134 Inspiring Art Quotes

Art has the power to transcend the limits of language, evoking emotion and inspiring change. Whether captured in paint, ink, or digital pixels, the essence of art lies in its ability to connect us to the core of our humanity. This curated collection of 134 inspiring art quotes celebrates the boundless creativity and vision of artists from around the world. These quotes capture not only the beauty of their craft but also the profound insights and reflections that art uniquely offers. Let these words spark your imagination, fuel your passion, and deepen your appreciation for the influence of artistry in our lives. Dive into this treasure trove of inspiration, where every quote is a reminder of the transformative power of art.

1. “I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.” - Steve Martin

2. “Does something which exists on the edge have no true relevance to the stable center, or does it, by being on the edge, become a part of the edge and thus a part of the boundary, the definition which gives the whole its shape?” - Lucy Grealy

3. “I've been told my old city possesses a 'thriving arts scene,' whatever that is; personally, I think artists should lie low and stick to their work, not line-dance through the parks.” - Walter Kirn

4. “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” - Pablo Picasso

5. “A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line...To snatch in a moment of courage, from the remorseless rush of time, a passing phase of life is only the beginning of the task. The task approached in tenderness and faith is to hold up unquestioningly, without choice and without fear, the rescued fragment before all eyes and in the light of a sincere mood. It is to show its vibration, its colour, its form; and through its movement, its form, and its colour, reveal the substance of its truth -- disclose its inspiring secret: the stress and passion within the core of each convincing moment. In a single-minded attempt of that kind, if one be deserving and fortunate, one may perchance attain to such clearness of sincerity that at last the presented vision of regret or pity, of terror or mirth, shall awaken in the hearts of the beholders that feeling of unavoidable solidarity; of the solidarity in mysterious origin, in toil, in joy, in hope, in uncertain fate, which binds men to each other and all mankind to the visible world.” - Joseph Conrad

6. “Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.” - Alice Walker

7. “The greatest artist does not have any conceptWhich a single piece of marble does not itself containWithin its excess, though onlyA hand that obeys the intellect can discover it.” - Michelangelo Buonarroti

8. “A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth. ” - Richard Avedon

9. “It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one's arms again.” - Mark Rothko

10. “We have art in order not to die of the truth.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

11. “I really, sincerely believe that one should trust the work, and not the author.” - Peter Greenaway

12. “Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not” - John Keats

13. “...I do not want art for a few; any more than education for a few; or freedom for a few... ” - William Morris

14. “A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.” - Edmond De Goncourt

15. “During my tenure at the Endowment, I often found that those who did us the most damage did so under the justification of helping us by 'preventing worse language.' In the military it would be called friendly fire. One ends up just as dead.” - John Frohnmayer

16. “The most vital things in the look of a landscape endure only for a moment. Work should be done from memory; memory of that vital moment.” - Robert Henri

17. “Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.” - Robert Henri

18. “A not complete unit or a new unit. The elements in the 3 parts should neither fit nor not fit together.One would like not to be led. Avoid the idea of a puzzle which could be solved. Remove the signs of thought. It is not thought which needs showing.” - Jasper Johns

19. “I want what we all want," said Carl. "To move certain parts of the interior of myself into the exterior world, to see if they can be embraced.” - Jonathan Lethem

20. “To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes.” - Akira Kurosawa

21. “I thought clay must feel happy in the good potter's hand.” - Janet Fitch

22. “Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.” - Oscar Wilde

23. “And I bet it's harder than people think, isn't it? Everything looks so simple from a distance. Then, the more you look, the more you see. And that's when you have to rise to the challenge.” - Laura Pritchett

24. “Some say art is our highest form of hope. . . . Perhaps it's our only hope.” - Roma Tearne

25. “He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.” - Irving Stone

26. “I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity.” - Marilyn Monroe

27. “For a true artist, difficulties become opportunities and clouds become solid present.” - Alejandro Jodorowsky

28. “To be an outlaw you must first have a base in law to reject and get out of, I never had such a base. I never had a place I could call home that meant any more than a key to a house, apartment or hotel room. … Am I alien? Alien from what exactly? Perhaps my home is my dream city, more real than my waking life precisely because it has no relation to waking life…” - William S. Burroughs

29. “The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.” - G.K. Chesterton

30. “Art is long, and Time is fleeting.” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

31. “We suffered for our art. You have to suffer for our art as well!” - Terry Gilliam

