The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“To be an artist was to have failure as your constant bedfellow.” — M. Thomas Gammarino Copy Share Image
The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have… — Balthus Copy Share Image
Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand. — James Thomson Copy Share Image
I don’t think you can talk about progress in art—movement, but not progress. — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
Great music and great artists create their own music and look and are not manufactured. — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
Singing background has always been such a precious thing. I'm always going to be excited to sing behind an artist and learn… — Judith Hill Copy Share Image
I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's… — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined. — Odilon Redon Copy Share Image
Yet a real artist, I've noticed, will survive anything. (Even praise, I happily suspect.) — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I know that some of the great painters and some of the great artists didn't even start to 'peak', as you say,… — Joe Perry Copy Share Image
This labour of the artist to discover a means of apprehending beneath matter and experience, beneath words, something different from their appearance,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“When I see how several painters I know here are struggling with their watercolours and paintings so that they can't see a… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Being in the studio, it's more of a controlled environment, where you can be Salvador Dali and sit back and look at… — Zakk Wylde Copy Share Image
Abstract art as it is conceived at present is a game bequeathed to painting and sculpture by art history. One who accepts… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The portrait painter... If he insults his sitters his occupation is gone. Whether he paints the should instead of the features, or… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
I do know that there is a difference between artists who are career-driven and artists who have a calling and are just… — Ian Astbury Copy Share Image
What is so incredible and essential about an authentic cultural scene is it rejects a value system based on consumption and productivity… — Claire Vaye Watkins Copy Share Image
Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization. — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love. — Marsilio Ficino Copy Share Image
I was getting paid for my art, because I was always an under-achiever. — Carson Ellis Copy Share Image
My painting Two Worlds actually changed the way people see the world. — Robert Lyn Nelson Copy Share Image
It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else. — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
