The difference between the forgettable and the enduring is artistry. — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
Fertilization of the soul is the reason for the necessity of art. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
A fool-proof method for sculpting an horse: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The idea of peer critique, of talking about each other's art - I just found it so useless. — Win Butler Copy Share Image
“What is art if not a concentrated and impassioned effort to make something with the little we have, the little we see?” — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
In the companionship of art we are all of a time. Early or late we are to be shared. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
A martial artist has to take responsibility for himself and accept the consequences of his own doing. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
“Plique-à-jour, which means “windows of light,” is one of the most stunning and difficult enameling techniques.” — Lee Nichols Copy Share Image
“She pondered the arrangements of the paintings on a wall like a writer pondered commas.” — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality. — Ben Nicholson Copy Share Image
the people who run our cities dont understand graffiti because they think nothing has the right to exist unless it makes a… — Banksy Copy Share Image
I love the idea of finding new talent, however you do it, and the television mechanism - seeing artists grow and rise… — Matt Serletic Copy Share Image
If you ever see young artists, and they're not sounding good, they sound good. They're good singers. They wouldn't be where they… — The Weeknd Copy Share Image
I like characters who are larger-than-life, whether life-loving women or the artist or guru who grabs everything. But I don't live among… — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Copy Share Image
Andy [Warhol] put on his fey kind of act, but he wanted to be number one and he succeeded. But you never… — Bob Colacello Copy Share Image
Science and art sometimes can touch one another, like two pieces of the jigsaw puzzle which is our human life, and that… — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
“I am alive to a usual objection to what is clearly part of my programme for the metier of poetry. The objection… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Everybody is in your business, gossiping and being mean spirited. It's different. Sometimes I'm like, "Do I want to do this?," because… — Tinsel Korey Copy Share Image
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Art is Nature made by Man / To Man the interpreter of God. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton Copy Share Image
Having a little fun at my work does not make me any less of an artist. — Clarice Cliff Copy Share Image
Color is the essence of painting, which the subject always killed. — Kazimir Malevich Copy Share Image
“Every parent is an artist, but not every artist is apparent.” — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image