Love ... is the honoring of others in a way that grants…

While the world of reality has its limits, the world of your imagination is without boundaries

— Wayne Dyer

Above all, artists must not be only in art galleries or museums - they must be present in all possible activities. The artist must…

— Michelangelo Pistoletto

In a sense, every work you do is a self-portrait because your paintings always reveal more about you than about your subject. Your experience…

— Richard Schmid

I’m actually trying to make sense of the world. There’s nothing cynical or absurd in what I do.

— Yue Minjun

If nobody recognizes you, if nobody cares, it's easier to avoid getting carried away. That's way harder if you're a famous artist.

— Max Martin

You cut a hole in the building and people can look inside and see the way other people really lived.. it's making space without…

— Gordon Matta-Clark

I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.

— Francis Bacon

Maybe to try to understand not just that we are living in a certain building or in a certain location, but to become aware…

— Andreas Gursky

Anything can be art. Art is the relations between relations, not the relations between objects.

— Joseph Kosuth

There's a myth among amateurs, optimists and fools that beyond a certain level of achievement, famous artists retire to some kind of Elysium where…

— Mark Matousek

Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.

— Marc Chagall

Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.

— Ai Weiwei

The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.

— Banksy

Art is all about doing what you shouldn't.

— Nobuyoshi Araki

The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I'm one of the best painters.

— Georgia O'Keeffe