My mother is a great artist, but she always treated her paintings like minor postcards. Had she pursued it, she would have been a great artist. Instead, she looked down on her art. Isabel Allende artartistgreat Change image and share on social
I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away their freedom to make art, would lose their mind. Richard Price artartistdefinition Change image and share on social
Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn. Martin Amis artgrowlamb Change image and share on social
We could go work on curing cancer. We could go work on building spaceships. We could go work on art projects. What's fun about working at Asana is we get to work on all of them at the same time. Justin Rosenstein artasanabuild Change image and share on social
Well, I never studied design and I went to art school to study art, you know, sculpture and things like that, and ended up making things like sculpture and started making chairs and jewelry together and that's how I started. Marc Newson artchairdesign share on social
Back then, I didn't have a big organization around me. I was just a kid with a guitar, traveling around. My responsibility basically was to the art, and I had extra time on my hands. There is no extra time now. There isn't enough time. Joni Mitchell artbackbasically share on social
I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in the New York school. Vera Wang abstractartcontemporary Change image and share on social
You see a lot of these movies that are really just 90-minute video games. The effects are incredible. I get it: There's an art to that, terrific. I'm not interested in it, but there's an art to that I suppose. Jeff Daniels arteffectgame share on social
If only we could persuade galleries to observe a fallow period in which, for two months every other year, new and old works of art could be sold in back rooms and all main galleries would be devoted to revisiting shows gone by. Jerry Saltz artbackdevote share on social
Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights by the early fifties, and then tailing off. Jerry Saltz abstractionartcome share on social
