An artist's creative energy is ephemeral as a flower. It blooms and soon dies. No artist is great forever. Personally, I think… — Kim Ki-duk Copy Share Image
Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
“And let’s debunk one bit of writer myth while we’re here: Doing a seventeenth revision on a project does not make a… — Holly Lisle Copy Share Image
Not only in antiquity but in our own times also laws have been passed...to secure good conditions for workers; so it is… — Bernardino Ramazzini Copy Share Image
It happened very providentially, to the honor of the Christian religion, that it did not take its rise in the dark illiterate… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I'm a painter, that's where I started out, at four years old, that was my first love as far as expression. So,… — Diane Lane Copy Share Image
Be careful what you wish for, I guess. I believe - this will sound bloated, but I believe it - that true… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as a rebellious artist, a lot of people have said that about me because I came from… — Danny Fox Copy Share Image
I was swimming in art day and night. There were always parties being thrown, with artists from every medium (my extended aunts… — Michael Hyatt Copy Share Image
“It’s up to the writer and the artist to give voice to these people. There are two impulses in art: one is… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, some of the young talants are becoming fashionable. And anything that's fashionable can become unfashionable. So one has to watch that.… — Laurence Graff Copy Share Image
I think America is really well-positioned, because we do train people to be creative and sometimes resist authority, which helps in being… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Who would be an artist that was perfectly happy? Maybe nowadays, but when I grew up in the '60s, you had nobody… — Amy Sillman Copy Share Image
For artists, looking back in time for ideas is commonplace, but there's an overwhelming sense of '70s and '80s nostalgia in California… — Anthony Fantano Copy Share Image
It wasn't stone. It wasn't welded steel. It wasn't traditional sculpture. They thought it was craft, or something else, but not art.… — Ruth Asawa Copy Share Image
“All art, be it writing, painting, film, dance, whatever, is a manipulation of time and space. It’s an interpretation and a recreation… — Elisa Lorello Copy Share Image
It is the highest form of culture and craftmanship in art to use local materials. That way you stand a chance of… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
I could turn on my radio in the morning when I was getting dressed for school and hear Frank Sinatra and Duke… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Cleveland has a very bad reputation, but there's a lot of stuff that's left over from when there were very wealthy people… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
“I don't do martial arts for trophies or for fun. I'm a fighter, and I train to win any fight I'm in.… — Jonathan Maberry Copy Share Image
He [Michael Jackson] would choose specific moments. They were art history books that I prefer. They were paintings that he prefers. It's… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
In my life I have had to work through problems of stigmatization and prejudice. When I discovered the power of the arts… — Reza Abdoh Copy Share Image
I think it's our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the… — Mitski Copy Share Image
The essential in artistic creativity is victory over the burden of necessity. In art, man lives outside himself, outside his burdens, the… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
Not 'I don't give a f-' to just be reckless and do whatever, but 'I don't give a f- what they say.'… — Justin Bieber Copy Share Image
“I’m allergic to abstraction. Especially in my first two books, I was telling the story of the transformation of urban America, especially… — Carlo Rotella Copy Share Image
Comprehensibility is the highest law of all. Unity must be there. There must be means of ensuring it. All the things familiar… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
For chemistry is no science form'd à priori; 'tis no production of the human mind, framed by reasoning and deduction: it took… — Herman Boerhaave Copy Share Image
When museums are built these days, architects, directors, and trustees seem most concerned about social space: places to have parties, eat dinner,… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
There comes a moment in a young artist's life when he knows he has to bring something to the stage from within… — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
I like the idea that you can paint something outdoors, and anyone can see it. It's open to anyone, and people have… — Barry McGee Copy Share Image
I am all for art's finding a large audience. But the way that's happening now, with big works filling big galleries and… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I am good in the fact that most of my reviews have been very positive really. I get pretty good reviews. There… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
Whatever sphere of the human mind you may select for your special study, whether it be language, or religion, or mythology, or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Since men do not really respect anything unless it was established long ago and has developed slowly over time, those who want… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I knew they wouldn’t approve of me, despite the fact I was well off and successful. How I earned my money, and… — Melanie Moreland Copy Share Image
There are some very unsavoury aspects of art dealing that go with the unregulated nature of the market but its all part… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
Art is a funny thing. It's a communicative medium. It really is, and it works outside of literature, the movies, stage, it… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
I teach art at a famous art school, and yet I don't have really the least notion what post-modernism means, but we… — Lawrence Jordan Copy Share Image
My heart beats more for a raw, average vulgar art, which doesn't live between sleepy fairy-tale moods and poetry but rather concedes… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
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