“I’m going to paint too. I’m going to paint pictures of ghosts and devils and horses out of hell.” — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
Art, because it's so easy to do, and yet so difficult to do well, encourages humility in the human soul. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
“Millions of people can draw. Art is whether there is a scream in you wanting to get out in a special way.” — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better? — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
Art in its highest form is art that serves and instructs society and human development. — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
Don't go overboard with exotic or complex ways to paint. Stick to simple solutions, unless there is a good reason to do… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts. — Jose Bergamin Copy Share Image
I just try and get the best out of an artist - we all have a responsibility to fill the world with… — Matt Squire Copy Share Image
When the Artist rises high enough to achieve the Beautiful, the symbol by which he makes it perceptible to mortal senses becomes… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I've always considered myself a graphic artists - a draftsman - as opposed to a typist. I do still work on a… — Michael Schwab Copy Share Image
You take a painting, you have a white, virginal piece of canvas that is the world of purity, and then you put… — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Copy Share Image
Whenever I got a new studio I made the largest possible painting, and since the ceiling was low, the painting became horizontal.… — James Rosenquist Copy Share Image
Art, at least, teaches us that man cannot be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I realized that most people waste their lives earning a living, and I wanted to live. I love painting, so I keep… — Pierre Soulages Copy Share Image
Some things I won't do for any amount of money. That's so demoralizing and goes against every principle that I hold. It's… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
My best efforts were some modern things that looked like very lousy Matisses. Thank God I had the sense to realize they… — Norman Rockwell Copy Share Image
