Beginning with audacity is a very great part of the art of painting. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I am writing graffiti on your body. I am drawing the story of how hard we tried. — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
“We don't often see our own stories. Good artists are the ones that whisper our own stories back to us.” — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
The artist accepts the limitations of form, not with fear and dread, but as the starting point of creation. — Laurence Boldt Copy Share Image
“What can be sadder than a discouraged artist dying not from his own commonplace maladies, but from the cancer of oblivion?” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I'm a Baha'i; we really believe in Baha'i faith that our work has to be our service, especially in the arts. — Justin Baldoni Copy Share Image
I am a very lucky artist in the sense that I have had all my life a lot of opportunities to do… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“I refuse to consider Art a drain-pipe for passion, a kind of chamberpot, a slightly more elegant substitute for gossip and confidences.… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Dylan's 'Chronicles' is easily the best rock n' roll memoir ever written, as far as I'm concerned. There aren't many stories in… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
The truth is revealed by removing things that stand in its light, an art not unlike sculpture, in which the artist creates,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I'm a trained fine artist. I went to art school from the time I was 5 years old. I was, like, a… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
I feel like, to have a career as an artist, you don't need to meet the same criteria as you do to… — Judith Hill Copy Share Image
If you're really going to uncover something as an artist, you're going to come into access with parts of your personality and… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
With my own work, I've always tried at least to wake people up and shake them out of their complacency. And that's… — Jonas Akerlund Copy Share Image
