I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound like a very long one, but the novel... →
Jane Rule
I believe only in art and failure.
The big pay-off was to work as an artist and gain some shred of respect from your friends, who were also artists. But there was never any notion that... →
Edward Ruscha
Basically everything I've done in art, I was in possession of when I was 20 years old. I use a waste retrieval method of working. I'll go... →
I barely knew I wanted to be an artist. I liked my art classes and painting was fun, I guess, but I didn't realize that seeing the country was... →
Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to... →
Salman Rushdie
If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's not... →
In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing.
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
John Ruskin