A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight…

I get approached to do a lot of commissioned art. Sometimes I do it, but I usually don't, given the day job and everything…

— Tim Fish

Failures in art usually lead to something else interesting.

— Will Cotton

My father used to say, 'If you want to know the artist, look at the art'. He was usually talking about Stanley Matthews or…

— David Peace

“philosophy of art usually lacks one of two things: either the philosophy or the art”

— Friedrich Schlegel

In art one is usually totally alone with oneself.

— Paula Modersohn-Becker

A really good picture looks as if it's happened at once. It's an immediate image. For my own work, when a picture looks labored…

— Helen Frankenthaler

Art usually only makes the news in America when the subject is money.

— Jerry Saltz

“Have you ever considered, bridgeman, that bad art does more for the world than good art? Artists spend more of their lives making bad…

— Brandon Sanderson

“The thing about being an artist," Dad said, folding his newspaper and setting it down on the table, "is that there are always going…

— Leila Sales

“Life may imitate art – but it usually falls short of it.”

— Anthony Horowitz

The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and…

— Marcel Duchamp

Producing Bob Dylan was pretty much a spectator sport.

— Al Kooper

The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.

— Bernard Berenson

My thinking was that today's spectator is so well-versed in film language that all theories about suspense, as argued by Dreyer and Hitchcock, on…

— Bruno Dumont

There cannot be any communication except through form. If there is no form, you cannot create emotion in the spectator.

— Alain Resnais