Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can. – Danny Kaye

Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can. – Danny Kaye

How’s my mom? My mother’s well, like a painting—a Motherwell. – Jarod Kintz

How’s my mom? My mother’s well, like a painting—a Motherwell. – Jarod Kintz

Art and life are subjective. Not everybody’s gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it. – Whoopi Goldberg

Art and life are subjective. Not everybody’s gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it. – Whoopi Goldberg

Art is the reason I get up in the morning, but the definition ends there. It doesn’t seem fair that I’m living for something I can’t even define. – Ani DiFranco

Art is the reason I get up in the morning, but the definition ends there. It doesn’t seem fair that I’m living for something I can’t even define. – Ani DiFranco

Creativity is an act of defiance. – Twyla Tharp

Creativity is an act of defiance. – Twyla Tharp

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dali. – Salvador Dalí

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dali. – Salvador Dalí

Modern paintings are like women, you’ll never enjoy them if you try to understand them. – Freddie Mercury

Modern paintings are like women, you’ll never enjoy them if you try to understand them. – Freddie Mercury

Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history, etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the ‘creative bug’ is just a wee voice telling you, ‘I’d like my crayons back, please. – Hugh MacLeod

Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history, etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the ‘creative bug’ is just a wee voice telling you, ‘I’d like my crayons back, please. – Hugh MacLeod

Art is making something out of nothing, and selling it. – Frank Zappa

Art is making something out of nothing, and selling it. – Frank Zappa

Some people are born to make great art and others are born to appreciate it. … It is a kind of talent in itself, to be an audience, whether you are the spectator in the gallery or you are listening to the voice of the world’s greatest soprano. Not everyone can be the artist. There have to be those who witness the art, who love and appreciate what they have been privileged to see. – Ann Patchett

Some people are born to make great art and others are born to appreciate it. … It is a kind of talent in itself, to be an audience, whether you are the spectator in the gallery or you are listening to the voice of the world’s greatest soprano. Not everyone can be the artist. There have to be those who witness the art, who love and appreciate what they have been privileged to see. – Ann Patchett

Tell me, tutor,’ I said. ‘Is revenge a science, or an art? – Mark Lawrence

Tell me, tutor,’ I said. ‘Is revenge a science, or an art? – Mark Lawrence