CHAPTER II—FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES

One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning.

— Marcel Duchamp

True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your…

— Aaron Rose

“People in coats and ties were milling around the Talley gallery, and on the wall were the minimally rendered still lifes by Giorgio Morandi,…

— Steve Martin

The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does…

— Margaret Mead

“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists…

— Justina Chen Headley

“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it…

— Taf Teh

From as long as I can remember, I was always fond of drawing.

— St. Lucia

I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And…

— G-Dragon

The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy.

— Pablo Picasso

Designers shouldn’t design for museums any more than mummies should die for them.

— Ralph Caplan

I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?

— Alan Arkin

I am not the avant-garde. I am the artist who comes after the advancing guard. I am more concerned with continuity of ideas and…

— Nathan Oliveira

I am a horrible visual artist. I can't fix a car, sew, knit, cook, etc. Statistically, there is more I don't do than do.

— Carrie Brownstein