An artist must be open to both appreciation and criticism. It's a part of the learning process, or else there is no… — Shankar Mahadevan Copy Share Image
This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting — Fernand Leger Copy Share Image
Each man of us is living his own personal work of art, and cannot evade artistic responsibility for his product. — Richard McKenna Copy Share Image
An opened mind will eventually lead to a more well rounded artist and this will thus heightenen his or her level of… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“When I look at you I want to be a painter because to see such a beauty and not being able to… — Galib Mammadov Copy Share Image
Art sometimes is as simple as nothing, and other times as mysterious as nature or a woman. — Jeet Aulakh Copy Share Image
Charity creates a multitude of sins. Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I once had a drinking contest with an artist on his yacht... It amused him as I took shot after shot, and… — Megan Rich Copy Share Image
Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art. I buy art that I… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
“Judged by all practical standards, the value of my mathematical life is nil; and outside mathematics it is trivial anyhow. I have… — G.H. Hardy Copy Share Image
As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this… — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
“We weren’t idealistic about much, we children of the 1950s, but we were certainly idealistic about art. We went into it with… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Art is a creative effort of which the wellsprings lie in the spirit, and which brings us at once the most intimate… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
Every now and again, a painting will get away from my control and take over. Sometimes it's a good thing. Sometimes it's… — Ursula Vernon Copy Share Image