32. “Within this new work of art a creature from beyond the reach of Humanity has insinuated herself and now lurks there at the heart of the mystery, a power unimagined before our time.” - Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

33. “Vaguely conscious of that great suspense in which we live, we find our escape from its sterile, annihilating reality in many dreams, in religion, passion, art.” - Arthur Symons

34. “I believe in walking out of a museum before the paintings you've seen begin to run together. How else can you carry anything away with you in your mind's eye?” - Elizabeth Kostova

35. “More of me comes out when I improvise.” - Edward Hopper

36. “Through our own creative experience we came to know that the real tradition in art is not housed only in museums and art galleries and in great works of art; it is innate in us and can be galvanized into activity by the power of creative endeavor in our own day, and in our own country, by our own creative individuals in the arts. We also came to realize that we in Canada cannot truly understand the great cultures of the past and of other peoples, until we ourselves commence our own creative life in the arts. Until we do so, we are looking at these from the outside.” - Lawren Harris

37. “You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.” - Orson Scott Card

38. “A photograph is usually looked at- seldom looked into.” - Ansel Adams

39. “Because when you love something, you want to do it all the time, even if no one is paying you for it. At least that's how I felt about drawing.” - Meg Cabot

40. “All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.” - Roman Payne

41. “A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.” - Vladimir Nabokov

42. “It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow. ” - Vladimir Nabokov

43. “Artists are those who can evade the verbose.” - Haruki Murakami

44. “Everyone tries to make his life a work of art. We want love to last and we know that it does not last; even if, by some miracle, it were to last a whole lifetime, it would still be incomplete. Perhaps, in this insatiable need for perpetuation, we should better understand human suffering, if we knew that it was eternal. It appears that great minds are, sometimes, less horrified by suffering than by the fact that it does not endure. In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day. One morning, after many dark nights of despair, an irrepressible longing to live will announce to us the fact that all is finished and that suffering has no more meaning than happiness.” - Albert Camus

45. “Curiosity is the main energy...” - Robert Rauschenberg

46. “It is the very essence of art,' she [Hallie Flanagan:] told a group gathered in Washington . . ., 'that it exceed bounds, often including those of tradition, decorum, and that mysterious thing called taste. It is the essence of art that it shatter accepted patterns, advance into unknown territory, challenge the existing order. Art is highly explosive. To be worth its salt it must have in that salt a fair sprinkling of gunpowder.” - Susan Quinn

47. “Art has a voice - let it speak.” - Rochelle Carr

48. “The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.” - Chuck Palahniuk

49. “For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must be satisfaction at the end. A little bit of hunger, but also satisfaction.” - Toni Morrison

50. “There are only two styles of portrait painting: the serious and the smirk.” - Charles Dickens

51. “Just as when we step into a mosque and its high open dome leads our minds up, up, to greater things, so a great carpet seeks to do the same under the feet. Such a carpet directs us to the magnificence of the infinite, veiled, yet never near, closer than the pulse of jugular, the sunburst that explodes at the center of a carpet signals this boundless radiance. Flowers and trees evoke the pleasures of paradise, and there is always a spot at the center of the carpet that brings calm to the heart. A single white lotus flower floats in a turquoise pool, and in this tiniest of details, there it is: a call to the best within, summoning us to the joy of union. In carpets, I now saw not just intricacies of nature and color, not just mastery of space, but a sign of the infinite design. In each pattern lay the work of a weaver of the world, complete and whole; and in each knot of daily existence lay mine.” - Anita Amirrezvani

52. “Art is neither a profession nor a hobby. Art is a Way of being.” - Frederick Franck

53. “To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk.” - Edward Weston

54. “She soon learned, though, that giving weight to other people's opinions was creative nihilism; it was like being banished from the Land of No Words and exiled to the Land of All Bullshit.” - Stephanie Kallos

55. “Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.” - Karl Lagerfeld

56. “Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.” - Karl Lagerfeld

57. “This recognition of the truth we get in the artist’s work comes to us as a revelation of new truth. I want to be clear about that. I am not referring to the sort of patronizing recognition we give a writer by nodding our heads and observing, “Yes, yes, very good, very true—that’s just what I’m always saying.” I mean the recognition of a truth that tells us something about ourselves that we had not been always saying, something that puts a new knowledge of ourselves withint our grasp. It is new, startling, and perhaps shattering, and yet it comes to us with a sense of familiarity. We did not know it before, but the moment the poet has shown it to us, we know that, somehow or other, we had always really known it.” - Dorothy L. Sayers

