Quotes About Art

The time of getting fame for your name on its own is over. Artwork that is only about wanting to be famous will never make you famous. Any fame is a by-product of making something that means something. You don't go to a restaurant and order a meal because you want to have a shit.

As far as I can tell the only thing worth looking at in most museums of art is all the schoolgirls on daytrips with the art departments.

People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it's more like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a country without an army.

The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.

The art world is the biggest joke going. It's a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak.

Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas every day, we read novels by the millions, and buy records by the billions. 'We the people'--affect the making and quality of most of our culture, but not our art.

Graffiti is not the lowest form of art. Despite having to creep about at night and lie to your mum it's actually the most honest artform available.

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a fucking sharp knife to it.

Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they're having a piss.

Imagine a city where graffiti wasn't illegal, a city where everybody could draw whatever they liked. Where every street was awash with a million colours and little phrases. Where standing at a bus stop was never boring. A city that felt like a party where everyone was invited, not just the estate agents and barons of big business. Imagine a city like that and stop leaning against the wall - it's wet.

Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.

All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?

People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish... but that's only if it's done properly.

Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.

If you have a statue in the city centre you could go past it every day on your way to school and never even notice it, right. But as soon as someone puts a traffic cone on its head, you've made your own sculpture.

Writing is not a hobby. Collecting stamps or coins is a hobby. Writing is a calling.

When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful.

Quilts are more than something to keep you warm. They give women a way to express themselves creatively.I like the way that you're using pieces of your children's outgrown clothing to make this quilt. It already has memories built in it that way, don't you think?

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tattoos are like bumper stickers in some respects. Their wearers want to tell the world something.

An artist produces for the liberation of his soul If he is successful, in the end, he will draw a complete picture of himself. —SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Don't judge your creation. Accept it with gratitude. What we express is a valuable part of ourselves and worthy of our respect.

I am looking for my Caravaggio, always.