Art Making Quotes

Art Making Quote of the day

Art-making is just another part of the consciousness industry.

If you love writing or making music or blogging or any sort of performing art, then do it. Do it with everything you've got. Just don't plan on using it as a shortcut to making a living.

I think most people agree there is a component of skill in art making; you have to learn grammar before you learn how to write.

Nature supplies the game of chess with its implements; science with its system; art with its aesthetic arrangement of its problems; and God endows it with its blessed power of making people happy.

Collage has been one of the most relevant forms of art making. It's resonant because it is made of the stuff that we see every day. It's familiar. It reflects our reality.

Of course, the process of curating is different from art making. Exhibition-making is a process that involves collaboration with various participating artists.

A picture was a motionless record of motion. An arrested representation of life. A picture was the kiss of death pretending to possess immutability.

My general approach to making art making hasn't changed much since I was 20, poor, and writing songs in my bedroom wanting to get my art out of my body into the world in some way.

Making the choice to exercise compassion is an expression of Love for Humanity and Life itself.

If art's a seismographic project, when that project meets with failure, failure must become the subject too.

Always good to remember when you're making art. You don't have to like it, just be ready to do the next thing.