Art Quote by Patti Smith

Creating art is like being sick - you bring up all your innermost thoughts, and then you have to ask yourself why you're doing…

— Goldie

Creating art alone doesn't seem to fill us up, in my opinion, until we begin to truly communicate with it.

— Gary Holland

A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place for things to, literally,…

— Bill Viola

Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.

— Conor Oberst

Art is not created in a vacuum. That experience is something to be shared with a group of people, and to be moved in…

— Walton Goggins

I think with art you have to do a bit of transforming of the subject to make the art worth having.

— Matthew Collings

Art is when we do work that matters in a creative way, in a way that touches (people) and changes them for the better.

— Seth Godin

Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.

— Jeff Koons

Art is a direct reflection of the life you live. What you experience comes out in your work.

— Dianne Reeves

I usually think of art as having a measurable content of nourishment, whether factual or emotional or whatever, and I try to make sure…

— Jeffrey Lewis

Art making comes from the human desire to share something that is universal in one sense, but unique to your sensibility in another. I…

— Shepard Fairey

“Making art depends upon noticing things — things about yourself, your methods, your subject matter. Sooner or later, for instance, every visual artist notices…

— David Bayles