
“Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind.”
— Magdalena Abakanowicz
“The hardest part of doing anything creatively is just getting up and doing. Once I get out of bed and get into my art room, I start painting. I’m there. And I’m doing it.”
— Frances Bean Cobain
John Koch, After the Sitting
Dinah Worman(American, b.1950)Back to the Barn
oil on canvas
“Art is to console those who are broken by life.”
— Vincent van Gogh
“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.”
-Claude Monet
BalletBalletBallet… by Lousine Hogtanian
via:balletart
“Sex and art are the same thing.”
— Pablo Picasso
Maynard, acrylics and charcoal
20×16 birch panel
by Judy Shreve
“I am unable to describe exactly what is the matter with me; now and then there are horrible fits of anxiety, apparently without cause, or otherwise a feeling of emptiness and fatigue in the head.”
— Vincent van Gogh