Art Quote by Jimmy Carl Black

I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes,…

— Tatyana Tolstaya

When you have an idea for a work and when you've finished your model for it, for the artist it's almost complete, in a…

— Jeff Koons

I never think about themes. I let the music create itself. I like it to be a potpourri of all kinds of sounds, all…

— Michael Jackson

Sculpture is an art of the open air. Daylight, sunlight, is necessary to it, and for me, its best setting and complement is nature.

— Henry Moore

In Comme des Garçons, I hardly do any sketches; there's no fittings on bodies, there's no models that come in and say, "Oh, a…

— Rei Kawakubo

I think for a lot of artists, if you're lucky enough to have a kind of career, especially toward the end, you start to…

— Frank Stella

Every work of art needs a spine – an underlying theme, a motive for coming into existence. It doesn't have to be apparent to…

— Twyla Tharp

People who aren't artists often feel that artists are inspired. But if you work at your art you don't have time to be inspired.

— John Cage

You can't make a sculpture until you've got a lump of rock.

— Eran Creevy

Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk.

— Billy Idol

What the work of art looks like isn't too important. It has to look like something if it has a physical form. No matter…

— Sol LeWitt

When I have a creative block, I take walks. I like to see what shapes stick out - so many legs rushing by at…

— Caio Fonseca