3 December 2020 Jef I. Richards Creative without strategy is called ‘art.’ Creative with strategy is called ‘advertising.’
3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
3 December 2020 Gustave Flaubert Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz The alchemy of good curating amounts to this: Sometimes, placing one work of art near another makes one plus one equal three. Two artworks arranged alchemically leave each intact, transform both, and create a third thing.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Safran Foer There’s no being wrong in seeing something in art, only being disagreed with.
3 December 2020 Claude Monet Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
3 December 2020 Annie Lennox For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn’t the art of photography but I don’t agree.
3 December 2020 Miguel Angel Ruiz Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
3 December 2020 Stella Adler Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
3 December 2020 David Herbert Lawrence Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can’t invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
3 December 2020 Alanis Morissette Trauma happens in relationships, so it can only be healed in relationships. Art can’t provide healing. It can be cathartic and therapeutic but a relationship is a three-part journey.
3 December 2020 Paul Rand Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that’s why it is so complicated.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts – the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
3 December 2020 W. H. Auden All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.
3 December 2020 Jean Cocteau Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
3 December 2020 Andre Gide Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.
3 December 2020 Henri Cartier-Bresson The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.
3 December 2020 Lenny Bruce The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can’t fake it… try to fake three laughs in an hour – ha ha ha ha ha – they’ll take you away, man. You can’t.
3 December 2020 Chinua Achebe Art is man’s constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
3 December 2020 Ani DiFranco Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don’t think its fair that I’m living for something I can’t even define.
3 December 2020 Shia LaBeouf I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.
3 December 2020 Pink I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness and change, or at least some discussion.
3 December 2020 Michelangelo I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.
