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“Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.” – Robert Smithson
“The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.” – Jerzy Kosinski
“Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.” – Michael Korda
“The work of art is a scream of freedom.” – Christo
“To draw you must close your eyes and sing.” – Pablo Picasso
“A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.” – Alexander Pope
“I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don’t need.” – Auguste Rodin
“The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.” – John James Audubon
“The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.” – Gustave Courbet
“You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.” – Pierre Bonnard
“Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don’t know in your own soul.” – Emily Carr
“I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.” – Barbara Hepworth
“A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.” – Joshua Reynolds
“Art is pattern informed by sensibility.” – Herbert Read
“Great artists have no country.” – Alfred de Musset
“Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?” – Ludwig van Beethoven
“A picture is a poem without words.” – Horace
“To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.” – Samuel Beckett
“Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.” – Susan Sontag
“Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.” – Frank Zappa