58. “The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.” - Lester Bangs

59. “Style is the answer to everything.A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thingTo do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without itTo do a dangerous thing with style is what I call artBullfighting can be an artBoxing can be an artLoving can be an artOpening a can of sardines can be an artNot many have styleNot many can keep styleI have seen dogs with more style than men,although not many dogs have style.Cats have it with abundance.When Hemingway put his brains to the wall with a shotgun,that was style.Or sometimes people give you styleJoan of Arc had styleJohn the BaptistJesusSocratesCaesarGarcía Lorca.I have met men in jail with style.I have met more men in jail with style than men out of jail.Style is the difference, a way of doing, a way of being done.Six herons standing quietly in a pool of water,or you, naked, walking out of the bathroom without seeing me.” - Charles Bukowski

60. “And whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that anybody knows, and every single thing with a higher degree of accuracy than any other man –whoever tells us this, I think that we can only imagine him to be a simple creature who is likely to have been deceived by some wizard or actor whom he met, and whom he thought all-knowing, because he himself was unable to analyze the nature of knowledge and ignorance and imitation.” - Plato

61. “I don't believe any real artists have ever been non-political. They may have been insensitive to this particular plight or insensitive to that, but they were political, because that's what an artist is―a politician.” - Toni Morrison

62. “Un romanzo non è un'allegoria” dissi verso la fine della lezione “È l'esperienza sensoriale di un altro mondo. Se non entrate in quel mondo, se non trattenete il respiro insieme ai personaggi, se non vi lasciate coinvolgere nel loro destino, non arriverete mai a indentificarvi con loro, non arriverete mai al cuore del libro. È così che si legge un romanzo: come se fosse qualcosa da inalare, da tenere nei polmoni. Dunque, cominciate a respirare. Ricordate solo questo. È tutto; potete andare.” - Azar Nafisi

63. “Art makes the spirit soar. And when the spirit is lifted, life follows.” - Adriana Trigiani

64. “I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.” - Marcel Duchamp

65. “Because you live to love and love to live/ And because of what your heardrum will give/ Now we might love to live and live to love.” - Janet Goodfriend

66. “How should an artist begin to do his work as an artist? I would insist that he begin his work as an artist by setting out to make a work of art.” - Francis Schaeffer

67. “In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.” - Ernst Fischer

68. “I get angry about things, then go on and work.” - Toni Morrison

69. “Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch and hold them and be fair to them.” - Rainer Maria Rilke

70. “Art is something you choose to make... it's a bringing together of... of everything around you into something that makes you more human, more khepri, whatever. More of a person.” - China Miéville

71. “The lonesome and desperate kids out there, that pain will translate to magic perhaps.” - Tenacious D

72. “Here is a lesson in creative writing.First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.And I realize some of you may be having trouble deciding whether I am kidding or not. So from now on I will tell you when I'm kidding.For instance, join the National Guard or the Marines and teach democracy. I'm kidding.We are about to be attacked by Al Qaeda. Wave flags if you have them. That always seems to scare them away. I'm kidding.If you want to really hurt your parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.” - Kurt Vonnegut

73. “Find your authentic voice, become vulnerable, and then put yourself out there.” - Meredith Brooks

74. “The verb 'to darn' is explained in my pocket dictionary as follows: 'To mend by imitating the texture of the stuff, with thread and needle.' But this definition does not correspond to the work accomplished by good Chinese housewives. When they mend a sock, they do not try 'to imitate the texture of the stuff'. Their art makes no attempt at concealment: it even takes a certain pride in revealing itself.” - Daniele Vare

75. “But if I am not a criminal, I beg to be permitted to go abroad with my wife temporarily, for at least one year, with the right to return as soon as it becomes possible in our country to serve great ideas in literature without cringing before little men, as soon as there is at least a partial change in the prevailing view concerning the role of the literary artist. (“Letter To Stalin”)” - Yevgeny Zamyatin

76. “Ars est celaree artem.” - Ovidio

77. “A cultured society that has fallen away from its religious traditions expects more from art than the aesthetic consciousness and the 'standpoint of art' can deliver. The Romantic desire for a new mythology... gives the artist and his task in the world the consciousness of a new consecration. He is something like a 'secular saviour' for his creations are expected to achieve on a small scale the propitiation of disaster for which an unsaved world hopes.” - Hans-Georg Gadamer

