No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that the others are behind the time.

Martha Graham

Great designers innovate, good designers emulate.

Mark Stosberg

Art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can only be explored by those willing to take the risks.

Mark Rothko

Art is like a shipwreck .. it's everyman for himself.

Marcel Duchamp

I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.

Marcel Duchamp

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

Lucian Freud

I just feel that I'm in tune with the right vibrations in the universe when I'm in the process of working.

Louise Nevelson

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

Leonardo da Vinci

Art is the Queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.

Leonardo da Vinci

If you really want to upset your parents, and you are not brave enough to be gay, go into the arts!

Kurt Vonnegut

If you really want to hurt your parents and you don't have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts.

Kurt Vonnegut

It has been said that art is a tryst, for in the joy of it maker and beholder meet.

Kojiro Tomita

Nobody ever called Pablo Picasso an asshole.

Jonathan Richman

That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.

John A. Locke

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.

Joan Miro