Art Quote by Alyson Richman

Creating art is like being sick - you bring up all your innermost thoughts, and then you have to ask yourself why you're doing…

— Goldie

Everything about art has become problematic; its inner life, its relation to society, even its right to exist.

— Theodor Adorno

“The desire to make art begins early. Among the very young this is encouraged (or at least indulged as harmless) but the push toward…

— David Bayles

Ah, but art and trouble go hand in hand. If you cannot be troubled to create art from your heart, then your art will…

— Lisa Mangum

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don't want it.

— Duke Ellington

What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become.

— Bruce Nauman

“Making art can feel dangerous and revealing. Making art is dangerous and revealing. Making art precipitates self-doubt, stirring deep waters that lay between what…

— David Bayles

“My objective is to create my own world and these images which we create mean nothing more than the images which they are. We…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

“The art, the art of living, involves the act of creation. The work of art is nothing. It is only the tangible, visible evidence…

— Henry Miller

I do not know what evil is when it comes to art. I only know what is good art and what is bad art.

— Chaim Potok

Most works of art are, necessarily, bad...; one suffers through the many for the few.

— Randall Jarrell

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

— Pablo Picasso