14,373 Quotes About Art

I can certainly identify with The Villain. A Villain is someone who has a past, who is strongly opinionated, fearless, doesn't get intimated by anything, and went beyond suffering. It's an empowerment figure.

Dive again and again into the river of uncertainty. Create in the dark, only then can you recognize the light.

Observation is a dying art.

Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.

A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore!

No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead.

The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.

The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.

Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.