Art Quote by Wayne Thiebaud Download Open image “Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus.” — Wayne Thiebaud ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Art is Morning Olympus Paper Stolen
Art is not to be found by touring to Egypt, China, or Peru; if you cannot find it at your own door, you will… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Real art has been... what's the word? Kidnapped? No, that's not it. But, OK, kidnapped by business. — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
Art is not disposable. If you want it, you have to hold it and smell it and touch it and read the credits and… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
What really drives me mad about art is that, in America, the only thing you can do is to take it apart. — M.I.A Copy Share Image
The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved. — Robert Mapplethorpe Copy Share Image
I don't believe art is available; it's rare and curious and should be completely isolated; one is more aware of its magic the more… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
My subject matter was a genuine sort of experience that came out of my life, particularly the American world in which I was privileged… — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
Diebenkorn was a very good critic, a very tough critic, tough on himself, tough on others. He expected the finest. — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove. — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
We all need critical confrontation of the fullest and most extreme kind that we can get. You can unnecessarily limit yourself by choosing your… — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
When you think of painting as painting it is rather absurd. The real world is before us - glorious sunlight and activity and fresh… — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
Art is one of the dirtiest words in our language; it's mucked up with all kinds of meanings. There's the art of plumbing; there's… — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
Morandi gave an intimate view of his deepest thoughts. We watched him inquiring after the devilish questions of essences and substances. — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
I don't make a lot of distinctions between things like landscape or figure painting, because to me the problems are inherently the same -… — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
An artist has to train his responses more than other people do. He has to be as disciplined as a mathematician. Discipline is not… — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint. — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
A conscious decision to eliminate certain details and include selective bits of personal experiences or perceptual nuances, gives the painting more of a multi-dimension… — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
