I love quotes so here's a bunch of my favorites, along with my stunningly insightful commentary - ok, fine, mostly just a bunch of my smart-ass comments. Enjoy & check back because I'll be sure to add to the list as I come across some new favorites...or make them up...
"Art is the most intense form of individualism that the world has known."
- Oscar Wilde
"Art is whatever you can get away with." <whenever I make the mistake of comparing my work to others, become depressed & hating on my work, I remember Andy Warhol & this quote.>
- Andy Warhol
"Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one."
- Stella Adler
"Rules and models destroy genius and art." <see this is exactly why I'm not a fan of the rules!>
- William Hazlitt
"Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?" <well...that might all depend on how much I've had to drink...>
- M.C. Escher
"I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind." <"ordinary artist" seems to be a bit of an oxymoron, but I get his point.>
- Henry Ossawa Tanner
"It is not in life, but in art, that self-fulfillment is to be found."
- Wilson Mizner
"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home."
- Twyla Tharp
"An artist cannot fail; it is a success just to be one."
- Charles Horton Cooley
"If people don't like what you're creating, just look at them sweetly & tell them to go make their own fucking art." <this - THIS - is one of my all time favorites & why Elizabeth Gilbert is my spirit animal!>
- Elizabeth Gilbert
"Your own reasons for creating art are reasons enough. Go create whatever causes a revolution in your heart."
- Elizabeth Gilbert
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