The nudes of art are not so distant from pornography as prudish pedants pretend. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
picture, n. A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Mozart is a human incarnation of the divine force of creation. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Growing old is partly an inescapable process of accommodation and adjustment. — Kathe Kollwitz Copy Share Image
I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration. — Freddie Mercury Copy Share Image
Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them. — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist. — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
From an art perspective, I dont know how you get better than Beetlejuice. In terms of originality and a look, its 100% unique. — Michael Keaton Copy Share Image
Before Lil Jon and The Eastside Boyz, nobody ever said, 'I'm a crunk artist. I make crunk music.' — Lil Jon Copy Share Image
The first race of mankind used to dispute, as our ordinary people do now-a-days, in a kind of wild logic, uncultivated by… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I subscribe to no religion. But I believe that in the creation of art, there can be moments of God. — Andrea Riseborough Copy Share Image
“Solitary walks are great for getting new ideas. It's like you're in a video game and you pick up idea coins on… — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
Evil is done without effort, naturally, it's destiny; good is always the product of skill. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Artists have their very distinctive voices that theyve developed over a long period. It takes time to find your voice, your vocabulary… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
There's a real power in collaboration. I've found that in collaborating while making art, it takes you to a place that you… — Robin Standefer Copy Share Image
What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the… — Anselm Kiefer Copy Share Image
Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“She was rare, few and far between She suspected he would be as well And the thought of two rare, few and… — Maquita Donyel Irvin Copy Share Image
I am adamant that we must not cut back on funding of the teaching of the arts in the schools: music, painting,… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
The reality of recording, it's one of the most intimate things that an artist ever does because if you do it right,… — Scott Borchetta Copy Share Image
“He glanced down at the movie poster art that had been skillfully airbrushed not his custom apron, thanks to Lani's interesting assistant,… — Donna Kauffman Copy Share Image
To brutally summarise a lot of scholarly texts, contemporary art is made possible by neoliberal capital, plus the Internet, biennials, art fairs,… — Hito Steyerl Copy Share Image
What strip mining is to nature the art market has become to culture. — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
...music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists. — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
My whole family is very artistic - my uncles are all actors and theatre directors. — Morena Baccarin Copy Share Image
There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure. — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
I was exposed to the arts, but there was no one in my family who was an artist. — Marisa Tomei Copy Share Image
To support myself as a kid, I was a model at art schools around Boston. — Rene Ricard Copy Share Image
All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
People have experiences in art museums today that they used to have in church. — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
