Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.
– Banksy
An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.
– Andre Malraux
An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.
– J. D. Salinger
Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.
– Edgard Varese
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
– Oscar Wilde
Above all, an artist must never be too easily satisfied with what he has done.
– Henri Matisse
Every true artist is at war with the world.
– Anthony Kiedis (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
Think eight hours, work two hours.
– Mirko Ilic
All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation.
– Susan Sontag
Wine making is an artistic creation in which you deal with a variety of styles, colors, and inspiration therefore good wine, like good art, can evoke emotions, sensations and create an experience which leaves a lasting impression.
– Giovanni Morassutti
I was studying to be an architect, I wasn’t plotting to join the movies. Films were just another career option. I took acting up with the same schoolgirl enthusiasm I had for examinations. Acting is a job and I take it very seriously.
– Aishwarya Rai
I think that the older I get and the more comfortable I get with myself, the more I realize that art is about relinquishing control of your emotions and being vulnerable and innocent.
– K.D. Lang
Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn’t really have judgement in it’s purest form. So just go, just go.
– K.D. Lang
Rules and models destroy genius and art.
– William Hazlitt
Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
– William Hazlitt
Art is more important than the artist – have no attachment to your own art. It is regressive, move on.
– Shah Rukh Khan
I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun.
– Yoko Ono
Art is a way of survival.
– Yoko Ono
The strive to improve society through art is like applying talcum powder in order to cure an advanced Goitre.
A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
– George Bernard Shaw
Cut your ear off and you’re a kook. Paint a picture of yourself with your ear cut off and you’re an artist. Go figure.
Creativity is Godlike.
A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
– Eugene Ionesco
Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.
– Alfred North Whitehead
Use the creative process – singing, writing, art, dance, whatever – to get to know yourself better.
– Catie Curtis
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…it has no survival value; rather, it is one of those things that give value to survival.
– C.S. Lewis
Chess is the Art of Analysis.
– Champion Mikhail Botvinnik
Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
Chess is everything – art, science, and sport.
– Karpov