Art Quotes - random
Art is not a mirror to hold up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it.
My father was a proctologist; my mother was an abstract artist. That's how I view the world.
All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too.
An art that heals and protects its subject is a geography of scars.
Art is not a mirror to hold up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it.
No longer would we imprison thee though thou art all gentleness and would chat and jest with us by the hour.
The artist who becomes thoroughly aware consequently ceases to be one.
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
It takes only one man to make an artist, but forty to make an Academician.
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
Bless advertising art for its pictorial vitality and verbal creativity.
Color will play no part in the art of future.
I listen to his records and go to his concerts. That's the greatest compliment I can pay an artist.
Both of them were artists with highly developed personas, and hence unreliable witnesses to their own pasts.
If all you boast of your great art be true;
Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
Passivity, like the passivity of India induced by religion, is destructive both to human life and to art.
The artists is responsible for his history and his nature, his history is part of his nature.
Only the poor can create art.
Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere;
Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh, hear!