78. “It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling; it always broke down at the critical moment; heroically, one must force it on.” - Virginia Woolf

79. “Fueled by my inspiration, I ran across the room to steal the cup of coffee the bookshelf had taken prisoner. Lapping the black watery brew like a hyena, I tossed the empty cup aside. I then returned to the chair to continue my divine act of creation. Hot blood swished in my head as my mighty pen stole across the page.” - Roman Payne

80. “It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most of these jokers don't even want to use language you and I know or can learn . . . they would rather sneer at us and be smug, because we 'fail' to see what they are driving at. If indeed they are driving at anything--obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence.” - Robert A. Heinlein

81. “The philosophers write about things as they are and as they appear to be, but as an artist I find that appearance is everything.” - Gary Inbinder

82. “To wake the soul by tender strokes of art,To raise the genius, and to mend the heart” - Alexander Pope

83. “O Divine Poesy, goddess, daughter of Zeus, sustain for me this song of the various-minded man who, after he had plundered the innermost citadel of hallowed Troy, was made to stay grievously about the coasts of men, the sport of their customs, good and bad, while his heart, through all the sea-faring, ached with an agony to redeem himself and bring his company safe home. Vain hope – for them. The fools! Their own witlessness cast them aside. To destroy for meat the oxen of the most exalted Sun, wherefore the Sun-god blotted out the day of their return. Make this tale live for us in all its many bearings, O Muse.” – from Homer’s Odyssey, translation by T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)” - Steven Pressfield

84. “We’re all pros already. 1) We show up every day 2) We show up no matter what 3) We stay on the job all day 4) We are committed over the long haul 5) The stakes for us are high and real 6) We accept remuneration for our labor 7) We do not overidentify with our jobs 8 ) We master the technique of our jobs 9) We have a sense of humor about our jobs 10) We receive praise or blame in the real world” - Steven Pressfield

85. “Oh! to shoot for the stars if feels right. Aim for my heart if it feels right.” - Maroon 5

86. “It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him.” - Oscar Wilde

87. “NO MUSE IS GOOD MUSETo be an Artist you need talent, as well as a wifewho washes the socks and the children,and returns phone calls and library books and types.In other words, the reason there are so many moreMen Geniuses than Women Geniuses is not Genius.It is because Hemingway never joined the P.T.A.And Arthur Rubinstein ignored Halloween.Do you think Portnoy's creator sits through children's theatermatinees--on Saturdays?Or that Norman Mailer faced 'driver's ed' failure,chicken pox or chipped teeth?Fitzgerald's night was so tender because the fenderhis teen-ager dented happened when Papa was at a story conference.Since Picasso does the painting, Mrs. Picasso did the toilet training.And if Saul Bellow, National Book Award winner, invited thirty-threefor Thanksgiving Day dinner, I'll bet he had help.I'm sure Henry Moore was never a Cub Scout leader,and Leonard Bernstein never instructed a tricyclerOn becoming a bicycler just before he conducted.Tell me again my anatomy is not necessarily my destiny,tell me my hang-up is a personal and not a universal quandary,and I'll tell you no muse is a good museunless she also helps with the laundry.” - Rochelle Distelheim

88. “Painting completed my life. I lost three children and a series of other things that would have fulfilled my horrible life. My painting took the place of all this. I think work is the best. (Frida Kahlo, p. 157)” - Martha Zamora

89. “I wish I could say we all lived happily ever after. I can't. But I can say we lived. Our love for Nate lives, and he's left us this piece of himself in his art; it was his gift to us. We know him through his art, and I can take comfort in that. I guess the thing about high school is, it's the moment when you start to cross from a being a kid to being an adult, and this journey to know yourself begins. Nate's journey ended to early, and I thought I had to run away to some far-off land to start mine. But, for now, it seems to me that I have enough to explore right here. There's a whole continent to discover in myself, and I know that it's love - love for my parents, my friends, my brother, and my art - that will guide me. Love will be my map.” - Lisa Ann Sandell

90. “Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.” - Criss Jami

91. “I will admit that I wanted to shout for standing on the top of a scaffold in front of a good new wall always goes to my head. It is a sensation something between that of an angel let out of his cage into a new sky and a drunkard turned loose in a royal cellar.And after all, what nobler elevation could you find in this world than the scaffold of a wall painter? No admiral on the bridge of a new battleship designed by the old navy, could feel more pleased with himself than Gulley, on two planks, forty feet above dirt level, with his palette table beside him, his brush in his hand, and the draught blowing up his trousers; cleared for action.” - Joyce Cary

