Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that. — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
“Young lovers seek perfection. Old lovers learn the art of sewing shreds together. And of seeing beauty in a multiplicity of patches.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's obviously funny to be a meme, so I could be down with it in that regard, but it also belittles one's… — Grimes Copy Share Image
Comics, at least in periodical form, exist almost entirely free of any pretense; the critical world of art hardly touches them, and… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
The most important factors for any artist, is the honesty towards one's craft, hard work and passion that guides them. — Anupriya Goenka Copy Share Image
“It's neither and it's both. That's the perfect kind of art. Labels only detract from the artist's intention.” — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
An artist who stops making art is committing suicide. Get off the couch and start painting again. — Ramandeep Singh Copy Share Image
It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
My education was dominated by modernist thinkers and artists who taught me that the supreme imperative was courage to face the awful… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
We may talk what we please," he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, "of lilies, and lions rampant,… — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
“Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains; and thou too art wont to desire such things very… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Fall in love or fall in hate. Get inspired or be depressed. Ace a test or flunk a class. Make babies or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I learned the tricks... If you want to do academic things, you can do them. It is not difficult. Yet it is… — Isamu Noguchi Copy Share Image
Art exists through the act of making. It has to somehow be made manifest to another person. It has to do with… — Philip Taaffe Copy Share Image
My mother is an artist, and I have a strong visual sense. I almost always choose the cover art for my books.… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
When you study our greatest artists, you will find that they give us a key to understand how to deal with each… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
In art we are once again able to do all the things we have forgotten; we are able to walk on water;… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Gauguin says that when sailors have to move a heavy load or raise an anchor, they all sing together to keep them… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
If you change the rules on what controls you... you will change the rules on what you can control. — Guy Ritchie Copy Share Image
Many with careers in the art world are intimidated, and afraid to speak out against the gospels of Modernist theory. — Kara Ross Copy Share Image
If you think about corporate legal work that's done today, some part of it is art and then some of it is… — Justin Kan Copy Share Image
I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization. — Tony Hawk Copy Share Image
Your kids might feel more apt to try some art of their own after viewing contemporary works that are far less intimidating… — Lynda Resnick Copy Share Image
Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit. — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
That's the most important part of all the music I produce: making sure the artist is bringing themselves out in the music. — Mike Will Made It Copy Share Image
Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one. — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
I don't mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I'm not one of those artists who's going to… — Don Henley Copy Share Image
We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Color helps to express light, not the physical phenomenon, but the only light that really exists, that in the artist's brain. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
New Wave art was the rage of the eighties. Now it's exhibited in oldies-but-goodies museums, usually in black-and-pink frames. — Brad Holland Copy Share Image
We did what we wanted to do, made it work, and made our own rules - and the best art we could… — Kevin Abstract Copy Share Image
Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life, and from their hands it comes in fair, articulate forms to… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
I was always involved in the arts from a young age. I started studying classical piano at age four as a student… — Monica Raymund Copy Share Image
An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art. — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
“The art of a sincere and heartfelt apology is one of the greatest skills you will ever learn.” — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share Image
Summoning artists to participate In the august occasions of the state Seems something artists ought to celebrate. Today is for my cause… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
The value of the arts cannot be measured by its ability to preserve life but rather to enhance existence. — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
Doing something that is your passion, in my case related to music and art, being a performer playing shows around the world,… — Lauren Jauregui Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as making art. I do what I do because I want to, because painting is the best… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
Ricky Martin just kind of opened a big door, but it's always been around. Latin artists have always been there, but some… — Luis Fonsi Copy Share Image
