The artist is a collector of things imaginary or real. He accumulates things with the same enthusiasm that a little boy stuffs his pockets. The scrap heap and the museum are embraced with equal curiosity. He takes snapshots, makes notes and records impressions on tablecloths or newspapers, on backs of envelopes or matchbooks. Why one thing and not another is part of the mystery, but he is omnivorous. – Paul Rand

We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause. – Steven Pressfield

Love art in yourself, and not yourself in art. – Konstantin Stanislavski

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten. – Marie Antoinette

Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure. – George Eliot

Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn’t give you what you desire – it tells you how to desire. – Slavoj Žižek

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. – W. Somerset Maugham

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul? – John Keats

Art is either a complaint or appeasement. – Jasper Johns

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. – Frank Lloyd Wright

Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ‘creative observation.’ Creative viewing. – William S. Burroughs

Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ‘creative observation.’ Creative viewing. – William S. Burroughs

I know great art when someone doesn’t wash their hands after making it. And not only did Duchamp not wash his hands, but he didn’t even flush! – Jarod Kintz