The subject matter of art is life, life as it actually is; but the function of art is to make life better. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“Not everyone with a painting brush is an artist, likewise not everyone with a camera is a photographer ” — Ewlyn Fernando Copy Share Image
As an artist, where do you conjure these concepts? They come through you instead of through cognitive thought. — Nick Littlemore Copy Share Image
Artists are like messengers. A song is authored by you, but its interpretation is owned by other people. And you have no… — Pharrell Williams Copy Share Image
Obviously, there is pleasure in the execution of any sort of art, and using language, as Nabokov felt also, is an exquisite… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I'm an artist and I can draw very well. I'm amazed that everybody can't draw well because I can do it so… — Jerry Lawler Copy Share Image
I believe I have had the most trouble with a portrait which I painted in installments - the head on one canvas… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Art indeed may not change anything, and yet on some very basic level, life is insupportable without it.” — Richard Matturro Copy Share Image
. . . All artists’ work is autobiographical. Any writer’s work is a map of their psyche. You can really see what… — Kim Addonizio Copy Share Image
Clearly the hardest thing for the working artist is to create his own conception and follow it, unafraid of the strictures it… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
The artist's job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery. To intuit it, and recognize that the story-germ has some… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I don't need a Hollywood girl. They're crazy. If you're with an actress, you don't know who you're going to come home… — JC Chasez Copy Share Image
Life is a painting, and you are the artist. You have on your palette all the colors in the spectrum - the… — Paul J. Meyer Copy Share Image
People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing interest in collecting art as an… — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
The critic interested in a novel manifestation holds his criteria and taste in reserve. Since they were formed upon yesterday's art, he… — Leo Steinberg Copy Share Image
At restaurants, I carry paper and markers and tell everyone to draw a picture with a unicorn, an octopus and an explosion.… — Julie Bowen Copy Share Image
