Art Quote by Dana Schutz

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

A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place for things to, literally,…

— Bill Viola

In my eyes, making art is very often about something that you don't know.

— Lawrence Weiner

Creating art alone doesn't seem to fill us up, in my opinion, until we begin to truly communicate with it.

— Gary Holland

The brain is full of lonely ideas, begging you to make some sense of them, to recognize them as interesting. The lazy brain just…

— Theodore Zeldin

This is the theory… that anything that is art… is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and it’s…

— Edward Gorey

Ideas in art may be quite evident, and sometimes they're hidden. Sometimes they're simple, and sometimes they're quite complex. Great works of art can…

— Philip Taaffe

I think making art is something where you think you know, you also know you don't know and you hope - all these things…

— Eric Fischl

The main thing in making art often is letting go of your expectation and your idea.

— Agnes Martin

I have found, and most artists are probably this way, that [when] you're working on some kind of idea, the idea makes demands.

— Michelle Stuart

I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the…

— Ai Weiwei