Art

🇩🇪Carl Jung

Psychology

1852–1924

"You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return."

🇺🇸William Blake

Art

Romanticism

"Without contraries there is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate are necessary to human existence."

🇺🇸Ansel Adams

Art

1902–1984

"The herculean task of a photographer is to capture a momentary frame as beautiful in reality, as it would be in a dream."

🇺🇸Bob Ross

Art

1942–1995

"Let's build us a happy, little cloud that floats around the sky."

🇺🇸Emma Roberts

Art

b. 1991

"I'm not in the gossips that much, but something I read recently was that me and Emma Watson are having a feud. And I've never even met her."

Vincent van Gogh

Art

Expressionism

1853–1890

"..Here I am shut up for the livelong day under lock and key and with keepers in a cell.. ..I will not deny that I would rather have died than have caused and suffered such trouble."

Ai Weiwei

Art

conceptual art

b. 1957

"I spend very little time just doing '“art as art.'"

🇺🇸Willem de Kooning

Art

abstract expressionism

1904–1997

"For really, when you think of all the life and death problems in the art of the Renaissance, who cares if a Chevalier is laughing or that a young girl has a red blouse on."

🇫🇷Henri Matisse

Art

Impressionism

1869–1954

"an integral translation of Matisses text: Notes of a Painter, 1908"

John Ruskin

Art

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

1819–1900

"Of human work none but what is bad can be perfect in its own bad way."

Emil Nolde

Art

Expressionism

1867–1956

"They hover before me now in drifting color, more beautiful than I can possibly paint them.. ..I yearn for the day when I will have found my color harmonies, my harmonies."

Wassily Kandinsky

Art

Symbolism

1866–1944

"Well, we will indeed see how things develop and what will become of our art! In any case, artists should remain apolitical and only think of their work and dedicate all their energies to this work."

🇬🇧David Hockney

Art

pop art

1937–2026

"'Why David Hockney Should Not Be Taken Seriously'."

"You become an artist to upset your family."

Paula Modersohn-Becker

Art

Expressionism

1876–1907

"I would like to go to Paris for a week. Fifty-six Cezannes are being shown there!"

🇺🇸Marsden Hartley

Art

Dada

1877–1943

"happily contended to be climbing the heights and the clouds by the brush method.. .. rendering the God-spirit in the mountains."

🇺🇸Julia Cameron

Literature

b. 1948

"Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything."

🇺🇸Julie Taymor

Art

b. 1952

"I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting."

🇺🇸John Cage

Art

Fluxus

1912–1992

"Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens."

🇮🇳Anish Kapoor

Art

contemporary art

b. 1954

"Jerusalem is all about a very special relationship between the ground and the sky. This work attempts to bring the two together."

🇫🇷Claude Monet

Art

Modernism

1840–1926

"I am working as hard as I possibly can, and do not even dream of doing anything except the cathedral. It is an immense task."

🇪🇸Abel Azcona

Art

contemporary art

b. 1988

"Life without provocation would be summed up in resignation, skepticism and mental asepsis."

🇩🇪Max Ernst

Art

Surrealism

1891–1976

"The 2nd of April at 9:45 a.m. Max Ernst had his first contact with the sensible world, when he came out of the egg which his mother had laid in an eagle's nest and which the bird had brooded for seven years."

🇺🇸Jeff Koons

Art

Postmodernism

b. 1955

"I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I’m a messenger."

🇺🇸Whitney Houston

Art

1963–2012

"You've got to know who you are before you step into this business, because if you're trying to find it, you'll probably wind up being somebody else, that you probably don't even like."

🇺🇸Ronda Rousey

Art

b. 1987

"People say to me all the time, "You have no fear." I tell them, "No, that's not true. I'm scared all the time. You have to have fear in order to have courage. I'm a courageous person because I'm a scared person."

🇪🇸Penélope Cruz

Art

b. 1974

"The good thing is that I have always had wonderful people around me. It's dangerous when you start earning a lot of money and you become famous when you are too young."

🇺🇸Judy Garland

Art

1922–1969

"I wanted to believe, and I tried my damnedest to believe, in the rainbow I tried to get over, and I couldn't! … So what? Lots of people can't!"

"Hell is a fallacy, and heaven is a fantasy created by man."

🇫🇷Invader (artist)

Art

street art

b. 1969

"I always try to use new media for the gallery, but I realize that pixels and mosaics are mainly my signature."

🇺🇸Namwali Serpell

Art

b. 1980

"…partly because I’m perceived as black…the idea I could look at my mother and say to her that I’m not black makes no sense. To me, blackness is just part of what the family is."

🇺🇸Clemantine Wamariya

Art

b. 1988

"I want to be so loud about the experience of killing each other. I want to tap into everyone’s senses, to touch on our human sensibility."

🇨🇭Alberto Giacometti

Art

Surrealism

1901–1966

"Figures were never for me a compact mass but like a transparent construction."

"The fear of failure isn’t an easy thing to sit with, but it’s also what pushes you to try your hardest no matter the cost."

"No piece of art can depict feelings if a piece of reality is not included in it."

🇺🇸Man Ray

Art

Dada

1890–1976

"Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask "how", while others of a more curious nature will ask "why". Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information."

🇬🇧Justine Frischmann

Art

b. 1969

"I just thought it was better to be Pete Best than Linda McCartney"