Art Quote by Lisa Frank

“Yes, but the artist?" said Nigel almost fiercely. "He's different, you know he is. He's driven by some compulsion: if he can't do what…

— Mary Stewart

“Duchamp thought it was for artists to decide what was and what was not a work of art. His position was that if an…

— Will Gompertz

“Typical artist,' said Granny. 'He just painted the showy stuff in the front... And what about these cherubs? We're not going to get them…

— Terry Pratchett

When I was setting out to be an artist, I said: If I can just produce one work that some people think is good,…

— Jim Woodring

So that’s what art is, for the artist,” said Crake. “An empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid.

— Margaret Atwood

Compared with now when almost everyone knows what graphic design is and has some sort of access to the tools to make it, back…

— Michael Bierut

People think you can get out your canvas and paint any time you have a free moment. You can't. Commercial art and painting are…

— Pierre Alechinsky

We like to think of industrialization as being despicable. I don't really know what to make of it. There’s something terribly brittle about it.…

— Roy Lichtenstein

I'm interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think it's the tension between what seems to be…

— Roy Lichtenstein

There's nothing wrong with commercial art. There's nothing wrong with consumer society. There's nothing wrong with advertising. There's nothing wrong with shopping and spending…

— Chloe Wise

People want to make a distinction between what's commercial and what's art.

— Kathleen Kennedy

We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism -…

— Andy Warhol