A common defect of modern art study is that too many students do not know why they draw. – Robert Henri
A common defect of modern art study is that too many students do not know why they draw. – Robert Henri
To all appearances, the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing. – Marcel Duchamp
To all appearances, the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing. – Marcel Duchamp
If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art. – Arnold Schoenberg
If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art. – Arnold Schoenberg
It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us. – Henri Cartier-Bresson
It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us. – Henri Cartier-Bresson
Whatever the source of emotion that drives me to create, I want to give it a form which has some connection with the visible world, even if it is only to wage war on that world….I want my paintings to be able to defend themselves to resist the invader, just as though there were razor blades on all surfaces so no one could touch them without cutting his hands. – Pablo Picasso
Whatever the source of emotion that drives me to create, I want to give it a form which has some connection with the visible world, even if it is only to wage war on that world….I want my paintings to be able to defend themselves to resist the invader, just as though there were razor blades on all surfaces so no one could touch them without cutting his hands. – Pablo Picasso
Provided we can escape from the museums we carry around inside us, provided we can stop selling ourselves tickets to the galleries in our own skulls, we can begin to contemplate an art which re-creates the goal of the sorcerer: changing the structure of reality by the manipulation of living symbols … Art tells gorgeous lies that come true. – Hakim Bey
Provided we can escape from the museums we carry around inside us, provided we can stop selling ourselves tickets to the galleries in our own skulls, we can begin to contemplate an art which re-creates the goal of the sorcerer: changing the structure of reality by the manipulation of living symbols … Art tells gorgeous lies that come true. – Hakim Bey
You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there. – Maria Callas
You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there. – Maria Callas
…sometimes we enter art to hide within it. It is where we can go to save ourselves, where a third-person voice protects us. – Michael Ondaatje
…sometimes we enter art to hide within it. It is where we can go to save ourselves, where a third-person voice protects us. – Michael Ondaatje
It’s freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm?” “Indignation,” said Michelangelo. “Best fuel I know. Never burns out. – Irving Stone
It’s freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm?”
“Indignation,” said Michelangelo. “Best fuel I know. Never burns out. – Irving Stone
The aim of language…is to communicate…to impart to others the results one has obtained…As I talk, I reveal the situation…I reveal it to myself and to others in order to change it. – Jean-Paul Sartre
The aim of language…is to communicate…to impart to others the results one has obtained…As I talk, I reveal the situation…I reveal it to myself and to others in order to change it. – Jean-Paul Sartre
The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic. – G.K. Chesterton
The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic. – G.K. Chesterton
The White House usually followed the seagull theory of management: fly in, squawk and flap and shit, and fly away. – John Frohnmayer
The White House usually followed the seagull theory of management: fly in, squawk and flap and shit, and fly away. – John Frohnmayer