Art is foremost a state of mind, and only secondarily a problem of form. — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
I'm not just a country artist. I've got so any sides to me and the music I write. — Hank Williams III Copy Share Image
Every artist has to grow, and has to challenge themselves with a new form of expression — Terrence Howard Copy Share Image
I always dreamt of becoming an artist in Paris. Thanks to the Army, it happened. — William Klein Copy Share Image
“Life and Art, once entwined, can quickly become inseparable” — David Bayles Art and Fear Observations on the Perils and Rewards of Artmaking Copy Share Image
“They overlook the possibility that brainstorming can be a skill, an art, more like playing the piano than tying your shoes.” — Thomas Kelley Copy Share Image
“No one ever claimed that creating art was simple. But they failed to mention the mess.” — F.K. Preston Copy Share Image
As an allegorical art, then, photography would represent our desire to fix the transitory, the ephemeral, in a stable and stabilizing image. — Craig Owens Copy Share Image
If we doubt the power of literature and art to civilise, how come no one has ever been mugged by a person… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
In the end, art is small beer. The really serious things are earning one's living so as not to be a parasite… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That… — Helen Frankenthaler Copy Share Image
If an artist and a scientist have a common point, it is probably in the need for some kind of imaginative thinking… — Catherine Yass Copy Share Image
I want to put a stamp on music because all the best, all the people that I love or the best artists… — Lola Young Copy Share Image
I just see in pop culture, music, visual art, books, etc., a real hunger for the new and different, and I think… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
I want the strangeness and weirdness and incomprehensibility of life that art can reflect so well, but I want it to feel… — Dario Robleto Copy Share Image
I want art to affect the viewer and for the viewer to take it away to enhance, embrace, and elevate life. That's… — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You don't need as much as some of the other artists but you do sing with your eyes close and it gives… — Maxine Powell Copy Share Image
The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“An artist who painted a face was now 'playing with the idea of portraiture,' or 'exploring push-pull aesthetics,' or toying with contradictions… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
That's because only a real artist knows the actual anatomy of the terrible or the physiology of fear - the exact sort… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We had lost the art of communication - but not, alas, the gift of speech. — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
“He who wars against the arts, wars not against nations, but against all mankind.” — Arthur Urbane Dilley Copy Share Image
“My mother had a mantra: musical instrument, foreign language, martial art.” — E.L. James Copy Share Image
Martial arts have been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. — Brandon Lee Copy Share Image
I don't need art to tell me people are assholes. I can just go into the streets. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
