I always said I just wanted to be an artist that made like $500 a week from music and anything on top… — Masked Wolf Copy Share Image
Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
Through reproductive technology, postmodernist art dispenses with the aura. The fiction of the creating subject gives way to a frank confiscation, quotation,… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
I consider myself a Chicagoan. I came here to study at the Art Institute in 1951 when I was 18 years old,… — Joe Sedelmaier Copy Share Image
The one thing I'm jealous of a signature-artist situation is that if you just do one thing and slight variations on it,… — Jim Shaw Copy Share Image
If artists want to have people come to their shows and buy their merchandise, they really have to make a commitment to… — Steve Mahoney Copy Share Image
With the invention of the blog and all this Internet stuff, everybody has an opinion; everybody has a voice. In fact, there… — Ice T Copy Share Image
Both those taking snaps and documentary photographers... have not understood information. What they produce are camera memories, not information, and the better… — Vilém Flusser Copy Share Image
Theatre is real-time - you get that real-time audience reaction, which is fantastic. And with art pieces, people don't ever have to… — Elizabeth Diller Copy Share Image
Rest assured that if you work every day at your art, using the materials nearest at hand, you will gradually discover such… — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
I have no use for cranks who despise music, because it is a gift of God. Music drives away the Devil and… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
It is sometimes asserted that a surgical operation is or should be a work of art ... fit to rank with those… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
In a sense, every work you do is a self-portrait because your paintings always reveal more about you than about your subject.… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
I shall never forget what I saw at the Museum of Modern Art: in a spotless schoolroom, fifty little girls painting away… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
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My pictures are devoid of objects; like objects, they are themselves objects. This means that they are devoid of content, significance or… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Drue [Langlois] and I started making music together before we started the Art Lodge, so I guess musical collaboration came first. The… — Michael Dumontier Copy Share Image
I feel like people want to be surprised when they get out of the movies. They want something thrown at them they… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
“All of the fucking in “The Art of Joy” could put it in a class with “Story of O” or “The Sexual… — Disobedience is a Virtue On Goliarda Sapienza s The Art of Joy The New Yorker Copy Share Image
Finding temporary and specific causes for misfortune is the art of hope: Temporary causes limit helplessness in time, and specific causes limit… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
I don't care about being remembered. I'm not a wonderful writer or anything. This should be reserved for people who really did… — Jesus Franco Copy Share Image
“You can be a good painter if you study Cézanne's vision. Whoever dares to copy Van Gogh falls inevitably into the hell… — Zbigniew Herbert Copy Share Image
In fifth grade I started out writing simple raps and bringing them to school and everyone thought they were hot. I used… — Chris Webby Copy Share Image
Writers and artists never pay attention to advice given by their elders, quite rightly. The only worthwhile advice is the most general:… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I was at an art museum with my parents, and was quite taken with a [Vincent] Van Gogh painting. I stood admiring… — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
Art alone makes life possible – this is how radically I should like to formulate it. I would say that without art… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
One thing all the way through the show to me is boring. I don't care how great the artist is. I find… — George Benson Copy Share Image
“It's not important whether someone is a gourmet. Everyone wants to eat and knows that food is crucial to live. But everyone… — Kyung-Ran Jo Copy Share Image
In my junior year of high school, I went to a boarding school for the arts: a school called the Governor's School… — Teyonah Parris Copy Share Image
good Hobbinoll, what garres thee greete? What! hath some wolfe thy tender lambes ytorne? Or is thy bagpype broke, that soundes so… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. I'll share the formula I learned while forging my way forward as a full-time painter for… — Jack White Copy Share Image
...we will arrange for 'religion' to become a small subdepartment of ordinary life; it will be quite safe - harmless, in fact… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But the point is this Monsieur...the reason why Madame complains of you is not because of the immorality in itself; but because,… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
In our time there are many artists who do something because it is new; they see their value and their justification in… — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Copy Share Image
When art works travel from place to place, what you have is the opportunity to engage with the intellect of another person… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
We were film geeks. We devoured everything: really obscure art films, foreign films. We were the kind of guys that lived at… — Anthony Russo Copy Share Image
If you want to devote yourself to the arts, you'd better do it strictly from passion, because there is zero guarantee that… — Richard Lewis Copy Share Image
Artists are people who are subject to irrational convictions of the sacred. Baudelaire said that an artist is a child who has… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
In the fashion world, you have to make clothes to sell. You have to make clothes for the press. You have to… — Giorgio Armani Copy Share Image
![“Drue [Langlois] and I started making music together before we started the Art Lodge, so I guess musical collaboration came first. The music we made, and our performances, always had a visual component. I could never play an instrument, so these other elements compensated for that a little.” quote by Michael Dumontier](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/1bb/michael-dumontier-43177_art_drue-langlois-and-i-started-making-music_1524893.jpg)
![“I was at an art museum with my parents, and was quite taken with a [Vincent] Van Gogh painting. I stood admiring the painting for some time, and then realized that in addition to feeling moved by the beauty of the painting, I felt a little jealous of the painter.” quote by Liza Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/a47/liza-campbell-17930_admiring_i-was-at-an-art-museum-with-my-parents-a_2838224.jpg)
