The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
The development that produces great art is a moral and not an aesthetic development. — Patrick Swift Copy Share Image
Assassination is an art, milord. And I am the city's most accomplished artist. — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
I cannot see that art is anything less than a way of making joys perpetual. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Art thrives on obstacles. The bigger the obstacle, the better the drama. — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
I would have enjoyed playing some county cricket and learning my art that way, but I never had any ambitions at all… — Steve Smith Copy Share Image
The real artist while he paints does not think of the sale, only of the need to make a beautiful living thing. — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
It is probable that both in life and in art the values of a woman are not the values of a man. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
There's been enough building of fences with labels trying to categorize artists, limiting artists' ability to be themselves. — Mannie Fresh Copy Share Image
A dubbing artiste does a lot of repair work for an artiste who doesn't naturally speak the language they are acting in. — Chinmayi Copy Share Image
“Really, we shouldn't neglect the study of idleness so criminally, but make it into an art and a science, even into a… — Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair. — Mary Heaton Vorse Copy Share Image
Individuals have to find a place to experience a profundity of feeling, and art is a means to that. — Ed Kowalczyk Copy Share Image
I think good artists know when they're on a roll, and they recognize when lightning is striking. It's a very fortunate thing… — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
Literature often gets taught nowadays as a record of the sins and shortcomings of the past. I see literature and the arts… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out,… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
Fans decide what pop culture is. We can define ourselves. Music and the presentation of art nowadays is totally in our control,… — Laura Jane Grace Copy Share Image
I tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead… — Banksy Copy Share Image
You've got to invest in the world, you've got to read, you've got to go to art galleries, you've got to find… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
I learned more about who I am and how to be a great worker - and a great artistic worker - from… — Julie Plec Copy Share Image
Nature is indeed a specious ward, nay, there is a great deal in it if it is properly understood and applied, but… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
