14,373 Quotes About Art

A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.

I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.

The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

The beautiful is always bizarre.

Art is a space in which freedom tests its wings.