As an artist I would like to eliminate the symbolic pretty much, for black is interesting not as a color but as… — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
... the art of politics is to be ahead of your time--about six months will do it. Any more than that, and… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
A man cannot understand the art he is studying if he only looks for the end result without taking the time to… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
“But I want to paint you. That’s how artists come to possess things beyond their means, can you understand that?” — Lakambini A. Sitoy Copy Share Image
Whatever the Left touches-- the arts; the economy; health care; the soul; religion-- it destroys or damages — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
“There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry - architecture being the least banal derivative of the latter.” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Self-deceit is a most damaging trait. The remedy, for an artist, is to paint a self-portrait! — Scott Kahn Copy Share Image
Drama is the most difficult of all arts. In it two things are to be satisfied - first, the ears, and second,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I think the first duty of all art, including fiction of any kind, is to entertain. That is to say, to hold… — Poul Anderson Copy Share Image
The criterion of true beauty is, that it increases in examination; of false, that it lessens. There is something, therefore, in true… — George Grenville Copy Share Image
If you just go get one of these little fine arts degrees or writing program degrees, it never forces you to confront… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“The idea of attention or contemplation, of looking carefully at something and holding it before the mind, may be conveyed early on… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
I think aerobatic flying is athletic. I don't do aerobatic flying, but I would put that in a category of a sport.… — John Travolta Copy Share Image
“An illustration is an enlargement, and interpretation of the text, so that the reader will comprehend the words better. As an artist,… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
The only logical thing I can think of is that I knew there were such things as artists, and I knew there… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
Connecting with fans online can be the make or break or some artists, and I think that's a bit dangerous. — Jade Bird Copy Share Image
Artists... do not need the applause or condemnation of the critics, the ideas of other artists, or the demands of the collectors. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations. — James Taylor Copy Share Image
I think it was a matter of, like, I'm not going to have my kids in these wild streets. Both my twin… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Dear disgruntled artists: the key to success isn't kicking down the door; it's building your own. — Brian Celio Copy Share Image
You know, there are artists who are 35 and up that still make rap and that still works for them. I don't… — Drake Copy Share Image
You can't control life. It doesn't wind up perfectly. Only-only art you can control. Art and masturbation. Two areas in which I… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
When you deal with Alan Ball, you're dealing with a person who is a genius in terms of how art imitates life. — Nelsan Ellis Copy Share Image
As I walked up the imposing steps of the Royal Academy, I came fact to face with Alwen Hughes. She looked just… — Rolf Harris Copy Share Image
...she (the artist, the writer) doesn't wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
There is an idea that a mind is wasted on the arts unless it makes you good in math or science. There… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I think art is not an ornament or refinement at the fringes of human intelligence, I think it's at the center. It's… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
For my career, I want to be able to do projects that have serious context to them or that make me grow… — Ashton Sanders Copy Share Image
I don't think the world is particularly responsive to - our world, the culture we are in, to art right now. — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
Every true artist has been inspired more by the beauty of lines and color and the relationships between them than by the… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
I would like to tell you that I wrote my book to push back artistic boundaries. But I didn't. I wrote it… — Gideon Defoe Copy Share Image
You might curb your magnanimity, and be more of an artist, and load every rift of your subject with ore. — John Keats Copy Share Image
“The secret to making yourself stronger is to absorb the strength of the people around you—energy begets energy.” — Adachi Zenko Copy Share Image
Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
It's only when an artist becomes a master that they are fully able to express themselves. — Carolina Kostner Copy Share Image
“After all, what is art if not a true image and a criterion for the perfection of the human soul?” — Dörthe Binkert Copy Share Image
That's the fantasy dream project, to collaborate with someone who preaches the gospel of art through music. — Frances Stark Copy Share Image
The metaphor of the subterranean is at work in a lot of Northwest writers and artists. Zooming in closer and closer and… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
“Gratitude was a lost art, she felt. People accepted things, took them as their right, and had forgotten how to give proper… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
