Quotes About Art

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

I am a Communist and my painting is Communist painting.

Learn the rule like a pro so you can break them like an artist.

I begin with an idea, and then it becomes something else."-Pablo Picasso- read 6/3/17

To know what you're going to draw, you have to begin drawing.

Some painters turn a yellow dot into the sun, others turn the sun into a yellow dot.

You have to wake people up! To revolutionize their way of identifying things...you've got to create images they won't accept.

Sin una gran soledad ningún trabajo serio es posible

After Altamira, all is decadence - we have invented nothing

The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.

L'art lave notre âme de la poussière du quotidien.

Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?

When they were in school, Peter used to say that everything you do is a self-portrait. It might look like 'Saint George and the Dragon' or 'The Rape of the Sabine Women,' but the angle you use, the lighting, the composition, the technique, they're all you. You are every color and brushstroke.

Women are really not respected to this day. That's why we need humor, style, stamina, art.

True or false? Ars est celare artem (Art lies in concealing the art).

Elinor retreated to the terrace where the night air on her skin felt like a hot bath. She was hurt, it had been such an onslaught. All the things she'd achieved in the past four years, the independent life she'd built for herself, seemed to count for nothing here. The only thing that mattered to her mother was finding a husband. As for painting, well, nice little hobby, very suitable, but you won't have much time for that when the children arrive.

SM is an art. Doing it well requires more than a bag full of expensive whips and exotic electrical toys, a closet full of fetish clothes, or a basement filled with bondage furniture.

My mother's voice and my father's fists are two bookends of my childhood, and they form the basis of my art.

There were far worse strategies in life than to try to make each aspect of one's existence a minor work of art.

I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that does not mean I had to like that trend or go along with it. I fight against these movements with every book I write.

Art is one of the few places where talent and madness can actually go to squirrel away inside each other.

I have built a city from the books I've read. A good book sings a a timeless music that is heard in the choir lofts, and balconies, and theaters that thrived within that secret city inside me.

Lila Wingo would take the raw material of a daughter and shape her into a poet and a psychotic.

He tells me that teaching is the art of theft: of knowing what to steal and from whom.