92. “Most great artists define a new and unique region of hell.” - Scott Warren Miller

93. “The Baron told her that only art meant anything.” - Edward Gorey

94. “God and other artists are always a little obscure.....” - Oscar Wilde

95. “Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.” - Paul Klee Foundation

96. “Forge your iron; shape it by force, not into a flower you already know but into what can also be a flower if you think it is and it is so.” - João Cabral de Melo Neto

97. “Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.” - W. Somerset Maugham

98. “One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions. It worked in the way that religion was supposed to, if you thought about it.” - Nick Hornby

99. “Like the sundial, my paint box counts no hours but sunny ones.” - Arthur Rackham

100. “Everything worthwhile ends. We are in the perpetual process now: creation, maturation, cessation.” - John Logan

101. “Have you killed anyone?” she asked quickly.“What? Did you miss what I said, about turning murder intoan art form?”“But you haven’t actually killed anyone yet, have you? I readyour file.”He glowered. “Technically, yeah, all right, maybe I haven’t” - Derek Landy

102. “Look, I don't see why bad artists - I mean artists who are obviously incompetent... - why they should be presented hypocritically as good artists just because they're supposed to be advancing the frontiers of freedom of expression or... ...demonstrating that there should be no limit on subject matter.” - Anthony Burgess

103. “For all the pain you suffered, my mama. For all the torment of your past and future years, my mama. For all the anguish this picture of pain will cause you. For the unspeakable mystery that brings good fathers and sons into the world and lets a mother watch them tear at each other’s throats. For the Master of the Universe, whose suffering world I do not comprehend. For dreams of horror, for nights of waiting, for memories of death, for the love I have for you, for all the things I remember, and for all the things I should remember but have forgotten, for all these I created this painting—an observant Jew working on a crucifixion because there was no aesthetic mold in his own religious tradition into which he could pour a painting of ultimate anguish and torment.” - Chaim Potok

104. “Pornography won’t be enough. Because it never is. Sooner or later, all niggers want to touch the real thing. All dogs want to smell and taste the true information. All artists want to make their fantasies reality. And everyone with a cock wants to use it to fall in love.” - Peter Sotos

105. “A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is...like a life without pictures.” - Stephen King

106. “Admittedly, art is somewhat like spit. It does not repulse or even worry is while it is still inside of us, but once it exits our body, it becomes disgusting.” - Ivan Brunetti

107. “Her life was like a burst of wild, flowing Chinese calligraphy, written under the influence of alcohol.” - Wei Hui

108. “Do you know why teachers use me? Because I speak in tongues. I write metaphors. Every one of my stories is a metaphor you can remember. The great religions are all metaphor. We appreciate things like Daniel and the lion’s den, and the Tower of Babel. People remember these metaphors because they are so vivid you can’t get free of them and that’s what kids like in school. They read about rocket ships and encounters in space, tales of dinosaurs. All my life I’ve been running through the fields and picking up bright objects. I turn one over and say, Yeah, there’s a story. And that’s what kids like. Today, my stories are in a thousand anthologies. And I’m in good company. The other writers are quite often dead people who wrote in metaphors: Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne. All these people wrote for children. They may have pretended not to, but they did.” - Ray Bradbury

109. “Tot așa cum galbenul este intotdeauna asociat cu lumina, se poate spune și că albastrul aduce cu el și un principiu al întunericului. Această culoare are un efect special și aproape indescriptibil asupra ochiului. Pe scara culorilor este una puternică, însă de partea negativă, și la maximum de puritate este, cum s-ar zice, o negație stimulatoare. Aspectul său este deci un fel de contradicție între excitație și calm.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

110. “Yeni resim gökyüzü kadar manasız ve boş, fakat gökyüzü kadar derin ve zengindir. Maviliği seven bir adamın yeni resmi sevmemesine imkan yoktur. Fakat maviliği sevebilmek meseledir.” - Sabahattin Eyuboğlu

111. “This kind of art school is for me the least important. A spiritual structure is needed. If a person is an artist he can use the most primitive of instruments:- a broken knife is enough. Otherwise it remains a craft school.” - Joseph Bueys

