“Can we never take pleasure in nature without having recourse to art?” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
First, before I'm an artist, before I'm a celebrity, I'm a human being. — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
But nobody is visually naive any longer. We are cluttered with images, and only abstract art can bring us to the threshold… — Dominique de Menil Copy Share Image
An artist should always bite the hand that feeds him - but not too hard. — Nam June Paik Copy Share Image
I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly. — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
The highest duty of the writer, the composer, the artist, is to remain true to himself and to let the chips fall… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
You just need to take a look at my work to understand that I borrow and adapt an incredible amount of techniques… — Amaury Guichon Copy Share Image
People send me songs all the time that are literally no-brainer hits... but for me, I'm an artist because I'm a writer. — Kelsea Ballerini Copy Share Image
As an artist, I feel a certain responsibility to write about difficult subject matter. — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
Someone's career that I admire would have to be Justin Timberlake's because he started off on Disney and he made this huge… — Victoria Justice Copy Share Image
“Back at Tittenhurst that night we tried to remove our acrylic tilaka without success. “The conservatives had a point after all,” I… — Mukunda Goswami Copy Share Image
I didn't grow up in a naked household, but nudity was not a taboo thing. My mother was an artist and there… — Ingrid Michaelson Copy Share Image
Raja Ravi Varma was one of the few Indians who not only understood women but also represented them exquisitely in a single… — Suhasini Maniratnam 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
In one way or another, I always marked my pictures. But there were times when I put my signature on the back… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“It makes a body ooze sarcasm at every pore, to go about Rome and Florence and see what this last generation has… — Franklin J. Meine Copy Share Image
The big, big record labels have so much control. I think too much control that it actually made their artists scared to… — Joss Stone Copy Share Image
The best way to understand a painting is by drawing it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics. — August Wilson Copy Share Image
“If art can help us grieve, can help us mourn, then lean on it.” — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
