Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there? Use this quote
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. Use this quote
Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation. Use this quote
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art. Use this quote
All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul. Use this quote
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. Use this quote
Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is. Use this quote
One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right. Use this quote
Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts. Use this quote
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. Use this quote
Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason. Use this quote
The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art. Use this quote
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. Use this quote
I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try. Use this quote
I don't need the money, dear. I work for art. Use this quote
My dad used to draw these great cartoon figures. His dream was being a cartoonist, but he never achieved it, and it kind of broke my heart. I think part of my interest in art had to do with his yearning for something he could never have. Use this quote
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. Use this quote
You have to have conviction and completely question everything and anything you do. No matter how much you study, no matter how much you know, the side of your brain that has the smarts won't necessarily help you in making art. Use this quote
I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize. Use this quote
Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good. Use this quote
