Art(212)

"The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist."
David Hockney

"The most profound things are inexpressible."
Jenny Holzer

"Art is not a thing; it is a way."
Elbert Hubbard

"The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination."
Elbert Hubbard

"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads."
Erica Jong

"Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul."
Louis Kahn

"The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract."
Ellen Key

"Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime?"
Peter Kropotkin

"Andy Warhol made fame more famous."
Fran Lebowitz

"Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass."
Fran Lebowitz