“A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called ‘leaves’) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and s…”— Carl Sagan, amazon.com
“One never finishes learning about art. There are always new things to discover. Great works of art seem to look different every time one stands before them. They seem to be as inexhaustible and unpredictable as real human beings.”— E. H. Gombrich, quotemadness.com
“She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn’t supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”— Rainbow Rowell, amazon.com
“One does not think during creative work any more than one thinks when driving a car. But one has a background of years – learning, unlearning, success, failure, dreaming, thinking, experience, all this – then the moment of creation, the focusing of all into the moment.”— Edward Weston, amazon.com
“The world today doesn’t make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?”— Pablo Picasso, amazon.com
“Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.”— Emil Nolde, google.com
“To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk.”— Mark Rothko, en.wikiquote.org
“I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.”— Marcel Duchamp, amazon.com
“I think everything in life is art. What you do. How you dress. The way you love someone, and how you talk. Your smile and your personality. What you believe in, and all your dreams. The way you drink your tea. How you decorate your home. Or party. Your grocery list. The food you make. How your writi…”— Helena Bonham Carter, nitch.com
“I find it so much easier to be creatively free at night. Daytime is for sleeping. Nighttime is the best time for making art. The later at night it gets the further into another world you go.”— Mark Ryden, markryden.com
“The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom.”— Jacques Lacan, amazon.com
“Real artists have day jobs, and night jobs, and afternoon jobs. Real artists make things other than art, and then they make time to make art because art is screaming to get out from inside them. Screaming, or begging, or gently whispering. Don’t ever let them tell you you’re not a success. Don’t eve…”— Sara Benincasa, medium.com
“It's never been easy to persist through difficulties but I can tell you firsthand that it's not just about trying our hardest that gets us to our goals. It's about going past that point where we usually give up. That's where the gold is.”— Bobby Chiu, youtube.com
“In the media sea of this generation, we become so used to wanting something and as long as we have the money, we can get it right away. There's so many tutorials out there that show you simple techniques we all do to our art to make it look a little bit better or cooler to the average person. But th…”— Bobby Chiu, youtube.com