Art Quote by Mark Lewisohn

“Unlike my father, who blindly churned out one canvas after another, I had real ideas about the artistic life. Seated at my desk, my…

— David Sedaris

“Behind every work of art lies an uncommitted crime”

— Theodor Adorno

“After the dazzling orgies in form and color of the eighteenth century, art was put on a diet, and allowed nothing but the straight…

— Victor Hugo

“Art altogether is nothing but a survival skill, we should never lose sight of this fact, it is, time and again, just an attempt…

— Thomas Bernhard

“The customs people were angered by my drawings. I told them I didn’t make the drawings to cause trouble; I was an artist, and…

— Chaim Potok

Basically, at this time, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste and saw the individual making this imposition…

— Henry Flynt

Making art is an act of courage. Do you know who said that?

— Steve Guttenberg

I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.

— Bil Keane

“After that, he said, his father, who had always been neutral about his art, forbade him from taking classes. Even his mother, who had…

— Brené Brown

I think it was Henry Moore who was asked where he got his ideas for his sculptures, and he said something like, "I continue…

— Carl Andre

“I suppose that really I had a training or education not so very different from a lot of other artists and illustrators — it’s…

— Quentin Blake

“In 1913, trying desperately to liberate art from the ballast of the representational world, I sought refuge in the form of the square.”

— Kasimir Malevich