People want to be bowled over by something special. Nine times out of ten you might strike out, but that tenth time, that peak experience, is what people want. That’s what can move the world. That’s art. – Haruki Murakami
You gotta know when to be lazy. Done correctly, it’s an art form that benefits everyone. – Nicholas Sparks
I would rather fail as an artist than succeed as anything else. – Robert Dowling
I love you beyond paint, beyond melodies, beyond words. And I hope you will always feel that, even when I’m not around to tell you so. – Kiera Cass
Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt – Christian Boltanski
This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art. – Salvador Dalí
To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. – Edward Weston
The tools are real. The viewer is real, you, the artist, is real and a part of everything you paint. You connect yourself to the viewer by sharing something that is inside of you that connects with something inside of him. All you have as your guide is that you know what moves you. All you have to do it with is a brush, some chemical and canvas, and technique. – Steven Brust
Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power. – Paul Gauguin
Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of Hope and Memory, be with me for a while. – W.B. Yeats
Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament. – Émile Zola
