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Jean de La Fontaine on art
Author: Jean de La Fontaine“By the work one knows the workman.” -Jean de La Fontaine
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Jeff Koons on art
Author: Jeff Koons“I think about my work every minute of the day.” -Jeff Koons
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Gwendolyn Brooks on art
Author: Gwendolyn Brooks“Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.” -Gwendolyn Brooks
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James Taylor on art
Author: James Taylor“That’s the motivation of an artist – to seek attention of some kind.” -James Taylor
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Tadao Ando on art
Author: Tadao Ando“My hand is the extension of the thinking process – the creative process.” -Tadao Ando
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Cyril Connolly on art
Author: Cyril Connolly“The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.” -Cyril Connolly
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Roy Lichtenstein on art
Author: Roy Lichtenstein“Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.” -Roy Lichtenstein
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Paul Getty on art
Author: Paul Getty“My love of fine art increased – the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.” -Paul Getty
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Edgard Varese on art
Author: Edgard Varese“An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.” -Edgard Varese
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Laurie Anderson on art
Author: Laurie Anderson“I’ve never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn’t made money with it.” -Laurie Anderson
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Robert Mapplethorpe on art
Author: Robert Mapplethorpe“To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.” -Robert Mapplethorpe
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Henri Cartier-Bresson on art
Author: Henri Cartier-Bresson“The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.” -Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Francis Ford Coppola on art
Author: Francis Ford Coppola“I don’t think there’s any artist of any value who doesn’t doubt what they’re doing.” -Francis Ford Coppola
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Theodore Dreiser on art
Author: Theodore Dreiser“Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.” -Theodore Dreiser
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Andre Malraux on art
Author: Andre Malraux“Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man’s fate.” -Andre Malraux
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Stephen Sondheim on art
Author: Stephen Sondheim“Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.” -Stephen Sondheim
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Quintilian on art
Author: Quintilian“The perfection of art is to conceal art.” -Quintilian
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Novalis on art
Author: Novalis“The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.” -Novalis
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Igor Stravinsky on art
Author: Igor Stravinsky“Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.” -Igor Stravinsky
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Friedrich Schiller on art
Author: Friedrich Schiller“Art is the daughter of freedom.” -Friedrich Schiller
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Federico Fellini on art
Author: Federico Fellini“All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.” -Federico Fellini
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John Berger on art
Author: John Berger“What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.” -John Berger
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Lionel Trilling on art
Author: Lionel Trilling“Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.” -Lionel Trilling
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William Wordsworth on art
Author: William Wordsworth“Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.” -William Wordsworth