“Ernst Kirchner: I'm glad, no proud that those brown shirts are burning my paintings.
Max Klinger: What do you mean?
Kirchner: Imagine how I would feel if monsters like that tolerated my work.”
Source: Erasure
“Art is not only expression — it is my way of understanding life and sharing love with the world”
“I've never won an award. I have nothing to offer the jury.”
Source: Yet Another New Land
“Every craft is just breath made visible.”
Source: The Boxmaker’s Apprentice
“The world is your stage, a platform to express,
A canvas to paint, with colors that impress.
The brushstrokes of your soul, a masterpiece in the making,
A work of art, that's constantly creating and undertaking.”
Source: Your life is poetry in motion: Its all about your life
“Art on the canvas arises from a broken heart. What you lose yourself in becomes a sky of stars or trembling roses.”
“• I hope to encourage you. I hope to show you that art isn’t just for the gifted. It’s not a talent you need to be born with. All of us, ALL OF US are artists. You don’t have to make art a career. You don’t need to paint to be an artist. Your art might be music or dance or poetry or knitting—or whatever you do to create something good to bring into this world. We’re all artists in some way. Wherever our passions lie. In that thing we do that brings us joy.”
Source: Becoming an Artist: How to Make Art Like a Human by Embracing Failure, Discovering Your Creative Voice & Finding Joy in the Process
“• It’s a sad commentary on our society that artists are so often depicted as degenerates and derelicts. Tragic and disheveled subhu¬mans with nowhere to live and not a penny to their name. I mean, it’s kind of true, but it’s still hurtful.”
Source: Becoming an Artist: How to Make Art Like a Human by Embracing Failure, Discovering Your Creative Voice & Finding Joy in the Process
“• Artists are more than our art. We’re more than what we do. We’re mothers or sisters or uncles or sons. We’re friends or teammates or class¬mates or neighbors. We’re Hes and Shes and Theys and Thems. We have beliefs in greater things, be it our Gods or the Universe or ourselves. We’re more than artists—and we can do more than just BE artists. We can be kind.”
Source: Becoming an Artist: How to Make Art Like a Human by Embracing Failure, Discovering Your Creative Voice & Finding Joy in the Process
“We all feel the pangs of imposter syndrome or the dread of not being good enough or the emptiness of artist’s block. Regardless of what medium you use to make art, please know that we are all struggling alongside you.”
Source: Becoming an Artist: How to Make Art Like a Human by Embracing Failure, Discovering Your Creative Voice & Finding Joy in the Process