Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it. – Pope John Paul II
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 making something out of nothing, and selling it. – Frank Zappa
Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don’t come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they’re having a piss. – Banksy
A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity. – George Bernard Shaw
Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being. – C.G. Jung
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. – Susan Sontag
The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting. – Andy Warhol
Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all. – Ray Bradbury
Tell me, tutor,’ I said. ‘Is revenge a science, or an art? – Mark Lawrence
I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all. – Neil Gaiman
