard Copy Share Image
“...hanging out does not make one an artist. A secondhand wardrobe does not make one an artist. Neither do a hair-trigger temper,… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
Making art is nothing but risk, always. If it's not risk, it's no good. — Wayne White Copy Share Image
