Art Quote by Sharon Stone

The whole of nature is an endless demonstration of shape and form. It always surprises me when artists try to escape from this.

— Henry Moore

The stripping away of illusion and the struggle to find personal reality can be likened to the peeling of an apple. As one peels…

— Meredith L. Young-Sowers

Art is an escape from reality.

— Henri Matisse

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

We don’t create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay. I believe we have always done this,…

— Lynda Barry

Whether a photo or music, or a drawing or anything else I might do—it’s ultimately all an abstraction of my peculiar experience.

— William Eggleston

The one thing about reality is sometimes it gives you material that is wilder than some of your wildest imagination could come up with.

— Doug Liman

I get drawn in when I feel there is something deep and mysterious going on beneath the surface of something.

— Steven Pinker

It frequently happens that I begin a novel with just a visual image of something, a vague sense of people in three dimensional space.

— Don DeLillo

I remember the special quiet of rainy days when I felt that I could enter the pages of my beautiful picture books. Now I…

— Jan Brett

What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary.…

— Margaret Atwood

I began to realize that by carefully selecting the depth of field and making it narrow, I could create a sense of movement and…

— David Levinthal