Art Quote by Joshua Reynolds

I don't like watching people work if they're making art.

— David Duchovny

This seclusion of the artist with his work, sometimes misconceived as a selfish thing, is in truth as needful a tool as any, if…

— Georgiana Burne-Jones

In art it's not the thinking that does the job, but making.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If somebody else wants to think it's artistic, well, that's fine. But to me, it's my job. I'm supposed to do it well. If…

— Ken Wahl

A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Artistic productivity is the capacity for being voluntarily involuntary.

— Theodor Adorno

It's a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you don't have…

— Julian Schnabel

If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing

— Glenn Gould

“When you find yourself working without inhibition, this is your creative voice beginning to be heard. Learn to recognize it. The moments when your…

— Sean Starr

It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.

— Robert Motherwell

Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.

— George MacDonald

Artists should be aware that petty stroking could be the source of arrested productivity. An artist's job includes the avoidance of premature closure by…

— Robert Genn