I go to make art as who I am as a person.
Judy Chicago
Art grows out of the earth, the textures of our lives, and our experience.
Rufino Tamayo
Love the moment and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries
Corita Kent
The arts are the rain forests of society. They produce the oxygen of freedom, and they are the early warning system when freedom is in danger.
June Wayne
When art has changed, it's because the world was changing.
Corita Kent
Do not set out to make Mexican art, or American, Chinese, or Russian art. Think in terms of universality.
Rufino Tamayo
Art is nothing but humanized science.
Gino Severini
Art is a means of expression that must be understood by everybody, everywhere.
Rufino Tamayo
I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract.
Gustave Moreau
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
Vincent van Gogh
Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier.
Marie Laurencin
"Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.” –Frank Lloyd Wright, born on this day in 1867 Today is also World Oceans Day, the United Nations-recognized day of ocean celebration and action. The Next Wave, our yearlong lecture series on the current and future state of water, continues on June 18 with a discussion on women and water in the developing world led by Chevenee Reavis of Water.org.
This week’s #NotOnView selection is Vija Celmins’s Ocean Surface Wood Engraving.
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