Jazz is the art of thinking out loud. Barbara Januszkiewicz artjazzloud Change image and share on social
There are certain types of slightly hysterical human characters who, rather than creating, walk around with a sense of their own potential - it's as if they themselves were art objects. They feel as if their lives are written narratives, or pieces of music. Rachel Cusk artcharactercreate share on social
When you walk down the street and see something in a crazy spot, there's something powerful about that. The street will always be an important part of getting art out there for me. Shepard Fairey artcrazyimportant Change image and share on social
A man is most happy when he is most perfect, and he is most perfect when all his faculties are proportionately and harmoniously developed. Thus developed, nature and art and society supply him with a thousand sources of enjoyment. Joseph P. Bradley artdevelopenjoyment share on social
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs. Pablo Picasso applicationartbeauty Change image and share on social
Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a very encapsulated form. It disciplines you to cut away extraneous information. Dick Wolf advertiseartcomplete Change image and share on social
Few people in contemporary art demonstrate much curiosity. The majority spend their days blathering on, rather than trying to work out why one artist is more interesting than another, or why one picture works and another doesn't. Charles Saatchi artartistblather share on social
True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation. Thomas Bailey Aldrich artparaphrasisseldom Change image and share on social
The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history. Robert Rauschenberg artisthistoryjob Change image and share on social
Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. Chinua Achebe artconstantcreate Change image and share on social
