Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
—Henri Matisse
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
—James Joyce
The work of art is a scream of freedom.
—Christo
Art is anything you can get away with.
—Marshall McLuhan
Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
—Salvador Dali
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
—Henry David Thoreau
Art depends on luck and talent.
—Francis Ford Coppola
The history of art is the history of revivals.
—Samuel Butler
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
—Pablo Picasso
Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.
—Egon Schiele
My love of fine art increased—the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.
—J. Paul Getty
Walking isn't a lost art: one must, by some means, get to the garage.
—Evan Esar
I paint with shapes.
—Alexander Calder
A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
—Orson Welles
The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
—Isaac Bashevis Singer