14,373 Quotes About Art

If there’s a thing, a scene, maybe, an image that you want to see real bad, that you need to see but it doesn’t exist in the world around you, at least not in the form that you envision, then you create it so that you can look at it and have it around, or show it to other people who wouldn’t have imagined it because they perceive reality in a more narrow, predictable way. And that’s it. That’s all an artist does.

I put together artwork like tiny pieces of a puzzle, with hopes of one day seeing the whole complete picture and therefore understanding myself more.

Art is nothing more than creating an emotion in your own form.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

I thought clay must feel happy in the good potter's hand.

The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know - for comedians are the caricatures among us.

I've never been somewhere I belonged, but there are places where I think I could be happy. Like San Francisco. Well, do art museums count? Because I feel like I belong in them.

Think not of the fragility of life, but of the power of books, when mere words can change our lives simply by being next to each other.

Art begins . . . when someone interprets, when someone sees the world through his own eyes. Art happens when what is seen becomes mixed with the inside of the person who is seeing it.