Every creative act involves a new innocence or perception, liberated from the cataract of accepted belief. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
I'm trying to create flesh architecture. I aim to get a sculptural feel for groups of bodies, as well as create performance… — Spencer Tunick Copy Share Image
For my art GCSE, I did a screen print of the Queen's head that was basically an Andy Warhol rip-off, but I… — Alexa Chung Copy Share Image
The Best of the artist's art, which will one day be in a Museum wall, the Painting that sets the artist apart… — Kelly Miller Copy Share Image
The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
As an artist you actually do have to make a choice to be an outsider. If you're an outsider you have the… — Connie Nielsen Copy Share Image
I was selling bric-a-brac in Portobello and Camden Market. I love objects. But I was embarrassed by the idea of collecting, so… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
I'm a firm believer that actors take to work who they aren't at home. People show their other self in their art… — Robin Tunney Copy Share Image
“In a poem, melody, or picture, we are forced with a mystery: quality in the metaphysical sense of the word. How could… — Alija Izetbegović Copy Share Image
Our thoughts, our language, are always at a distance from whatever they're trying to describe. We have other kinds of languages, like… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
“They stood, a family, and walked out of the mall, into the sunlight, seeking to rearrange the shape of their surroundings, to… — Kevin Wilson Copy Share Image
I dislike the word 'emerging artist.' Emerging connotes to me an alligator coming up from the water. I consider all artists to… — Jack White Copy Share Image
“Reflection is time sensitive; and with the realization that the 'present' and 'future' can be altered, it is also purposeful, for we… — Patricia H. Graham Copy Share Image
Pop music, across its countless iterations, is a vast, amazing, thrilling art form. All life is in it. It stands for itself.… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
You know, martial arts is all about respect and discipline and it's always been about that. But again, people are starting to… — Alexander Volkanovski Copy Share Image
I wonder a lot about making things meaningful. You want to do meaningful work and make art, but you're making records, which… — Doseone Copy Share Image
I think the Macintosh was created by a group of people who felt that ah there wasn't a strict vision between sort… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Then sculpture and her sister arts revived; stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
You must thank the gods for art, those of us who have been fortunate enough to stumble onto this means of venting… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
“Art invariably grows out of a period when, in general, the artist admires his own nation and wants to win its approval.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Strange as it may seem, there is nothing in which a young and beautiful female appears to more advantage than in the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The most inspiring thing as an artist is when someone says, 'I believe in you'; sometimes that works even better than Grammys. — Kristian Bush Copy Share Image
Gutzon Borglum, the individual, is nothing. Art, expression, freedom are everything. On this I stand or fall. — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
Luckily, with 'Insecure,' we have really great writers who get it and work hard to give Kelli layers for me to explore… — Natasha Rothwell Copy Share Image
People might look at you a bit funny, but it's okay. Artists are allowed to be a bit different. — Bob Ross Copy Share Image
What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
How many attempts, now happy, now unhappy!... He who has not felt the difficulties of his art does nothing that counts. — Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin Copy Share Image
And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter. — Beatrice Wood Copy Share Image
I was brought up feeling that art is a very important part of one's life. It's something that I not only enjoy,… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
I was born knowing that I had to be a painter, because my father, an art historian, always presented painting as the… — Domenico Gnoli Copy Share Image
Beauty inspires me - beauty in nature, people, and art. Smells and fragrances too. I know it sounds weird, but I'm a… — Maria Canals Barrera Copy Share Image
No shade to the other artists in Chicago... but if you got confidence in yourself and you know you're Number One, say… — Lil Durk Copy Share Image
The writers or artists I write about are not necessarily those I care most about (Shakespeare is still my favourite writer) but… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
In fact, every day I'll read a chapter of some art book. I don't know why. It's just a habit. — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
“Architecture is an art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this enviroment produces well being” — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
I'm always very proud of Moroccan artistes doing well and achieving international recognition. — Nora Fatehi Copy Share Image
The artist, even when he imitates nature, always feels himself to be not a slave but a demigod. — Soseki Natsume Copy Share Image
Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I like to get rid of things; I don't collect many things. But I do keep great photography and art books. — Emily Weiss Copy Share Image
Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
