It's very hard to find artists in the history of western art who don't make portraiture ideological in some way. — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
I grew up in the Seventies; my dad is an aeronautical engineer and my mum was an English and arts teacher and… — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a doctor and go to art school, but I thought I'd regret it if I didn't act. — Kate Ashfield Copy Share Image
Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
For me, the aim of making any film like this, any film about an artist, would be to send you back to… — Kevin Macdonald Copy Share Image
The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
This new form of dialogue that is bringing us to the art to which I have dedicated my life, is rooted in… — Alicia Alonso Copy Share Image
Hunger is the teacher of the arts and the bestower of invention. -Magister artis ingenique largitor Venter — Aulus Persius Flaccus Copy Share Image
A defective voice will always preclude an artist from achieving the complete development of his art, however intelligent he may be… The… — Sarah Bernhardt Copy Share Image
Being a fan of authentic Dada, I find today's art - what I call 'Bankers' Dada' - mind-numbingly dull. The most challenging… — Billy Childish Copy Share Image
I believed in looking at people as individuals, not in groups. I hated groups; still do. And I saw particularly the university,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The wounded surgeon plies the steel That questions the distempered part; Beneath the bleeding hands we feel The sharp compassion of the… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“Just as artists who draw landscapes get down in the valley to study the mountains and go up to the mountains to… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The good work proceeds with tenacity, intention, without interruption, with an equal measure of passion and reason and it must surpass that… — Odilon Redon Copy Share Image
I'm listening to Spotify all the time and pulling in different things. I might find an artist or a song that I… — Greg Kurstin Copy Share Image
I didn't get a Bachelor's degree - I got a Bachelor's of Fine Arts, which means I didn't have to take humanities,… — Stephen Furst Copy Share Image
“The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts: and the great art of life is to have as many of them… — Stellan Moreira Copy Share Image
“Look to the happiness in my lover's eyes before you look to the beauty of any work of art I have ever… — Melissa Slayton Copy Share Image
I don't think you're selling out by allowing the masses to love your art. The only curse is that, when you get… — Scooter Braun Copy Share Image
I'm a Hip Hop artist, but I understand why some people are confused about that because a lot of people have a… — Everlast Copy Share Image
Science is concerned about quantity; religion is concerned about quality. Religion is concerned with the art of how to live life and… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I am taking 2020 a bit slow... sometimes you need to restructure and re-strategise as an artiste for things to work well. — Aishwarya Lekshmi Copy Share Image
An artist's studio should be a small space because small rooms discipline the mind and large ones distract it. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I think it's important to make art that is not that easily absorbable, that is a challenge to the authorities. — Lisa Yuskavage Copy Share Image
Most artists don't understand what they do, and I don't think we have to. Other people do that better - they understand… — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
I didn't expect my popularity to be a mainstream thing, 'cause I'd only ever been an underground artist. — Corinne Bailey Rae Copy Share Image
When I got a plaque, when I got a No. 1, a cover of 'XXL,' these are the types of things that… — Yo Gotti Copy Share Image
Every brilliant experiment, like every great work of art, starts with an act of imagination. — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Visual media is the dominant art form in our present day culture, whereas poetry is, at best, a proxy. Yet poetry and… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
An artist painting a picture should have at his side a man with a club to hit him over the head when… — John Singer Sargent Copy Share Image
I have heard it said that a complicated childhood can lead to a life in the arts. I tell you this story… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
There are a lot of new artists that I really dig and I think they really understand what R&B and Soul music… — D'wayne Wiggins Copy Share Image
“This is the one chance to learn about other things than medicine. Medicine is the art of observation and interpretation, which are… — David B. Agus Copy Share Image
“For a garden is a mistress, and gardening is a blend of all the arts, and if it is not the death… — Beverley Nichols Copy Share Image
Jiu Jitsu at the end of the day, is the art of expressing yourself honestly. Everytime you put on a Gi, you… — Saulo Ribeiro Copy Share Image
I think that the artists who don't get involved in preaching messages probably are happier - but you see, I have to… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
I always maintain that artists do not have any responsibility to do anything except cause no harm and do whatever we want… — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
I went to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art because it was the only drama school the social worker had ever heard… — Richard McCabe Copy Share Image
My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me. — Luc Ferrari Copy Share Image
I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
