The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint. — Arshile Gorky Copy Share Image
An underexplored reason why nostalgic art is worthwhile is that it influences the way the past is remembered. — Porter Robinson Copy Share Image
No artist from my industry has ever supported me, but all technicians have been on my side. — Shilpa Shinde Copy Share Image
To me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it. — Noah Taylor Copy Share Image
I feel more like an artist than a pop star, and I accidentally fell into what I do. Everything was just an… — Roisin Murphy Copy Share Image
“I shouldn't be held responsible for my acts, since I was a political idiot, an artist who could not distinguish between reality… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Every single artist is inspired by artists who have come before them. It's sort of a fun, beautiful sharing process. — Olivia Rodrigo Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most demanding trick in all of art is to know ways that are going to capture the attention of an… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
As there is no worldly gain without some loss, so there is no worldly loss without some gain; if thou hast lost… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
I was totally ignored for a while... that's a hazard of signing with a small company who say how small they are… — Phoebe Snow Copy Share Image
The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics… — John Scott Copy Share Image
I joined the Young Philanthropists Circle at the Musee Des Beaux Arts, we have little events every month where you learn about… — Tessa Virtue Copy Share Image
Quality cinema is not changing anything, everything is the same. The artistes and other people involved in these films get some recognition… — Asrani Copy Share Image
“Marx was troubled by the question of why ancient Greek art retained an ‘eternal charm’, even though the social conditions which produced… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“It sees post-rock as an archipelago: islands that may speak different languages and are probably only on nodding terms with one another.… — Jeanette Leech Copy Share Image
Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things. — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
I've always enjoyed watching makeup artists - but I'd like to go to the extreme and do monster makeup in movies. — Niki Taylor Copy Share Image
The life of an artist is not all glamorous. It's a lot of work. A lot of people think that it's very… — Selena Copy Share Image
“Well, nothing helps an artist’s career more than a little death and obscurity, I always say.” — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Sometimes I love the marriage of art and commerce; I love Donna Summer; I like the Rolling Stones. — Moby Copy Share Image
I think nearly every artist continually wants to reach the edge of nothingness - the point where you can’t go any further. — Harry Callahan Copy Share Image
I remember going to Europe and one makeup artist made me look pink, then she tried to correct it but turned me… — Kelly Rowland Copy Share Image
How rare that an artist should make something which forces us to think, and encourages us to stop and think, to question… — Martin Firrell Copy Share Image
Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater. — Bill Tilden Copy Share Image
As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
On this hapless earth There 's small sincerity of mirth, And laughter oft is but an art To drown the outcry of… — Hartley Coleridge Copy Share Image
As both a fine artist and a graphic designer, I specialize in the visual presentation of words. — John Langdon Copy Share Image
Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do. — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
“An artist is ultimately remembered for creating an uncompromised body of work. Uncompromised, unfettered and fiercely passionate.” — Nidhie sharma Copy Share Image
One of the best feelings that I've experienced is being surrounded by artists and thinkers who inspire you. — Fred Hechinger Copy Share Image
As an artist, you want to have an experience. What you need to experience changes over the course of your life because… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered… — Susan Glaspell Copy Share Image
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“I am full of madness, i can't hide my fire I burn for the things i love, my soul will never retire.” — Nikki Rowe Copy Share Image
One puts into one's art what one has not been capable of putting into one's existence. It is because he was unhappy… — Henry de Montherlant Copy Share Image
An artist is a person who lives in the triangle which remains after the angle which we may call common sense has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A war, or any wild-goose chase, is, as the vulgar use the phrase, a lucky turn-up of patronage for the minister, whose… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Since 'concepts' are closely bound up with language, concept art is a kind of art of which the material is language. — Henry Flynt Copy Share Image
