“Be sympathetic to the maker and realize that the mere act of putting yourself and your work out there takes courage.”— Sarah Urist Green, youtube.com
“We should also value work by artists focused not just on craftsmanship but on the effective execution of good ideas. It's the thought they bring to the form, or have others bring to the form, and not just the form itself.”— Sarah Urist Green, youtube.com
“Rather than devote their lives to mastering a particular medium, some artists began to push the boundaries of those mediums and even forgo them all together. There's sculpture that is purposefully unmonumental, paintings purposefully non-virtuosic, drawings purposefully simple. It's not that these t…”— Sarah Urist Green, youtube.com
“I think it's perfectly fine to have a preference for art that displays manual talents unavailable to most.”— Sarah Urist Green, youtube.com
“When you say, 'I could do that', what you're really saying, and what I would encourage you to say next time is, 'This doesn't display a remarkable amount of skill. And that's what I really look for in art.'”— Sarah Urist Green, youtube.com
“If you think about Felix Gonzalez-Torres... we can look at "Untitled" (Perfect Lovers) from 1991 that pairs two commercially-available clocks and synchronizes their time... The title clearly asks you to consider these clocks to be a metaphor for lovers and how two individuals with hearts beating, li…”— Sarah Urist Green, youtube.com
“How do we respond when confronted with the reality that the destruction of the old is inherent to creating anything new?”— John Green, youtube.com
“The use of contrast in Peter Mullen's work for Dungeon Crawl Classics is utterly arresting. Wow.”— Kyle Latino (/ '3')/, twitter.com
“It's natural to grieve the loss of ownership and the loss of the safety of what something was before you put it out.”— Tessa Violet, youtube.com
“Whoever loves much, performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.”— Vincent Van Gogh, amazon.com
“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.”— Graham Greene, amazon.com
“The risks associated with being a commercialized artist and embarking on a typical album release, like endless promotion and touring, have nearly killed me.”— Michael Angelakos, pitchfork.com
“Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them.”— Annette Messager, amazon.com
“A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, thereby a true expression of what one feel about life in its entirety.”— Ansel Adams, amazon.com
“People's opinions on your art are all completely valid. They just don't matter.”— Mario Cornejo, twitter.com
“The conditions of our present time are not favourable to art. Art, considered in its highest vocation, is and remains for us a thing of the past.”— Owen Hulatt, aeon.co
“It's true: pain and suffering helps to create what we call art. given the choice I'd never choose this damned pain and suffering for myself but somehow it finds me as the royalties continue to roll on in.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com