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Quote |
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| Art | "Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." | Adams, Scott |
| Art | "There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept." | Adams, Ansel |
| Art | "There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs." | Adams, Ansel |
| Art | "The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways." | Adams, Ansel |
| Art | "Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs." | Adams, Ansel |
| Art | "You don't take a photograph, you make it." | Adams, Ansel |
| Art | "Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one." | Adler, Stella |
| Art | "Miss Hepburn's voice was lilting along as before: She is oblivious of her impact. Or inured to it. Or stuck with it." | Ager, Cecelia |
| Art | "A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know." | Arbus, Diane |
| Art | "The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance." | Aristotle, |
| Art | "What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish." | Auden, W. H. |
| Art | "My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph." | Avedon, Richard |
| Art | "Art is Man's nature. Nature is God's art." | Bailey, James |
| Art | "Acting is a matter of giving away secrets." | Barkin, Ellen |
| Art | "Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation." | Baudelaire, Charles |
| Art | "Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary." | Beaton, Sir Cecil |
| Art | "Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures." | Beecher, Henry Ward |
| Art | "Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art." | Bierce, Ambrose |
| Art | "Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic." | Bierce, Ambrose |
| Art | "Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words." | Billings, Josh |
| Art | "About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment." | Billings, Josh |
| Art | "Great dreams... never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, "How good or how bad am I?" That's where courage comes in." | Bombeck, Erma |
| Art | "I don't want to see pictures of Hollywood stars in their dressing gowns taking out the rubbish. It ruins the fantasy." | Brightman, Sarah |
| Art | "I have a love-hate relationship with performing." | Brightman, Sarah |
| Art | "You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside things get in the way." | Brightman, Sarah |
| Art | "The artist has one function-to affirm and glorify life." | Brown, W. Edward |
| Art | "I paint with shapes." | Calder, Alexander |
| Art | "I don't need the money, dear. I work for art." | Callas, Maria |
| Art | "A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say." | Calvino, Italo |
| Art | "All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door." | Camus, Albert |
| Art | "Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others." | Camus, Albert |
| Art | "Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art." | Capp, Al |
| Art | "The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure." | Carnegie, Dale |
| Art | "The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box." | Cartier-Bresson, Henri |
| Art | "Mine was the role of the oilcan in making the machinery clunk around." | Casson, Hugh |
| Art | "What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose." | Cather, Willa |
| Art | "When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art." | Cezanne, Paul |
| Art | "The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep." | Chagall, Marc |
| Art | "When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art." | Chagall, Marc |
| Art | "Great art picks up where nature ends." | Chagall, Marc |
| Art | "I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more." | Chagall, Marc |
| Art | "Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling." | Chesterton, Gilbert K. |
| Art | "Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame." | Chesterton, Gilbert K. |
| Art | "Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere." | Chesterton, Gilbert K. |
| Art | "Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea." | Ciardi, John |
| Art | "I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog." | Cisneros, Sandra |
| Art | "Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time." | Cocteau, Jean |
| Art | "In Chicago, we may not think the Picasso presiding over the Richard J. Daley Center plaza is art, but we know it's a big Picasso and it's the city's Picasso, and when the Cubs made the play-offs, the sculpture wore a baseball cap just like everything else." | Colander, Pat |
| Art | "The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above." | Connolly, Cyril |
| Art | "An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one." | Cooley, Charles Horton |
| Art | "One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide." | Cooley, Charles Horton |
| Art | "When one buys some of my artwork I hope it is because they will wish to learn from it and not because they think it will match their drapes!" | Corbet, Christian Cardell |
| Art | "That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen." | Craig, Edward Gordon |
| Art | "Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality." | Dali, Salvador |
| Art | "Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad." | Dali, Salvador |
| Art | "There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction." | Dali, Salvador |
| Art | "Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation." | Dali, Salvador |
| Art | "Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do." | Degas, Edgar |
| Art | "The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing." | Delacroix, Eugene |
| Art | "Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism." | Dietz, Howard |
| Art | "Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail." | Dreiser, Theodore |
| Art | "Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe." | Dunne, John Gregory |
| Art | "The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness." | Eastman, Max |
| Art | "True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist." | Einstein, Albert |
| Art | "So-called art restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel and sponge." | Eliot, Alexander |
| Art | "Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values." | Eliot, T. S. |
| Art | "Colors that blend with the brick and the dark waters of the city's canals - greens, browns and the strong shade of oxblood that is known as Bruges red." | Elliott, Vicky |
| Art | "Every artist writes his own autobiography." | Ellis, Henry Havelock |
| Art | "Pictures must not be too picturesque." | Emerson, Ralph Waldo |
| Art | "Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check." | Escher, M. C. |
| Art | "We adore chaos because we love to produce order." | Escher, M. C. |
| Art | "Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?" | Escher, M. C. |
| Art | "The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life." | Faulkner, William |
| Art | "Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid." | Feiffer, Jules |
