14,373 Quotes About Art

Love art in yourself, and not yourself in art.

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, and he'll tell you the story of each small one. From the big ones you get novels. A little talent is a nice thing to have if you want to be a writer, but the only real requirement is the ability to remember the story of every scar.Art consists of the persistence of memory.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize."[Modernism's Patriarch (Time Magazine, June 10, 1996)]

I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all.

I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.

The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.