An abstract painting need in 50 years by no means look "abstract" any longer. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
A civilization is as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamt by artists. — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
All art is image making and all image making is the creation of substitutes. — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
There's not a lot of art forms where you can control your presentation and your ideas. — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated with the strong emotional ties that music can have. A song can bring you back to a place… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
“Opium had artistic significance, you know. Picasso smoked. He said the scent of opium was the least stupid smell in the world,… — John Baxter Copy Share Image
As an artist, I didn't think I was gonna get an Oscar. I've never said this, but I've never looked at it… — O'Shea Jackson, Jr Copy Share Image
I was poor. I struggled big time, living hand to mouth so I could be the kind of artist I want to… — Natalie Prass Copy Share Image
Making art has never been a mystery to me. It's never been something that's very difficult. — Richard Prince Copy Share Image
“When art is not only a matter of inspiring colors and techniques but a permanent questioning of life.” — Latino Professional Network Copy Share Image
I think art teaches us how to feel, what our parameters can be, what sensations can be like; it makes you more… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
“Degenerates are not always criminals, anarchists, and pronounced lunatics; They are often authors and artists.” — Max Nordau Copy Share Image
“Let us consider two important factors, the two poles of the creation of art: the artist on one hand, and on the… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Shakespeare said that art is a mirror held up to nature. And that’s what it is. The nature is your nature, and… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“It followed that every act, whether the finding of a new proof for a complex mathematical problem or a twist of vision… — Jon Courtenay Grimwood Copy Share Image
“Now let's talk about dreams. Yes. Dreams. I believe that dreams are one of the best thing in the world. It's so… — Happy Positivity Copy Share Image
“I look over at my hero shelf and see Philip Levine, Rainer Maria Rilke, Virginia Woolf, Shunryu Suzuki, Adrienne Rich, Pablo Neruda,… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
An enormous amount of art and literature is erotic in the sense that it stimulates vague sexual emotions, but it has no… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
The arts are essential to any complete national life. The State owes it to itself to sustain and encourage them….Ill fares the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what… — Hokusai Copy Share Image
We will always need to be reminded that we are human. Art gives us that. — Carmen Cusack Copy Share Image
I'm using my art to comment on what I see. You don't have to agree with it. — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
As a musician, I have always refrained from criticizing another artist. — Jill Sobule Copy Share Image
God is the artist, nature is his canvas, and I'm just the admirer of his work. — Elizabeth Homp Copy Share Image
O delicious kiss, Why thou so sudden art gone? Lost in the moment thou art won? — John Wolcot Copy Share Image
Sometimes a person has to stop talking about art for a moment and take a look around. — Sarah Schulman Copy Share Image
The point of art is to shake people's minds and talk about real social issues. — Ariana DeBose Copy Share Image
Financial crisis is the moment of truth for real collectors and true artists. — Victor Pinchuk Copy Share Image
Before, I was more concerned with getting on the radio, like many young artists. — Kenny Chesney Copy Share Image
We have to remind people how important arts are. People just don't see it. — Steven Michael Quezada Copy Share Image
Train yourself: It is not by accident an artist becomes a good painter. — Sergei Bongart Copy Share Image