| Art | "When you find yourself beginning to feel a bond between yourself and the people you photograph, when you laugh and cry with their laughter and tears, you will know you are on the right track." | Fellig, Arthur |
| Art | "All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography." | Fellini, Federico |
| Art | "Of all lies, art is the least untrue." | Flaubert, Gustave |
| Art | "To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way." | Forster, E. M. |
| Art | "Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake." | Forster, E. M. |
| Art | "The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public." | Gauguin, Paul |
| Art | "There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite." | Gauguin, Paul |
| Art | "Art is either plagiarism or revolution." | Gauguin, Paul |
| Art | "In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters." | Gauguin, Paul |
| Art | "Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed." | Gibran, Kahlil |
| Art | "Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better." | Gide, Andre |
| Art | "Art begins with resistance-at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor." | Gide, Andre |
| Art | "The studio, a room to which the artist consigns himself for life, is naturally important, not only as workplace, but as a source of inspiration. And it usually manages, one way or another, to turn up in his product." | Glueck, Grace |
| Art | "If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced." | Gogh, Vincent Van |
| Art | "A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world." | Goncourt, Edmond de |
| Art | "I cry out for order and find it only in art." | Hayes, Helen |
| Art | "The irrepressible spirit that made his playing seem like good conversation is the Rubinstein legacy for pianists, if they can pick up their heads from the keyboard long enough to claim it." | Henahan, Donal |
| Art | "Anything simple always interests me." | Hockney, David |
| Art | "The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist." | Hockney, David |
| Art | "The most profound things are inexpressible." | Holzer, Jenny |
| Art | "Art is... a question mark in the minds of those who want to know what's happening." | Howard, Aaron |
| Art | "Art is not a thing; it is a way." | Hubbard, Elbert |
| Art | "The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination." | Hubbard, Elbert |
| Art | "When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college - that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared at me, incredulous, and said, "You mean they forget?"" | Ikemoto, Howard |
| Art | "Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads." | Jong, Erica |
| Art | "Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul." | Kahn, Louis |
| Art | "The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract." | Key, Ellen |
| Art | "Actually, my artistic knowledge is so tiny it could fit into the brain of an art critic." | Kilian, Michael |
| Art | "Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier." | Laurencin, Marie |
| Art | "You can't start at the top." | Letterman, Elmer G. |
| Art | "I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy." | Levant, Oscar |
| Art | "Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember." | Levant, Oscar |
| Art | "Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath." | Levant, Oscar |
| Art | "Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness." | Lewis, Percy Wynham |
| Art | "I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me." | Lichtenstein, Roy |
| Art | "I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting." | Lichtenstein, Roy |
| Art | "The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress." | Loon, Hendrik Willem Van |
| Art | "Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in." | Lowell, Amy |
| Art | "Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout." | Maddocks, Melvin |
| Art | "I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul." | Mark, Mary Ellen |
| Art | "I have been no more than a medium, as it were." | Matisse, Henri |
| Art | "What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue." | Matisse, Henri |
| Art | "It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression." | Matisse, Henri |
| Art | "Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence." | Matisse, Henri |
| Art | "I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have the light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me." | Matisse, Henri |
| Art | "A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light." | Matisse, Henri |
| Art | "You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover." | Matisse, Henri |
| Art | "Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is." | Matisse, Henri |
| Art | "I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things." | Matisse, Henri |
| Art | "Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul." | Matisse, Henri |
| Art | "All autobiography is self-indulgent." | Maurier, Daphne du |
| Art | "For the mystic what is how. For the craftsman how is what. For the artist what and how are one." | McElcheran, William |
| Art | "Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century." | McLuhan, Marshall |
| Art | "A man paints with his brains and not with his hands." | Michelangelo, |
| Art | "The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection." | Michelangelo, |
| Art | "Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle." | Michelangelo, |
| Art | "I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes." | Midler, Bette |
| Art | "I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me." | Midler, Bette |
| Art | "The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist." | Mille, Henry |
| Art | "When artwork is involved, it's almost assumed that it's going to travel. It's too hot to stay here." | Miller, Gregory |
| Art | "The choirs left the main tune and soared two octaves past heaven in a descant to rattle the bones and surge the heart." | Mitchell, Henry |
| Art | "A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds." | Moore, Henry |
| Art | "A great artist is always before his time or behind it." | Moore, George |
| Art | "It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work." | Moore, Henry |
| Art | "The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude." | Nietzsche, Friedrich |
| Art | "If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it." | Nin, Anais |
| Art | "The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist." | Novalis, |
| Art | "I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for." | O'Keeffe, Georgia |
| Art | "It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it." | O'Keeffe, Georgia |
| Art | "I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum." | Oldenburg, Claes |
| Art | "Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game." | Paz, Octavio |
| Art | "You've gotta be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?" | Peters, Bernadette |
| Art | "Painting is just another way of keeping a diary." | Picasso, Pablo |
| Art | "My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope." Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso." | Picasso, Pablo |
