One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
—Jean Cocteau
I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.
—David Rockefeller
An artist's career always begins tomorrow.
—James Whistler
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
—Baltasar Gracián
It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.
—Lionel Trilling
Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald
I start a picture and I finish it.
—Jean-Michel Basquiat
My painting does not come from the easel.
—Jackson Pollock
Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
—Alfred de Vigny
You don't take a photograph, you make it.
—Ansel Adams
One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
—Balthus
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
—Francis Bacon
When I have a terrible need of—shall I say the word—religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
—Vincent Van Gogh
Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
—Miguel de Unamuno
Art is made to disturb, science reassures.
—Georges Braque