We can never be entirely original, as artists or as people. The genius and vision of those who came before us is too great for us to digress from entirely. Though, as creatures that are compelled to test and surpass our own creative abilities, we must always strive for that originality in everything we do in order to move the world forward. – Jessica Lave

The public wants work which flatters its illusions. – Gustave Flaubert

Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.- – Langston Hughes

The business of art lies just in this, — to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible. – Leo Tolstoy

I needed to take her to a concert, or maybe invite her out to go stencil street art in the middle of the night. Except I hadn’t done that since middle school. And I’m not exactly Banksy with a can of spray paint. – Jarod Kintz

I needed to take her to a concert, or maybe invite her out to go stencil street art in the middle of the night. Except I hadn’t done that since middle school. And I’m not exactly Banksy with a can of spray paint. – Jarod Kintz

I’d love to try to sell a blank white canvas to an art dealer. And when he asks what it is, I’d tell him, “It’s a landscape painting of Key West, from the perspective of an optimistic blind man. – Jarod Kintz

I’d love to try to sell a blank white canvas to an art dealer. And when he asks what it is, I’d tell him, “It’s a landscape painting of Key West, from the perspective of an optimistic blind man. – Jarod Kintz

You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, ‘This is art, and you can’t do it. – Steve Martin

I guess I’ve got to keep creating or I’ll just die. – Jarrod – "Eagle vs. Shark"

Tattooing, when understood in its entirety, must be seen as a religious act. The human being brings forth images from the center of the self and communicates them to the world. Fantasy is embodied in reality and the person is made whole. – Spider Webb

Tattooing, when understood in its entirety, must be seen as a religious act. The human being brings forth images from the center of the self and communicates them to the world. Fantasy is embodied in reality and the person is made whole. – Spider Webb

Art is everywhere you look for it, hail the twinkling stars for they are God’s careless splatters – El Greco

I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living. – Robert Henri

Whoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist. To make living itself an art, that is the goal. – Henry Miller

Whoever uses the spirit that is
in him creatively is an artist. To
make living itself an art, that is
the goal. – Henry Miller