Arms Quote by Patti Smith

Art was a last, desperate attempt for me to be able to exist in the world after trying very hard not to exist in…

— Kirsha Kaechele

I think that the whole experience of living, breathing, thinking, and being lost in wonderment is, for me, that of being an artist. And…

— Tony Shafrazi

Something in me was instinctively drawn to the life of a misunderstood, brilliant and wilful artist. I wanted to become one.

— John Lloyd Young

We can begin a discussion of artmaking by noting that from very early (as long ago as 200,000 years), humans have been naturally attracted…

— Ellen Dissanayake

My whole life was absorbed with my art. I was known by my schoolmates as the kid who could draw.

— Thomas Kinkade

I transformed myself in the zero of form and emerged from nothing to creation, that is, to Suprematism, to the new realism in painting…

— Kazimir Malevich

I think my life has been transformed by the ability to take things that exist in the world and look at them more closely.…

— Kehinde Wiley

My body became aligned with my identity, and it was profound.

— Vivienne Ming

My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.

— Yayoi Kusama

... my father loved to take photographs of me. When I was nine I made my own costumes for a school play and I…

— Mariko Mori

I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us…

— Oscar Wilde

There's no greater feeling than knowing that you helped in transforming someone and moving them through art. It's a beautiful thing.

— Jasmine Cephas Jones