Bobby Short

All art inspires me. Life inspires me. The art of life, thus my own art.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

She opened up a book of poems and handed it to me written by an Italian poet from the 13th century and every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.

I got more publicity for not doing a festival than for doing the festival.

People with talent are not interested in showing off behind another person.

He knows all about art, but he doesn’t know what he likes.

We’ll buy some drugs and watch a band and jump in a river holding hands.

The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.

Good art will speak to you if you give it a chance.

Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.

There is only 1 difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.

It’s like telling Michelangelo: ‘I know you painted this dope angel, that was really good, but Michelangelo, I don’t think you can paint a cow.’

I’ve always felt that a lot of modern art is a con, and that the most successful painters are often better salesmen and promoters than they are artists.

Everybody has that feeling when they look at a work of art and it’s right, that sudden familiarity, a sort of…recognition, as though they were creating it themselves, as though it were being created through them while they look at it or listen to it.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.