Auguste Rodin

"I cry out for order and find it only in art."

Helen Hayes

"I didn't have any interest in traditional art."

Cindy Sherman

"I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting."

Roy Lichtenstein

"I don't invent characters because the Almightly has already invented millions. Just like experts at fingerprints do not create fingerprints but learn how to read them."

Isaac Bashevis Singer

"I don't need the money, dear. I work for art."

Maria Callas

"I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things."

Henri Matisse

"I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good."

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

"I don't want to see pictures of Hollywood stars in their dressing gowns taking out the rubbish. It ruins the fantasy."

Sarah Brightman

"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for."

Georgia O'Keeffe

"I have a love-hate relationship with performing."

Sarah Brightman

"I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have the light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me."

Henri Matisse

"I have been no more than a medium, as it were."

Henri Matisse

"I invent nothing, I rediscover."

Auguste Rodin

"I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul."

Mary Ellen Mark

"I like boring things."

Andy Warhol

"I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me."

Roy Lichtenstein

"I paint with shapes."

Alexander Calder

"I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy."

Oscar Levant

"I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning."

Andy Warhol

"I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good."

Barbra Streisand

"If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it."

Anais Nin

"If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."

Vincent Van Gogh

"If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes."

Mickey Spillane

"Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal."

Lionel Trilling