Art Quote by Jeffrey Smart

As a sick kid, I always looked out the window. The objects of my observation were the sun, the seasons, the wind, crazy people,…

— Kim Hyesoon

In my most psychotic stages, I imagine myself chewing on sidewalks and bulging and swallowing sunlight and clouds.

— Andy Behrman

Of course I constantly despair at my own incapacity, at the impossibility of ever accomplishing anything, of painting a valid, true picture or even…

— Gerhard Richter

I am learning to look at myself differently, to see the scattered remnants of hope and dreams and collect them again.

— Jimmy Santiago Baca

I'm not sure what I am. I just know there's something dark in me. I hide it. I certainly don't talk about it, but…

— Joey Reel

Perhaps the Doors, Curtains, Surface Pictures, Panes of Glass, etc. are metaphors of despair, prompted by the dilemma that our sense of sight causes…

— Gerhard Richter

When I see nature, when I look into the sky, the dawn, the sun, the colors of insects, snow crystals, the night stars, I…

— Michelangelo Antonioni

There is a wind blowing in my heart, and with my eyes I cannot see my way out of the dark. I am a…

— SayWeCanFly

I pray and wait for an answer in pictures, words or ideas.

— Akiane Kramarik

“What I'm feeling, I think, is joy. And it's been some time since I've felt that blinkered rush of happiness, This might be one…

— Craig Silvey

First up high on a roof top, Like a bird I'm havin' evil thoughts, A black hood covers my face, And death flows through…

— Eazy-E

Often, very often, I am alone. My studio in Amsterdam, (Beckmann lived in the center of Amsterdam during World War 2.) an enormous old…

— Max Beckmann