- “I pastiche, I quote, I lie. Fake, forge, forage, fabricate, copy, borrow, transform, steal. I illusion. I’m a genuine deceiver, a shy sham artist.” ― Shawna Lemay
- “I create beautiful art, so I can look back on the life my body fell short of in such a way that it brings me peace.” ― Nikki Rowe
- “When I was giving birth to my son, I had a veritable entourage of attendees, including,but not limited to, my mother and sister. I brought two art cards of my mother’s workwith me to give myself something to focus on during labour. I expected to use “SisterMoon” more than “Winter’s Cup” because to me it is my mother as a young woman. Itis probably my favourite piece of hers and I wanted her with me on many levels for thegrand event. However, to my surprise, it was the image of myself that I clung to. Theone of me conveying utter determination and strength, clothed in old finery, raising achalice above my head while I literally manifested and birthed good things fromwithin. It became, in those trying hours, a vital source of power for me. I see thepicture differently now. “Winter’s Cup” as my mother created it has found a life of itsown, far from the one she ever imagined. In the end, this is perhaps the greatestachievement of an artist, of a mother, that their work moves beyond them, becomingfor the viewer a source of truth and beauty with new stories to tell….” ― TobyAnne Stanley, Faye: The Art of Melissa Mary Duncan
- “I am an artist you know … it is my right to be odd.” ― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly,
- “For me, a hearty laugh is one of the most beautiful sounds in the world. It’s a way of life!” ― Oksana Rus
- “I am an artist, and a rebel one at that. I live in the voluptuous dimension of imagination, so if you’re expecting normalcy (dullness) from me, sorry to disappoint, but you’re quite mistaken. Ordinary is not my best attire, I’ve tried it and normal just never fit quite right. I will always be the crazy one who believes in magic, unicorns and impossible dreams. But also love, compassion and empathy.” ― Melody Lee, Moon Gypsy
- “If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.” ― Aaron Sorkin
- “Poetry isn’t one tool. It’s many tools.” ― G.L. Morrison
- “It will not always be easy, but it will always be beautiful.” ― Charlotte Eriksson
- “Magic is the stunning art of surprising your audience, so that nothing else surprises them.” ― Amit Kalantri
- “Like the usurpers in the Italian Renaissance, they seek to gloss over the illegitimacy of their rô1e by offering tangible advantages and making a fine show; that explains their economic liberalism and their patronage of the arts. They employ art not merely as a means to fame and a propaganda instrument but also as an opiate to soothe the opposition. The fact that their art policy is often accompanied by a true love and understanding of art does not affect its social basis. The courts of the Tyrants are the most important cultural centres of the age and its greatest repositories of artistic production […] Yet in spite of this activity at the courts, the art of the age of the Tyrants is not entirely a product of the court; the rationalistic and individualistic spirit of the age hindered the development of that solemn pageantry and those conventional forms which are characteristic of a court style. The only features in this art that we can ascribe to the court are its joy in the senses, its refined intellectuality, and its somewhat artificial elegance of expression—all features to be found in the older Ionian tradition but developed to a still higher degree at the courts of the Tyrants.” ― Arnold Hauser, The Social History of Art, Volume 1: From Prehistoric Times to the Middle Ages
- “..it has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don’t know the artistic side of a painting.” ― Vincent van Gogh
- “The secret to happiness is Art.” ― Efrat Cybulkiewicz
- “Find something, that when you are doing it you don’t feel you should be doing something else, and do that.” ― Robert Black
- “But will you not have a house to care for? Meals to cook? Children whining for this or that? Will you have time for the work?” “I’ll make time,” I promised. “The house will not always be so clean, the cooking may be a little hasty, and the whining children will sit on my lap and I’ll sing to them while I work.” ― Gloria Whelan
- “Je cherche le caractère dans chaque matière. Or le caractère de la céramique de gris est le sentiment du grand feu, et cette figure [sculpture] calcinée dans cet enfer, en exprime je crois assez fortement le caractère.I look for the character of each medium. The character of stoneware is that of a very hot fire, and this figure [sculpture] that has been scorched in the ovens of hell is I think a strong expression of this character.” ― Gauguin Paul
- “Because man was created in the image of a creator. Man was created that he might create. It is not a waste of mans time to be creative. It is not a waste to pursue artistic or scientific pursuits in creativity, because this is what man was made to be able to do. He was made in he image of a creator, and given the capacity to create.” ― Edith Schaeffer, The Hidden Art of Homemaking
- “There’s something about the art which makes me stare at it for quite the time, some people say that l am wasting time but if you ask me it’s a creative practice” ― Aryan Jain
- “Bad art teaches you as much as good art, maybe more.” ― Jerry Saltz, How to Be an Artist
- “As an artist I recognise that I have been brought up Pākehā, but am intrigued about addressing this mixing of culture in my life and society as a whole. I interpret this in different ways in my work, and have no answers.” ― Lisa Walker
- “The infinite branches of art are important ingredients of the human race, and the most faithful refuge of creativity where magic is released. Showing us another way of seeing the world, that everything is possible. It shows us alternative ways with our way of living. It is possible to live a life from art and music.” ― Efrat Cybulkiewicz
- “There is an art in everyone’s heart, you just need to be fearless and come one step ahead, to implement it and you will win” ― Anuj Jasani
- “Her body is one big refrigerator, where Art is well stored.” ― Elfriede Jelinek, The Piano Teacher
- “[I]t was [Barnett] Newman who made the famously wry remark, “Aesthetics is for the artist as ornithology is for the birds,” ― Ross Wetzsteon, Republic of Dreams: Greenwich Village: The American Bohemia 1910-1960
- “Artists strive to free this true and spontaneous self in their work. Creativity, meditation are ways of freeing an inner voice.” ― Gloria Steinem, Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem
- “Art is a basic human right.” ― Efrat Cybulkiewicz
- “[…] I’ve come to the conclusion that the artist can not justify life or come up with a cogent reason as to why life is meaningful, but the artist can provide you with a cold glass of water on a hot day.” ― Woody Allen
- “The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all.” ― Julia Cameron
- “The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.” ― Ezra Pound
- “You were born an original work of art. Stay original always. Originals cost more than imitations.” ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem