All great art comes from a sense of outrage.
Every child is an artist, with imagination and the artistic instinct. Life stamps these out...
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.
Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.
Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom.
Colors are the deeds and sufferings of light.
One of the best things about paintings is their silence which prompts reflection and random reverie.
Art doesn't have to matter to a lot of people to matter a lot.
Art hath an enemy called ignorance.
What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.
Art disturbs, science reassures.
As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.
Art is spirituality in drag.
The artist's talent sits uneasy as an object of public acclaim, having been so long an object of private despair
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
Reflexes and instincts are not pretty. It is their decoration that initiates art.
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.
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.
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.