112. “We can never be entirely original, as artists or as people. The genius and vision of those who came before us is too great for us to digress from entirely. Though, as creatures that are compelled to test and surpass our own creative abilities, we must always strive for that originality in everything we do in order to move the world forward.” - Jessica Lave

113. “As an artist you organize your life so that you get a chance to paint, a window of time, but that's no guarantee you'll create anything worth all your effort. You're always haunt by the idea you're wasting your life.” - Chuck Palahniuk

114. “The only interesting ideas are heresies.” - Susan Sontag

115. “The heart of creativity is an experience of the mystical union; the heart of the mystical union is an experience of creativity.” - Julia Cameron

116. “Art is a captured emotion. When I say this I mean all artists, whether you are a photographer, a writer, or sculptor, you are trying to capture the way someone or something made you feel. As a story teller I am trying to captivate the audience and allow them to feel just a small portion of the emotion I am desperately trying to preserve.” - Tommy Tran

117. “The film is the first art form capable of demonstrating how matter plays tricks on man.” - Walter Benjamin

118. “Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art—a euphemism—tamed wilderness.” - Dejan Stojanovic

119. “Perfection seems sterile; it is final, no mystery in it; it's a product of an assembly line.” - Dejan Stojanovic

120. “An artist who painted a face was now 'playing with the idea of portraiture,' or 'exploring push-pull aesthetics,' or toying with contradictions like 'menacing-slash-playful,' but he or she was never, ever, just painting a face.” - Steve Martin

121. “Давнишняя мысль моя, что искусство не название разряда или области, обнимающей необозримое множество понятий и разветвляющихся явлений, но наоборот, нечто узкое и сосредоточенное, обозначение начала, входящего в состав художественного произведения, название примененной в нем силы или разработанной истины. И мне искусство никогда не казалось предметом или стороною формы, но скорее таинственной и скрытой частью содержания. Мне это ясно, как день, я это чувствую всеми своими фибрами, но как выразить и сформулировать эту мысль?Произведения говорят многим: темами, положениями, сюжетами, героями. Но больше всего говорят они присутствием содержащегося в них искусства. Присутствие искусства на страницах «Преступления и наказания» потрясает больше, чем преступление Раскольникова. Искусство первобытное, египетское, греческое, наше, это, наверное, на протяжении многих тысячелетий одно и то же, в единственном числе остающееся искусство. Это какая-то мысль, какое-то утверждение о жизни, по всеохватывающей своей широте на отдельные слова не разложимое, и когда крупица этой силы входит в состав какой-нибудь более сложной смеси, примесь искусства перевешивает значение всего остального и оказывается сутью, душой и основой изображенного.” - Борис Пастернак

122. “Fortunately for me, I know well enough what I want, and am basically utterly indifferent to the criticism that I work to hurriedly. In answer to that, I have done some things even more hurriedly theses last few days.” - Vincent Van Gogh

123. “...art must must carry man's craving for the ideal, must be an expression of his reaching out towards it; that art must give man hope and faith. And the more hopeless the world in the artist's version, the more clearly perhaps must we see the ideal that stands in opposition - otherwise life becomes impossible! Art symbolises the meaning of our existence.” - Andrei Tarkovsky

124. “What he was after hangs between the visible and the invisible, between the here and now and the seemingly elsewhere.” - Andre Aciman

125. “Modern art = I could do that + Yeah, but you didn't.” - Craig Damrauer

126. “The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.” - C.S. Lewis

127. “none of my art is based on how others think i should have done it.” - Darnell Lamont Walker

128. “The creative impulse can be killed, but it cannot be taught...What a teacher can do...in working with children, is to give the flame enough oxygen so that it can burn. As far as I'm concerned, this providing of oxygen is one of the noblest of all vocations.” - Madeleine L'Engle

129. “Regarding the creative: never assume you're the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you're masterful.” - Don Roff

130. “We were kids without fathers, so we found our fathers on wax and on the streets and in history, and in a way, that was a gift. We got to pick and choose the ancestors who would inspire the world we were going to make for ourselves.” - Jay-Z

131. “Don’t be a critic. The critic is to art what the limp penis is to sex.” - Steve Maraboli

132. “Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new film, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul.” - Jim Jarmusch

133. “My first thought, as a child, was that the artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and that he does it without destroying something else. A kind of refutation of the conservation of matter. That still seems to me its central magic, its core of joy.” - John Updike

134. “It's beautiful to transcend generations and to just be inside an artistic work, together, enjoying what only a great artistic work can provide.” - Peter Davis