Artmaking Quotes

#1. Nature places a simple constraint on those who leave the flock to go their own way: they get eaten. In society it's a bit more complicated. Nonetheless the admonition stands: avoiding the unknown has considerable survival value. Society, nature, and artmaking tend to produce guarded creatures.

David Bayles

#2. Artmaking is making the invisible, visible.

Marcel Duchamp

#3. Between the initial idea and the finished piece lies a gulf we can see across, but never fully chart. The truly special moments in artmaking lie in those moments when concept is converted to reality - those moments when the gulf is being crossed.

David Bayles

#4. Fears about artmaking fall into two families: fears about yourself and fears about your reception by others.

David Bayles

#5. I believe in animal rights, human rights, land rights, water rights, air rights.

Rod Coronado

#6. The vain woman spent fortunes seeking out astrologers, sorcerers, and magicians who would concoct spells and potions to preserve her beauty and help her remain looking young--but envy is hard to cover.

Camron Wright

#7. It's important to me that the words that I put out there into the cosmos, into the universe, be empowering or somehow positive for people that hear them, or maybe be cathartic if someone is having a relationship that's having a tough time.

Gloria Estefan

#8. My brother tried to explain sex to me when I was 7 - and he did it with a cup.

Kevin Hart

#9. I want to be normal." "Jesus Christ. You might as well want to be taller. Normal wasn't the hand you were dealt. You and I, we're not normal. That's not a choice we have.

C.D. Reiss

#10. But then it was over too quickly and they pulled away. She knew they couldn't stand there and kiss like a couple on the run in a thriller.

Joss Ware