Art Quote by Tracey Emin

I've worked really hard. I've made three pieces of seminal art in my life. If I died tomorrow, I'd be remembered for making them.…

— Tracey Emin

I did large drawings of couples having sex! Men and woman enjoying intercourse and oral sex in a Madison Avenue Gallery? That was the…

— Betty Dodson

I think of making love and making art as being very parallel. Even the most amateur attempt can be thrilling.

— Julia Cameron

“What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudo-intellectual masturbation . . . whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

We all have fertile creative periods and times when we can't figure out how we ever did it.

— Cynthia Weil

Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

— John Donne

I think masturbating is a really important function in art. People don't like to hear that kind of stuff, but it's true.

— Patti Smith

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better.

— John Updike

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.

— John Updike

When Picasso paints as a cubist, putting one tone next to another, the arrangement of planes is fine and the results very storng. But…

— Aristide Maillol

My words, my writing, my actions—these have never been for myself alone, either directly or indirectly. There is no such thing as an artist…

— Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Found objects, chance creations, ready-mades (mass-produced items promoted into art objects, such as Duchamp's "Fountain"-urinal as sculpture) abolish the separation between art and life.…

— Charles Simic