I think that limitations are the most important part of any art form — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
I'm not performing miracles, I'm using up and wasting a lot of paint... — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material. — Vince Vaughn Copy Share Image
Even luxuries are arranged according to ideas and ideals, to make them reflect as much of thought-life as possible - and this… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex. — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
Making art is like giving a gift: evidence of your spirit and that you are here. — Paddy Mitchell Copy Share Image
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I have a sense of mission in a way. I've always worked on being free, as a woman and as an artist. — Yasmine Hamdan Copy Share Image
Using painting as a metaphor for consciousness is what I'm interested in. — Nigel Cooke 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
“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
“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
I enjoyed learning something and, uh, so I think like with anything in life, in the schoolroom in an artistic endeavor, if… — Amy Ryan 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
Aerial perspective has nothing to do with line, but concerns tones and colours, by the delicate manipulation of which an artist can… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“It is ten per cent how you draw, and ninety per cent what you draw.” — Andrew Loomis Copy Share Image
“When Louise worried bout something, it often turned up in her art.” — Jan Greenberg Copy Share Image
The process of art-making is full of happy accidents - what fun! — Max Elliott Slade Copy Share Image
