In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation. — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
The artist makes his living by pretending, by putting it in a meaningful hole though no such holes exist. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Is photography an art? There is no point in trying to find out if it is an art. Art is old-fashioned. We… — Man Ray Copy Share Image
I am always looking for ideas, whether it is in art on the street or in my world travels. It comes to… — Colleen Atwood Copy Share Image
You have a talent that comes from inside you, from your heart, not your fingers. What you have can’t ever go away.… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Bruce Lee only played himself. Chuck Norris is a martial artist that does acting. I want to be an actor that does… — Leo Howard Copy Share Image
“She wanted children and considered having them a "privilege," but art also "was a privilege given to me and I had to… — Jan Greenberg Copy Share Image
When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity,… — Moses Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
I first came up with the idea for the colour-chart pictures back in 1966, and my preoccupation with the topic culminated in… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Art criticism, I would say, is about the most ungrateful form of 'elevated' writing I know of. It may also be one… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
“He was an artist of rare ability, a self-taught artist, without teachers or schools, principles and rules, carried away only by the… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
I think Ang Lee is a very, very talented director. He used martial arts to talk about love and girl, you know...… — Jet Li Copy Share Image
I became much more interested in plot when I really didn't consider myself a writer anymore. When I was in an art… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
Actually, it's as if [Superman is] more real than we are. We writers come and go, generations of artists leave their interpretations,… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
“He gave us music that reached into the ear like a lover's tongue and changed the color of our feelings. He presented… — Katie Waitman Copy Share Image
Working with Robin Williams, and Bob Hopkins, and Dustin Hoffman and you're talking about 'gods,' really, in our industry. You look at… — Dante Basco Copy Share Image
“Art is the reason I get up in the morning, but the definition ends there. It doesn't seem fair that I'm living… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
I've always loved collecting arts and crafts - I have pieces by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and William Morris at home in east… — Jonathan Anderson Copy Share Image
I guess what I want to say to us artists and entrepreneurs is that conventional yardsticks of success don't apply to all… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Men view discussion as the art of trying to keep their wives quiet, women see it as the art of preventing their… — Fritz Eckhardt Copy Share Image
The idea of making [conceptual] art was not a good way to approach things... Instead I saw myself as trying to make… — Sandy Skoglund Copy Share Image
You want to throw yourself in as many uncomfortable places as possible, if you want to build muscles in uncomfortable parts of… — Hamish Linklater Copy Share Image
Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
We are the ORIGIN of our art, its homeland. Viewed this way, ORIGINALITY is the process of remaining true to ourselves. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Art is not there simply to be understood. ... It is more the sense of an indication or suggestion. — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
At first, one sees the person who is modelling; but little by little, all of the possible sculptures that could be made… — Alberto Giacometti Copy Share Image
I have some tracks and songs written for future collaboration, and I'm happy to work with artists who have the right voice… — Suga Copy Share Image
I think every artist needs a rule that's stupid but that helps him, like a deadline would. — Thomas Mars Copy Share Image
The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey. — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Energy is eternal delight; and from the earliest times human beings have tried to imprison it in some durable hieroglyphic. It is… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
While an artist can choose whether or not to be responsive and responsible towards other human beings, by definition a designer must… — Paola Antonelli Copy Share Image
As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
I never think about myself as an artist working in this time. I think about it in macro. — Frank Ocean Copy Share Image
Much of life becomes background, but it is the province of art to throw buckets of light into the shadows and make… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter. — Petrarch Copy Share Image
In Portland, there are so many trained artists and technicians, there's an enormous talent base. And it's not like second-stringers. — Dean Devlin Copy Share Image
The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
What is LOVE ? IT MATH, iT'Z A PROBLEM IN hISTORY, IT'Z A BATTLE iN sCIENCE, IT'Z A REACTION iN aRT ,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times. — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
I think Amy is a really difficult example. With any artist, none of us understands what it's like having the world's media… — Nicki Chapman Copy Share Image