Acknowledge Quote by David Bayles

Uncertainty is the essential, inevitable and all-pervasive companion to your desire to make art

— David Bayles

“Art thrives in times of uncertainty.”

— Karen Thompson Walker

All good art, to me, is uncertainty.

— Dave Davies

An artist needs knowledge and the power of observation only so that he can tell from what he is abstaining, and to be sure…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

I want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same experience and the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what…

— Agnes Martin

I believe that every artist has his or her own vision of the world; our job as artists is to find and express that…

— Carole Katchen

The artist is a person who is expert in the training of perception.

— Marshall McLuhan

“Every dream, every vision is a masterpiece canvas on the wall of our minds. So as artists we should make an effort to bring…

— Euginia Herlihy

“The artist striving for truth or sincerity had to guard his spontaneous vision against distortion or alteration by aesthetic conventions or preconceptions.”

— Linda Nochlin

The greatness of art is not in the display of knowledge, or in material accuracy, but in the distinctness with which it conveys the…

— George Inness

An artist must only judge of what he understands, his field is just as limited as that of any other specialist... That in his…

— Anton Chekhov

Every artist is, first of all, a craftperson thoroughly knowledgeable about the materials, tools, and techniques of his or her particular medium and skilled…

— Freeman Patterson