“What kind of art inspires me the most? The kind that says something. That has a clear message.”— Yoko Ono, twitter.com
“Art is a concept. Once it is in your memory, no one can destroy it. It keeps jumping from one brain to the next like an epidemic.”— Yoko Ono, twitter.com
“Start creating your artworks without thinking so much. One day, you will find that you have been doing it for a long time.”— Yoko Ono, twitter.com
“Being creative on the waves is challenging, but we each create art in our own way.”— Bethany Hamilton, surfertoday.com
“The author describes how impressed she was with the detailed storyboards that outlined her movie – "not just sketches, but real art". She then describes a Hawaiian sunset as, "God painting His storyboard on the sky".”— Bethany Hamilton, amazon.com
“Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.”— Lady Bird Johnson, thoughtco.com
“Is that what makes art/ so desirable? What makes the under-wine flesh tasteful?”— Luther Hughes, theadroitjournal.org
“An artist is above all a human being, profoundly human to the core. If the artist can’t feel everything that humanity feels, if the artist isn’t capable of loving until he forgets himself and sacrifices himself if necessary, if he won’t put down his magic brush and head the fight against the oppress…”— Diego Rivera, goodreads.com
“I spent the two and one-half months between my meeting with the Art Commission and the beginning of my actual mural work in soaking up impressions of the productive activities of the city. I studied industrial scenes by night as well as by day, making literally thousands of sketches of towering blas…”— Diego Rivera, amazon.com
“While working in California, I met William Valentiner and Edgar Richardson of the Detroit Institute of Arts. I mentioned a desire which I had to paint a series of murals about the industries of the United States, a series that would constitute a new kind of plastic poem, depicting in color and form…”— Diego Rivera, amazon.com
“In my previous murals, I had tried to achieve a harmony in my painting with the architecture of the building. But to attempt such a harmony in the garden of the Institute would have defeated my purposes. For the walls here were of an intricate Italian baroque style, with little windows, heads of sat…”— Diego Rivera, amazon.com
“Looking back upon my work today, I think the best I have done grew out of things deeply felt, the worst from a pride in mere talent.”— Diego Rivera, amazon.com
“As an artist I have always tried to be faithful to my vision of life, and I have frequently been in conflict with those who wanted me to paint not what I saw but what they wished me to see.”— Diego Rivera, amazon.com
“my best art came when i was most open and most vulnerable and most willing to live in the light of my truth.”— Joel L. Daniels, twitter.com
“When I was young, I felt like Woody Allen. I intuited or believed he represented me on-screen. He was me. This is one of the peculiar aspects of his genius—this ability to stand in for the audience.”— Claire Dederer, theparisreview.org
“I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.”— Leonard Bernstein, goodreads.com