Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

"A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say."

Italo Calvino

"A great artist is always before his time or behind it."

George Moore

"A man paints with his brains and not with his hands."

Michelangelo

"A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world."

Edmond de Goncourt

"A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know."

Diane Arbus

"A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light."

Henri Matisse

"A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds."

Henry Moore

"A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament."

Oscar Wilde

"A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears."

Gertrude Stein

"About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment."

Josh Billings

"Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered."

Al Capp

"Acting is a matter of giving away secrets."

Ellen Barkin

"Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century."

Marshall McLuhan

"All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography."

Federico Fellini

"All art is but imitation of nature."

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"All autobiography is self-indulgent."

Daphne du Maurier

"All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door."

Albert Camus

"All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life."

Oscar Wilde

"Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason."

Leonardo da Vinci

"An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one."

Charles Horton Cooley

"An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world."

George Santayana

"An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs."

Edgard Varese

"An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them."

Andy Warhol

"An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it."

Paul Valery