14,373 Quotes About Art

Art is solving problems that cannot be formulated before they have been solved. The shaping of the question is part of the answer.

When a good artist finds a perfect working environment, she wants to create a perfect work because her sensitive soul wants to pay her debt perfectly to that perfect place!

The term bohemian has a bad reputation because it's allied to myriad clichés, but Parisians originally adopted the term, associated with nomadic Gypsies, to describe artists and writers who stayed up all night and ignored the pressures of the industrial world.

The truest art I would strive for in any work would be to give the page the same qualities as earth: weather would land on it harshly; light would elucidate the most difficult truths; wind would sweep away obtuse padding.

One must give himself completely to his art and not hold back. Throw caution to the wind. Embrace the muse. Make love to your art.

It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all.

True freedom only exists in art.The problem is you have to be incredibly good.No,I am putting it wrong:You don't so much have to be outstanding,what you really need are connections,if you don't want to be dependent on all kinds of government foundations who will impose their ideas and restrictions on you in turn.It can be touch and go in the beginning:It takes guts to let go of everything.But you make it,you're free.

Doing fine, thank you, I would say, never knowing how to talk about what I do. If I could talk about it, I would not have to do it. I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my heart. Some of them. Not all.

A work of art is by no means the property of its creator.