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"An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he� for some reason� thinks it would be a good idea to give them."
Andy Warhol
"One ought, each day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow."
Kurt Vonnegut
"People can misinterpret almost anything so that it coincides with views they already hold. They take from art what they already believe."
Stanley Kubrick
"By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece."
GK Chesterton
"Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape."
Pablo Picasso
"Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art."
Andy Warhol
"I don't work according to nature, but infront and together with it. An artist must observe the nature, but never confuse it with the art."
Pablo Picasso
"I think the idea of art kills creativity."
Douglas Adams
"Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction."
Pablo Picasso
"My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all."
John Lennon
"All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."
Pablo Picasso
"Everything you can imagine is real."
Pablo Picasso
"Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art."
Tom Stoppard
"The urge for destruction is also a creative urge."
Mikhail Bakunin
"I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art."
Madonna Ciccone
"Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purpose through him."
Carl Jung
"Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame."
GK Chesterton
"What is art but a way of seeing?"
Saul Bellow
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