| Art | "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up." | Picasso, Pablo |
| Art | "We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth." | Picasso, Pablo |
| Art | "The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls." | Picasso, Pablo |
| Art | "Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun." | Picasso, Pablo |
| Art | "The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web." | Picasso, Pablo |
| Art | "Give me a museum and I'll fill it." | Picasso, Pablo |
| Art | "Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks." | Plutarch, |
| Art | "Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature." | Proust, Marcel |
| Art | "While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt." | Redon, Odilon |
| Art | "Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art." | Reynolds, Wynetka Ann |
| Art | "Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top." | Rivers, Joan |
| Art | "I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need." | Rodin, Auguste |
| Art | "Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight." | Rodin, Auguste |
| Art | "I invent nothing, I rediscover." | Rodin, Auguste |
| Art | "The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it." | Rogers, Carl R. |
| Art | "A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous." | Rohe, Ludwig Mies van der |
| Art | "I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good." | Rohe, Ludwig Mies van der |
| Art | "For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh." | Rouault, Georges |
| Art | "Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together." | Ruskin, John |
| Art | "What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art." | Saint-Gaudens, Augustus |
| Art | "An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world." | Santayana, George |
| Art | "To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist." | Schumann, Robert |
| Art | "All art is but imitation of nature." | Seneca, Lucius Annaeus |
| Art | "Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable." | Shaw, George Bernard |
| Art | "Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made." | Shawn, Ted |
| Art | "I didn't have any interest in traditional art." | Sherman, Cindy |
| Art | "May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine." | Sinatra, Frank |
| Art | "Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression." | Singer, Isaac Bashevis |
| Art | "I don't invent characters because the Almightly has already invented millions. Just like experts at fingerprints do not create fingerprints but learn how to read them." | Singer, Isaac Bashevis |
| Art | "The artist should be a seeing-eye dog for a myopic civilization." | Smith, Jacob Getlar |
| Art | "If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes." | Spillane, Mickey |
| Art | "Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product." | Steichen, Edward |
| Art | "When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration." | Steichen, Edward |
| Art | "Photography is a major force in explaining man to man." | Steichen, Edward |
| Art | "You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum - a canvas - a piece of film - or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something - that vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you." | Steichen, Edward |
| Art | "Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man." | Steichen, Edward |
| Art | "A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears." | Stein, Gertrude |
| Art | "The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep." | Strand, Paul |
| Art | "I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.'" | Stravinsky, Igor |
| Art | "I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good." | Streisand, Barbra |
| Art | "Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others." | Swift, Jonathan |
| Art | "Art is the only way to run away without leaving home." | Tharp, Twyla |
| Art | "This is the river of the great 19th-century landscapists; of Cole, Cropsey and Church, and at the end of the summer it lies motionless under the haze as under a light coat of varnish." | Thurman, Judith |
| Art | "Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal." | Trilling, Lionel |
| Art | "All art requires courage." | Tucker, Anne |
| Art | "The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art." | Tynan, Kenneth |
| Art | "What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit." | Updike, John |
| Art | "The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all." | Updike, John |
| Art | "Why not say it? I'm bursting out of my cocoon. It was all too nice in the past - it never knocked anyone out. But last year... my first opening night at the Met - I looked out and heard all that cheering... for me... And I loved it." | Valente, Benita |
| Art | "An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it." | Valery, Paul |
| Art | "An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs." | Varese, Varese |
| Art | "For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are more satisfactory than others, but where is credit due? to the designer of the camera? To the finger on the button? tso the law of averages?" | Vidal, Gore |
| Art | "Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason." | Vinci, Leonardo da |
| Art | "I like boring things." | Warhol, Andy |
| Art | "Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes." | Warhol, Andy |
| Art | "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." | Warhol, Andy |
| Art | "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." | Warhol, Andy |
| Art | "I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning." | Warhol, Andy |
| Art | "An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them." | Warhol, Andy |
| Art | "Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches." | Warhol, Andy |
| Art | "I am a deeply superficial person." | Warhol, Andy |
| Art | "Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes." | White, E. B. |
| Art | "For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros." | Wilcox, Ella Wheeler |
| Art | "All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life." | Wilde, Oscar |
| Art | "A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament." | Wilde, Oscar |
| Art | "Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter." | Wilde, Oscar |
| Art | "No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist." | Wilde, Oscar |
| Art | "Portraits are supposed to "look within," but in my opinion very few people have an interior significantly different from the outside portrait." | Witcomb, Jon |
| Art | "Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart." | Wordsworth, William |
| Art | "Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them." | Wordsworth, William |
| Art | "A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines." | Wright, Frank Lloyd |
| Art | "Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed." | Wright, Frank Lloyd |
| Art | "The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work." | Zola, Emile |
