Every great artist has the sense of provocation. – Arthur Cravan
Every great artist has the sense of provocation. – Arthur Cravan
Art is what gets us beyond what is real. It makes reality more real. It also shortens the distance we gotta travel to see how connected we are. – Laura Pritchett
Art is what gets us beyond what is real. It makes reality more real. It also shortens the distance we gotta travel to see how connected we are. – Laura Pritchett
For me, painting is a way to forget life. It’s a cry in the night, a strangled laugh. – Georges Henri Rouault
For me, painting is a way to forget life. It’s a cry in the night, a strangled laugh. – Georges Henri Rouault
Creativity thrives where its roots are crowded. – Ozzie Zehner
Creativity thrives where its roots are crowded. – Ozzie Zehner
I think imagination is at the heart of everything we do. Scientific discoveries couldn’t have happened without imagination. Art, music, and literature couldn’t exist without imagination. And so anything that strengthens imagination, and reading certainly does that, can help us for the rest of our lives. – Lloyd Alexander
I think imagination is at the heart of everything we do. Scientific discoveries couldn’t have happened without imagination. Art, music, and literature couldn’t exist without imagination. And so anything that strengthens imagination, and reading certainly does that, can help us for the rest of our lives. – Lloyd Alexander
Do you write novels?” I said. “Novels, Lord no,” she said. “I can’t even stay married. – Pam Houston
Do you write novels?” I said.
“Novels, Lord no,” she said. “I can’t even stay married. – Pam Houston
What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine. – Oscar Wilde
What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine. – Oscar Wilde
Proportion is the heart of beauty. – Ken Follett
Proportion is the heart of beauty. – Ken Follett
I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste. – Marcel Duchamp
I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste. – Marcel Duchamp
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious. – Jean Cocteau
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious. – Jean Cocteau
This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art. – Salvador Dalí
This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art. – Salvador Dalí
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
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