Each period of a civilisation creates an art that is specific in it and which we will never see reborn. To try… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
I enjoy trying to inspire myself. I enjoy the artistic side of everything. Music, art, fashion, everything. I just like to be… — Chris Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think as an artist you tend to go toward the heartbreak and the sadness because those are the deepest and… — Tim McGraw Copy Share Image
“The landscape artist had captured a distant prospect of an ancient hillside, surmounted by cyprus and a few tumbled columns; the mood… — Stephanie Barron Copy Share Image
I just want to be the biggest artist that I can be, and I want to make a difference. I feel like… — Justin Bieber Copy Share Image
It is my dream to create an art which is filled with balance, purity and calmness, freed from a subject matter that… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
So, I mean, there's still vast swaths of the city that are suffering from a lack of jobs and poor housing and… — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
“Mailer famously labeled writing the spooky art. He was right. There's a lot of frontal lobe blather, a lot of pencil-sharpening and… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
Those who work in a preconceived style, deliberately turning their backs on nature, miss the truth. An artist must recognize, when he… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I certainly am one of those people who is incredibly privileged to have an art career, which happened out of luck. Then… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
When faced with the inevitable, you always have a choice… As I learned during my liberal arts education, any symbol can have,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I do think that copyrights and intellectual property are important - it's important to be able to keep people from making verbatim… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
Kitsch is the daily art of our time, as the vase or the hymn was for earlier generations. For the sensibility it… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
We teach the karate methodology, bringing back the history of the martial art, the attacks that stopped being used when the martial… — Lyoto Machida Copy Share Image
“The thing about being an artist," Dad said, folding his newspaper and setting it down on the table, "is that there are… — Leila Sales Copy Share Image
A creation made right after another. Each one made either by the neat strokes of an artist hand, or by the sloppy… — Music Copy Share Image
“The right art," cried the Master, "is purposeless, aimless! The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for… — Eugen Herrigel Copy Share Image
I graduated from Wesleyan University with a B.A. in art. I was really headed toward an architecture degree, but when I did… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
I began to feel that I lived on a higher plane than the skeptics of the ground; one that was richer because… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
We don't have the choice to control our emotions, but we do have the power to educate our emotions. And we do… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Freedom, individualism and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: The true artist is a man… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so… — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
“Recognize things when they are at their best, in their season, and know how to enjoy them then. The works of nature… — Baltasar Gracián Copy Share Image
An artist who wants to transpose a composition onto a larger canvas must conceive it over again in order to preserve its… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
The art of leading, in operations large or small, is the art of dealing with humanity, of working diligently on behalf of… — Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall Copy Share Image
“Every brush stroke on the canvas, every dab of color introduced, the fine textures impressed in the paint—this accumulation of many small… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
There's a lot of pressure to release a game early. In Syndicate's case there was a lot of pressure from us on… — Peter Molyneux Copy Share Image
I practice the artist's golden rule. I wouldn't want somebody telling me how to finish my painting, I'm not going to tell… — Wayne White Copy Share Image
When you look at a work of art, you don't see a cover for something else; you see revelation. If you're an… — Deborah Solomon Copy Share Image
“Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“There was nothing particularly striking about them except that they were artists of the kind that talk. Everyone knows of the talking… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
My mum was one of those people who really wasn't allowed to be an artist, because she worked in a factory and… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
In our culture, imitation-based experience dominates reality-based experience. I find this an awful thing. But there are artists who know from the… — Richard Tuttle Copy Share Image
“What genuine painters do is to reveal the underlying psychological and spiritual conditions of their relationship to their world; thus in the… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
I really enjoyed Eddie Bracken. He told me a great story. He did The Odd Couple on Broadway, replacing Art Carney, and… — Brent Spiner Copy Share Image
What I am trying to do is something different - an effect of reality, but what some fools call Impressionism, a term… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
As great a picture can be made as one's mental capacity-no greater. Art cannot be taught; it must be self-inspiration, though the… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
The job of an artist is to entertain and not get involved with politics. We give the people in the countries we… — Engelbert Humperdinck Copy Share Image
