“Every artwork deserves to be called art, when it has been made with the love of an artist.”— Yoko Ono, twitter.com
“Imagine the world the world you wish to exist, first. Do not be afraid to build it from scratch. Trust your vision.”— Joel L. Daniels, twitter.com
“If you do not feel represented, if you do not see the world you are envisioning for yourself, feel free to: write it, draw it, build it, make it. You have all the tools you will ever need.”— Joel L. Daniels, twitter.com
“Generally speaking, paintings with light colors sell more quickly than paintings with dark colors. Subjects that sell well: Madonna and child, landscapes, flower paintings, still lifes (free of morbid props, dead birds, etc.) Nudes, marine pictures, abstracts and surrealism. Subject matter is import…”— John Baldessari, thebroad.org
“It's hard to separate art from artists so transgender musicians will never be mainstream until transpeople are looked at as notable as maybe redheads.”— Willam Belli, enkiquotes.com
“Art—sculpture, poetry, painting, dance—is like the footprints of where the imagination has been.”— Terence McKenna, youtube.com
“A lesson to learn is to protect your dignity and self-worth as a creator. A lot of people want to buy it, and some may offer a high price tag, but once it’s gone, you can’t get it back.”— Sam Sykes, twitter.com
“My knowledge of art is infinitesimal. I know that Rembrandt was deaf (no, that was Beethoven). I know that Van Gogh got hungry one day and cut off his own ear and that Toulouse Lautrec walked around on his knees. And that’s about it.”— Groucho Marx, amazon.com
“Fashion has the power to change lives and perceptions. If fashion is one of the biggest problems, it can also be one of the biggest solutions.”— Reese Fernandez-Ruiz, medium.com
“There was a time I used art to deepen my understanding of the human condition, so Francis Bacon revealed a depth of suffering that I couldn't comprehend, or a Dylan ballad helped me get inside what it meant to live as so many of my fellow citizens do: in an existential drift.”— Annie Weisman, Cal Roberts, Hugh Dancy, imdb.com
“When we come to creative art, to the living word of a man delivering a message to his own time, it is clear that any attempt to alter this later on is simply fraud and forgery.”— George Bernard Shaw, en.wikiquote.org
“In the case of a work which is a mere exhibition of skill in conventional art, there may be some excuse for the delusion that the longer the artist works on it the nearer he will bring it to perfection. Yet even the victims of this delusion must see that there is an age limit to the process, and tha…”— George Bernard Shaw, en.wikiquote.org
“I think it's not particularly necessary to lead a religious life. People progress just as well in music, or art, or math or science or gardening or whatever. It all seems to work as well and the process is good.”— Jim Henson, goodreads.com
“I never say I do political art. Nor do I do feminist art. I’m a woman who’s a feminist, who makes art.”— Barbara Kruger, interviewmagazine.com
“Don't you love it when people in school are like, "I'm a bad test taker?" You mean, you're stupid. Oh, you struggle with that part where we find out what you know? Oh. No, no, I can totally relate. See, because I'm a brilliant painter, minus my God-awful brushstrokes. Oh, how the masterpiece is crys…”— Daniel Tosh, en.wikiquote.org
“An artistic expression is a success if it gives something to people which makes their lives easier.”— Yoko Ono, twitter.com