The loner who looks fabulous is one of the most vulnerable loners of all. – Anneli Rufus

The compelling thing about making art—or making anything, I suppose—is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a thing, a substance in a world of substances. Circe, Nimbue, Artemis, Athena, all the old sorceresses: they must have known the feeling as they transformed mere men into fabulous creatures, stole the secrets of the magicians, disposed armies: ah, look, there it is, the new thing. Call it a swine, a war, a laurel tree. Call it art. – Audrey Niffenegger

The compelling thing about making art—or making anything, I suppose—is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a thing, a substance in a world of substances. Circe, Nimbue, Artemis, Athena, all the old sorceresses: they must have known the feeling as they transformed mere men into fabulous creatures, stole the secrets of the magicians, disposed armies: ah, look, there it is, the new thing. Call it a swine, a war, a laurel tree. Call it art. – Audrey Niffenegger

The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine – Karl Lagerfeld

I think comedy as an art involves the audience as a participant as much as is involves the artist. – Craig Ferguson

Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don’t come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they’re having a piss. – Banksy

Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don’t come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they’re having a piss. – Banksy

I make art for one person and one person only. And as soon as I find that one person, I sure hope he has a lot of wall space, because he’ll be getting a lot of art from me. – Jarod Kintz

Art is what you can get away with. – Andy Warhol

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. – Oscar Wilde

Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it. – Pope John Paul II

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world. – Edmond de Goncourt

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. – George Bernard Shaw

Art is the proper task of life. – Friedrich Nietzsche