I have a good ear for music, just like Van Gogh had a good ear for art. – Jarod Kintz

All art is abstract, because art is an abstraction of the truth. – Milford Zornes

Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic. – Oscar Wilde

Art and life are subjective. Not everybody’s gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it. – Whoopi Goldberg

It’s a pity one can’t imagine what one can’t compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow. – Vladimir Nabokov

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don’t paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality. – Frida Kahlo

People in coats and ties were milling around the Talley gallery, and on the wall were the minimally rendered still lifes by Giorgio Morandi, most of them no bigger than a tea tray. Their thin browns, ashy grays, and muted blues made people speak softly to one another, as if a shouted word might curdle one of the paintings and ruin it. Bottles, carafes, and ceramic whatnots sat in his paintings like small animals huddling for warmth, and these shy pictures could easily hang next to a Picasso or Matisse without feeling inferior. – Steve Martin

People in coats and ties were milling around the Talley gallery, and on the wall were the minimally rendered still lifes by Giorgio Morandi, most of them no bigger than a tea tray. Their thin browns, ashy grays, and muted blues made people speak softly to one another, as if a shouted word might curdle one of the paintings and ruin it. Bottles, carafes, and ceramic whatnots sat in his paintings like small animals huddling for warmth, and these shy pictures could easily hang next to a Picasso or Matisse without feeling inferior. – Steve Martin

Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can. – Danny Kaye

You don’t have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day. – Viggo Mortensen

The more you love,the more love you have to give.It’s the only feeling we have which is infinite… – Christina Westover

Art is not a thing; it is a way. – Elbert Hubbard