I think when people talk about art imitating life, you're in real time. — Mike Colter Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as an artist. I'm just a guy who can write. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Things were sort of Bohemian in Montmartre - one lived, one painted, one was a painter - all that doesn't mean anything,… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
If you're going to paint from photos, make sure you've painted for at least ten years. — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work. — Hugh Newell Jacobsen Copy Share Image
“start thinking of yourself as an artist and your life as a work-in-progress.” — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see in a few lines whether a man is really… — Eero Saarinen Copy Share Image
If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist. — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
Painting is a self-disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself. — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
So that’s what art is, for the artist,” said Crake. “An empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I'm not sure that an art career would have any benefit for me; I'm not sure it's what I want. I don't… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
“To assess the success of the Sistine, we must think in terms of its history, its prime architects, and its contemporary relevance.… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I have no wish to be remembered as a painter, for I never was a painter; my idea of that profession was… — Samuel Morse Copy Share Image
If a symbol should be discovered in a painting of mine, it was not my intention. It is a result I did… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
“She had never seen me draw–because not drawing and forgetting everything I knew about art, I thought, was the magic key to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Mostly, drawings are things I make for myself - I do them in sketchbooks. They are mental experiments - private inner thoughts… — Sigmar Polke Copy Share Image
If there’s a thing, a scene, maybe, an image that you want to see real bad, that you need to see but… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
