“A painting that doesn't shock isn't worth painting-Marcel Duchamp” — Alice Goldfarb Marquis Copy Share Image
“Paint the canvas of your dreams with the blood of your sweat. You are the Picasso of your own life.” — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art. — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
If you're an artist, you're an artist; that's the only way I can explain it. — Malik Bendjelloul Copy Share Image
I paint a bit myself. My house in Clerkenwell has a room that is done up like a big installation. — David Thewlis Copy Share Image
What artists have accomplished is realizing there's only a small amount of stuff that's important and then seeing what it was. — Mitchell Feigenbaum Copy Share Image
Those who are waiting for an epiphany to strike may wait forever. The artist simply goes to work, making art, both good… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
If, as an artist, I feel true to one thing and I'm being asked to give that up to do something else,… — Laura Nyro Copy Share Image
We are all born artists. If you have kids, you know what I mean. Almost everything kids do is art. They draw… — Kim Young-ha Copy Share Image
“And even if something had once been committed to paper, did it mean that it was still true? Always true? Unlike the… — Robin Oliveira Copy Share Image
The impulse of nature, fused through the personality of the artist by laws arising from the particular nature of the medium, produces… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
Sciences provide an understanding of a universal experience, Arts are a universal understanding of a personal experience... they are both a part… — Mae Jemison Copy Share Image
I believe all artists, if they are not lying to themselves, must believe that the best part of their work, or even… — Jan Saudek Copy Share Image
In college, I thought I wanted to be solely an artist, and then when I got here, to college, I was like,… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
Go with your gut every single time. It's never, ever wrong. Even if feels like everybody else is telling you that you… — Tatiana Maslany Copy Share Image
Having that little bit of breathing room to work, and not feeling like it's going to fall apart at any second, has… — Will Sheff Copy Share Image
It is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusion of actuality which is his… — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
You could say that I have no inspiration, that I only need to paint. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
