Drawing is the most inalienable medium. It is private; it…

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Dancing is surely the most basic and relevant of all forms of expression. Nothing else can so effectively give outward form to an inner…

— Lyall Watson

Art matters. It is not simply a leisure activity for the privileged or a hobby for the eccentric. It is a practical good for…

— Michael Gungor

The sincerity of delivery is what always strikes me when I hear a good band. It's artist-expression driven, as opposed to being record-producer driven.…

— Danny Carey

It is the poet and philosopher who provide the community of objectives in which the artist participates. Their chief preoccupation, like the artist, is…

— Mark Rothko

An artist must find his expression closely linked to his individual experience or else follow in the old grooves resulting in lifeless forms.

— Mark Tobey

Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.

— Alison Bechdel

Sometimes the things I learn making paintings or drawings - composition, colour, expressionism, texture - can directly influence the making of a film. Sometimes…

— Dave McKean

Drawing is the simplest way of establishing a picture vocabulary because it is an instant, personal declaration of what is important and what is…

— Betty Goodwin

It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.

— Ansel Adams

In the interests of everyone the artist had a responsibility to use his medium well. In the Tibetan culture, most of the paintings are…

— Dalai Lama

I know the importance of highly trained awareness of the “moment” and the immediate and intuitive response of the photographer. It should be obvious…

— Ansel Adams

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not…

— John Steinbeck

The happy medium is television. And if you find a good suitor, you can do it for years. With movies, you roll the dice.…

— Bruce Campbell

I always believed that photography was subjective, interpretive and certainly did not represent the truth, but I did think that its status as a…

— Fred Ritchin