I'm more compelled as an artist to see diversification than I am to keep watching an Anglo point of view in storytelling. — Joe Russo Copy Share Image
Kids bring their mothers and grandmothers to our concerts. You don't see that with a lot of artists today. — Kevin Olusola Copy Share Image
Art collectors are pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. What matters and survives is the art. — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater. — Kanye West Copy Share Image
“Fuck art. I’ve gotta get out of the basement. I’ve gotta see the world. I’ve gotta make a difference.” — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
Poverty and loneliness could be seen as a liberation from strivings to become rich and popular. — Donald Richie Copy Share Image
Even this artistic life, which we know is not real life, appears to me to be so alive and so vital that… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I honestly don't feel that it's my music that's under-appreciated. I think that it's me that's under-appreciated. As an artist, period. — Ne-Yo Copy Share Image
It never occurred to me that artists, of all people, have to be reminded that instinct is more important than tradition, but… — Lexi Alexander Copy Share Image
Provided we can escape from the museums we carry around inside us, provided we can stop selling ourselves tickets to the galleries… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
It is a nostalgic time right now, and photographs actively promote nostalgia. Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
When we look at the arts and letters in America, especially if we look at poetry, and poetry set to music, this… — Thomas Hampson Copy Share Image
Movies are the greatest art form the world has come up with yet. If you don't use them to the full extent… — Jay Baruchel Copy Share Image
“the translator says that a sentence is born into this world neither good nor bad, and that to establish its character is… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
It is central to Christian living that we should celebrate the goodness of creation, ponder its present brokenness, and, insofar as we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The reason I make art is because I get to make a choice about who I am, what I do, and what… — Ben Sollee Copy Share Image
There's no need to put a dumb picture of us on the album cover. We always look at ourselves and think, 'Wow,… — Matthew Ramsey Copy Share Image
Cats are anthropomorphised in art because they are so laid back that you automatically attribute human thoughts and feelings to them. — Jim Davis Copy Share Image
Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it… — Lake Bell Copy Share Image
I do love fashion as a mode of self expression, and I appreciate it for being wearable art. — Melissa Leong Copy Share Image
Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic? — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Everything I do through my art is a way to get my thumb on top of what's happened to me in the… — Ethel Cain Copy Share Image
The artist is the person who makes life more interesting or beautiful, more understandable or mysterious, or probably, in the best sense,… — George Bellows Copy Share Image
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The reason music became so powerful to our generation is that it's art you can consume in your car, and we were… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
I didn't make any money out of my art until I was in my 40s, but it preserved my sanity and my… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
It is not possible to build on negative emotions. Genuine literature will come only when we replace hatred for man with love… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Certain dressmakers desire to pass for an artist. I have one ambition: that is to have good taste. — Jean Patou Copy Share Image
I definitely hope that I'm inspiring a lot of different female artists to run with the boys. — Kodie Shane Copy Share Image
To say that secular means irreligious implies that all the arts and sciences are irreligious, and is very like saying that all… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The history of art is filled with people who did not live long enough to enjoy a sympathetic public, and their misery… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
I'm very crafty! One time I made a television set out of a cardboard box - Everybody thought it was a lark!… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I did love 'The Artist.' I've seen it four times, and every time I see it, it gets better and better. — Robert Osborne Copy Share Image
What you might consider a bad work can be of extreme interest to an artist in ways which are not about its… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
he line has almost become a work of art in itself; one can not play with it when the representation of objects… — Theo van Doesburg Copy Share Image
I cannot expect even my own art to provide all of the answers, only to hope it keeps asking the right questions. — Grace Hartigan Copy Share Image
Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else's personality, that is not art. — Bennie Wallace Copy Share Image
“Specifically, artists and the powerful have the ability to turn ordinary lives into dreams.” — Psixomaxaristw Copy Share Image
Paintings, like dreams, have a life of their own and I have always painted very much the way I dream. — Leonor Fini Copy Share Image
