He who despises painting has no love for the philosophy in nature. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
There's not much to know about me other than I like meeting artists and I like yakking. — Irving Sandler Copy Share Image
God, the supreme artist, uses our life for the creation of art. We are the instruments through which the force of life… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
Have you ever heard sculptors say that they don’t actually sculpt an object; they sculpt away everything that isn’t the object? — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
All it takes to become an Artist is to start doing Art. By living a life full of Art, we may achieve… — Ellen Langer Copy Share Image
The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“And the first cause of your losing it is to neglect this art; and what enables you to acquire a state is… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Life, religion and art all converge in Bali. They have no word in their language for 'artist' or 'art.' Everyone is an… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I criticise these compositions by analysis but an illustration cannot be made that way - it must be made by inspiration. — Howard Pyle Copy Share Image
Art's effect is due to the tension resulting from the clash of the collocation of elements of two (or more) systems of… — Yuri Lotman Copy Share Image
I truly find such a sense of peace and calm when I'm working, and it's an inner peace that I've never been… — Dakota Fanning Copy Share Image
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Making art, I try to just gently persist, instead of having freak-outs where I'm like, Oh, my god, I'll never draw again.… — Gary Panter Copy Share Image
I have a lot left inside. I believe my art will last 500 years, 1,000 years and forever. For me, art is… — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
When I wrote for Jordan Knight, I was 17 or 18, they were pretty much the only songs I was writing. By… — Robin Thicke Copy Share Image
... landscapes or still-lifes I paint in between the abstract works; they constitute about one-tenth of my production. On the one hand… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
What one seems to want in art, in experiencing it, is the same thing that is necessary for its creation, a self-forgetful,… — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
I always like to see if the art across the street is better than mine. — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
What I mean is sometimes, for an artist, chronic pain can be a gift. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
