14,373 Quotes About Art

The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.

I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.

Only by examining our personal biases can we grow as artists; only by cultivating empathy can we grow as people.

We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

This is the time for every artist in every genre to do what he or she does loudly and consistently. It doesn't matter to me what your position is. You've got to keep asserting the complexity and the originality of life, and the multiplicity of it, and the facets of it. This is about being a complex human being in the world, not about finding a villain. This is no time for anything else than the best that you've got.