14,373 Quotes About Art

Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art."(Last words, according to Dickens's obituary in The Times.)

More of me comes out when I improvise.

You have to know how to be vulgar. Paint with four-letter words.

The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.

There have been times I've felt so much art in my soul I grew sick of artists.

A tension develops between what I want and what is emerging. This tension is important to the feeling of the piece.

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

I want to be the best version of myself for anyone who is going to someday walk into my life and need someone to love them beyond reason.

The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.