Art(212)

"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better."
Andre Gide

"Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor."
Andre Gide

"If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."
Vincent Van Gogh

"A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world."
Edmond de Goncourt

"Rice Krispies happens to be one of my favorite junk foods, just as I regard Michener as superior among junk writers."
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

"We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives."
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

"I cry out for order and find it only in art."
Helen Hayes

"Rules and models destroy genius and art."
William Hazlitt

"The irrepressible spirit that made his playing seem like good conversation is the Rubinstein legacy for pianists, if they can pick up their heads from the keyboard long enough to claim it."
Donal Henahan

"Anything simple always interests me."
David Hockney