The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. – Marcel Duchamp
Man, didn’t anybody ever tell you that art is propaganda? It doesn’t matter whether you think it should be or it shouldn’t be, it just is, and motherfucker, like or not, you’re sitting on a funky Magna Carta. – Paul Beatty
Art is a space in which freedom tests its wings. – Marty Rubin
Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite — getting something down. – Julia Cameron
There must always be two kinds of art: escape-art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sleep, and parable-art, that art which shall teach man to unlearn hatred and learn love. – W.H. Auden
The Artist always has the masters in his eyes. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
كنت كلما رأيتها في لباسها الفلسطيني المليء بالمزركشات والموتيفات الحية والنوار، اعترتني رغبة في أخذ الفرشاة بجنون وتغميسها في لباسها ورسم أشكال مجنونة من ألوان فستانها – واسيني الأعرج
If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials and beginning work with them will act suggestively and so presently evoke a flight into the higher state. – Robert Henri
The writer’s curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored. – Criss Jami
When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss Art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss Money – Oscar Wilde
The greatest art belongs to the world. Do not be intimidated by the experts. Trust your instincts. Do not be afraid to go against what you were taught, or what you were told to see or believe. Every person, every set of eyes, has the right to the truth. – Blue Balliett
The preparation of good food is merely another expression of art, one of the joys of civilized living… – Dione Lucas
