Art, to me is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain. The word 'Impressionism' as applied… — Childe Hassam Copy Share Image
But my motivation was more a matter of wanting to create order - to keep track of things. All those boxes full… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Who speaks of art speaks of poetry. There is not art without a poetic aim. There is a species of emotion particular… — Edouard Vuillard Copy Share Image
Israel is a wonderful place to be an artist - a place where imagination flourishes. Israeli culture is refreshingly avant garde -… — Ryan Kavanaugh Copy Share Image
In Europe, where we have all these different forms of financing and cultural funds and systems like that, it's a good mixture… — Baran Odar Copy Share Image
Fifty years ago, it was the dream of every bohemian artist to be seen getting out of a limousine wearing blue jeans… — Brad Holland Copy Share Image
“...normally I consider nostalgia to be a toxic impulse. It is the twinned, yearning delusion that (a) the past was better (it… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
“Plots are interesting, characters are fascinating, scenery can be totally enveloping,” Morrison says, “but the real art is the deep structure, the… — John Freeman Copy Share Image
Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Aging is like enlightenment at gunpoint. Before I had cancer, I lived my life for my art. After I had cancer, I… — Anna Halprin Copy Share Image
The grey is certainly inspired by the photo-paintings, and, of course, it's related to the fact that I think grey is an… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I know I haven't always done things the right way. I'm just trying to reflect on how to make myself better, how… — Nayvadius Cash Copy Share Image
“Where did you learn to do that?” “Los Angeles High School of Performing Arts,” I said. “They taught me how to open… — C.D. Reiss Copy Share Image
You know how it is to want something. Desire builds like a little house in your head and it sits there, half-constructed… — Deb Olin Unferth Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more complex than simplification; what art takes from enigma it more than replenishes in the instantiation of itself, in the… — Nick Land Copy Share Image
There is something about the literary life that repels me, all this desperate building of castles on cobwebs, the long-drawn acrimonious struggle… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Is not art a tool we employ to peel the kitsch off life? Layer by layer art strips life bare. The more… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
[Me book is] called Stock Photographs. It was done at the Fort Worth livestock show and rodeo. I was commissioned to shoot… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
I am intrigued with combining the remnant of memories, fragments of relics and ordinary objects, with the components of technology. It's a… — Betye Saar Copy Share Image
“Epic art is founded on action, and the model of a society in which action could play out in greatest freedom was… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Now I really make the little idea from clay, and I hold it in my hand. I can turn it, look at… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
So few hip-hop artists have ever advanced. Their songs on their seventh, eighth albums sound exactly like the songs on their first… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
Atrocities are now shown in 30-second bites. Hardcore artistic horror is an expression of hating your neighbour. The gruesome imagination feeds on… — Calvin Seerveld Copy Share Image
“Mix up a little more shadow color here, then we can put us a little shadow right in there. See how you… — Bob Ross Copy Share Image
“The skill, the art of literacy is a gift. To read is to watch in your mind as a single word explodes… — Stephen Cosgrove Copy Share Image
I do think that we all draw limits and I feel like part of the work of an artist is it shouldn't… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Yet again, the more you strive for some kind of perfection or mastery—in morals, in art or in spirituality—the more you see… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
[Art] would have helped us survive in the Pleistocene - in the period, say, 1.6 million years ago until fairly recently. The… — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
I don't like most contemporary art. But I think if you talked to any person who's heavily involved in contemporary art, they'd… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
“Use art, be creative. No more war. No more children dying. A pawn that does not move in chess upsets the game.… — Lorin Morgan-Richards Copy Share Image
Every work of art (unless it is a psuedo-intellectualist work, a work already comprised in some ideology that it merely illustrates, as… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
Meditation is the art of living with yourself. It is nothing else than that, simply that: the art of being joyously alone.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Who thought it would be a good idea to undermine art in the school curriculum? Who thought studying the history of our… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Am I the only person who hopes that David Beckham has sex with Brad Pitt? I don't know who's in charge of… — Daniel Tosh Copy Share Image
Ask any rapper or singer what artist they are an expert on. What artist are they looking to emulate, and really, what… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
The perfection of an art consists in the employment of a comprehensive system of laws, commensurate to every purpose within its scope,… — John Mason Good Copy Share Image
In order to thrive as artists we need to be available to the universal flow. When we put a stopper on our… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has as yet been sung. The ancients had… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
![“Art, to me is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain. The word 'Impressionism' as applied to art has been abused, and in the general acceptance of the term has become perverted. [...] The true impressionism is realism. So many people do not observe. They…” quote by Childe Hassam](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/52a/childe-hassam-43055_acceptance_art-to-me-is-the-interpretation-of-the-i_2699324.jpg)
![“[Me book is] called Stock Photographs. It was done at the Fort Worth livestock show and rodeo. I was commissioned to shoot there by the Fort Worth Art Museum for a show. I probably shot a total of fourteen days, give or take.” quote by Garry Winogrand](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/d7d/garry-winogrand-2342_art_me-book-is-called-stock-photographs-it-w_3209289.png)
![“[Art] would have helped us survive in the Pleistocene - in the period, say, 1.6 million years ago until fairly recently. The kind of imaginative abilities that artists have and that we all have in the appreciation of art - to appreciate Jane Austen, the late quartets of Beethoven.” quote by Denis Dutton](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/4f8/denis-dutton-31778_ability_art-would-have-helped-us-survive-in-the_2609177.jpg)
