Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

What was any art but a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.

Anyone who's making their living from their creativity, you're so emotionally attached to the process that it really does just eat you up completely.

Picasso is not our greatest painter, but he is our greatest artist. He's the great satyr art figure. His whole life is a work of art.

Reflexes and instincts are not pretty. It is their decoration that initiates art.

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

The artist's talent sits uneasy as an object of public acclaim, having been so long an object of private despair

Art is spirituality in drag.

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life

Art disturbs, science reassures.

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.

Art hath an enemy called ignorance.

Art doesn't have to matter to a lot of people to matter a lot.

One of the best things about paintings is their silence which prompts reflection and random reverie.

Colors are the deeds and sufferings of light.

Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom.

Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.

It is for every normal human being to be an artist. It is his divine heritage, every child is an artist. Human society kills it in us before we reach maturity.

Every child is an artist, with imagination and the artistic instinct. Life stamps these out...

All great art comes from a sense of outrage.

Art is the triumph over chaos.

If Michelangelo had been straight, the Sistine Chapel would have been wallpapered.

Art is pictures straight from the heart.

Art is an adventure that never seems to end.

Art is your emotions flowing in a river of imagination.

Art is a shadow of what a person is thinking... a small glimpse of what they hold inside. Little secrets, regrets, joys... every line has its own meaning.

Art is your personal diary where you may color your thoughts and emotions on a page.

Art is the colors and textures of your imagination.

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.

Sometimes, to pursue a new idea, the artist must forfeit his deposit on an old idea.

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language.

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

Man will begin to recover the moment he takes art as seriously as physics, chemistry or money.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way things I had no words for.

Art is... a question mark in the minds of those who want to know what's happening.

There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

And, as true as fairy stories, he is painting somewhere yet!

Flowers and fields and wondrous woodlands, skies at sunrise and sunset

Painted in the sultry noontide, painted all the summer through:

Once an airy fairy painter painted in the dawn and dew,

Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.

For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.

The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art.

An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he for some reason thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter his rhyme

Let me ask you something, what is not art?

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

There is something ghostly in all great art.

What art offers is space a certain breathing room for the spirit. ~John Updike

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared at me, incredulous, and said, You mean they forget? ~Howard Ikemoto

Great art picks up where nature ends. ~Marc Chagall

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass. ~Fran Lebowitz

Art holds fast when all else is lost. ~German Proverb