A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings? Never! They are my letters,… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Like this if you think graffiti is a beautiful artwork, or Unlike this if you think graffiti is just shitty vandalism . — Mariana Copy Share Image
“Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.” — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
Whether art is music or cinema or whatever, it really is art only when it is in touch with the people -… — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
“Later he would say that the Church led him to God, and LSD led him to universe. He also said that art… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
When I make my work, I am making what I hope to be something functional - a space for individual contemplation and… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
A peculiar work in any art must not be too hastily judged. New styles have to create new tastes. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
It's the job of the artist to take something that everybody thinks they know about, they've made a decision about, they will… — Phyllida Lloyd Copy Share Image
My parents were very, very good about not separating us as kids from their adult friends. So on any given night, we'd… — Mike D Copy Share Image
What really matters is that there is so much faith and love and kindliness which we can share with and provoke in… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
I sometimes set myself thinking and imagining that I find amongst men but one single art or science, and that is drawing… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
I don't think you can create art out of anger; it has to come out of some form of understanding. You have… — Faith Ringgold Copy Share Image
“I can hear cars on the freeway, it’s like a distant sea sludged with people while over my other shoulder, far over… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I don't have a burning desire to go out and document anything. It just happens when it happens. It's not a conscious… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
“I could write about how I feel when I sing, write and create something from heartbreak, sorrow, sadness or just simply nothingness.… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“I wish art was like money in that the more I made, the more interest it developed and plentiful it became. Money… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm a secondary artist, a kind of a conduit for the writer, and if it's a good writer, then… — Mamie Gummer Copy Share Image
As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start. — Garth Ennis Copy Share Image
The art of ignoring is one of the accomplishments of every well-bred girl, so carefully instilled that at last she can even… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Famine and disaster, right there in front of you, and the more you watch, the less you do. — Jackson Browne Copy Share Image
Lots of men are like that, their artistic leanings never go beyond a weakness for shapely thighs. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul'… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
I have the kind of brain that works better with a lot of information and I think that's not unusual in the… — Jerrika Hinton Copy Share Image
Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We must remember, however, that art is of value only to the extent that it speaks to us. It might be a… — Kakuzō Okakura Copy Share Image
I only know one way to sing, and thats me. I cant morph who I am as an artist into two different… — Renee Rapp Copy Share Image
Rather than say art is art and life is life, I like to say that they're joined and inextricable. — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
Clothing is . . . an exercise in memory. It makes me explore the past: how did I feel when I wore… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
I'm always interested in people who are not orientated in art circles to become part of it. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
There is one thing that all true spirituality has in common, whether that spirituality is derived from faith, from science, from nature… — Andrew Schneider Copy Share Image
Being an artist is this kind of occupation in which you have to make people care about your obsession. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
When I am on stage, I am just an honest artiste who tries to let people know me, not only as a… — Jubin Nautiyal Copy Share Image
“It seemed to him that the hand was not able to attain to the perfection of art in carrying out the things… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“When I golf, I use just enough strokes to create a masterpiece, like I'm a painter. The score I post up would… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Without moving beyond a mere copy, there is no artistry, no originality or artistic advancement; only mechanics. — Jennifer Young Copy Share Image
Can you believe that, to say that ours is the only path when the fundamental thing in art is freedom! In art,… — Rufino Tamayo Copy Share Image
That's important for artists to remember: some people would like to be spokespeople, but others would like their art to speak. — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important. — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
To me, the most important artists in my career are Arcangel and Balvin. Arcangel gave me the push, the respect in the… — Bad Bunny Copy Share Image
