Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees. — Robert Indiana Copy Share Image
“There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself. [Pg.189]” — Akira Kurosawa Copy Share Image
I do real paintings, you know. I'm a little messy in the studio, so I'm a bit of a danger. But I… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
When you devote yourself to being an artist, you have to stay on your craft and always try to get better and… — Raekwon Copy Share Image
My daughter's 19. I'm not asking her to develop as an artist. I'm just asking her to develop as a full person,… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
The educator and the public need to have an opportunity to discuss why certain art is important. — David Elliott Copy Share Image
“The hardest thing is to do something which is close to nothing because it is demanding all of you.” — Marina Abramović Copy Share Image
Lie bills and calculations much perplexed, With steam-boats, frigates, and machinery quaint Traced over them in blue and yellow paint. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Some artists are nervous - most of them are, to tell you the truth, and they have different ways of exhibiting that.… — Daryl Hall Copy Share Image
The personality of the artist, at first a cry or a cadence or a mood and then a fluid, and lambent narrative,… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“Let the Art be brought back only for the good of the world. If it isn the hand of one who would… — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
I think that's what so exquisite and unique about New York, it's a city that allows you to hone your craft as… — Nina Arianda Copy Share Image
“Ninety-nine percent talent…ninety-nine percent discipline…ninety-nine percent work. He must never be satisfied with what he does. It is never as good as… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“As an artist, if your work doesn't inflame at least part of the audience, then you might as well call it quits… — Alys Arden Copy Share Image
But generally speaking, people weren't fired, art jobs were very hard to get, so something really calamitous had to happen to a… — Gil Kane Copy Share Image
“One cannot escape from the world with greater certainty than through art, and one cannot relate to it with greater certainty than… — Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Copy Share Image
Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction. — John Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other. — Neal Cassady Copy Share Image
Twombly, frankly, was an acquired taste. I was not in love with Twombly the first time I saw one of his paintings. — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
I have learned that as an artist, I cannot succumb to the temptation to please others. — Kiana Madeira Copy Share Image
I think as a creative person, anything you put in front of an artist, any type of medium, your specific tastes will… — Julia Fox Copy Share Image
I'm a well rounded artist and I love to make music and create and be different. Hopefully I get the opportunity to… — Tony Sunshine Copy Share Image
The only way an artist can communicate with the world at large is on the level of feeling. — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
I'm a songwriter, an artist, and a musician. I do not have to try to be that; I just am. — Linda Perry Copy Share Image
The privilege of struggling artists is ... the life being buried in what we can't really afford of* what a gorgeous life!! — Hiroko Sakai Copy Share Image
Artists must literally go into a zone of intense seeing so the subjective and objective almost fuse together. — Burton Silverman Copy Share Image
“Judging art is like caging a bird. Instead of seeing it soar, you can only watch it flutter.” — Ron Brackin Copy Share Image
Art and love are the same thing: Its the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
My make-up artist, she uses bronzer on the eyelids too. And also a little bit on the forehead to make everything look… — Bar Refaeli Copy Share Image
A common defect of modern art study is that too many students do not know why they draw. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
“The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity.” — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Water Lilies' is an extension of my life. Without the woter the lilies cannot live, as I am without art.” — Claude Monet 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
“...and any discussion of art vs. entertainment in the present cultural climate invites accusations of elitism and snobbery.” — Steven Moore Copy Share Image
If it were art to overcome heresy with fire, the executioners would be the most learned doctors on earth. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I knew that I must paint not what I saw, but only what was in me, in my soul. — Alexej von Jawlensky Copy Share Image
Having trained in theatre, that is what I enjoy most as it gives the scope to grow as an artist with every… — Rohini Hattangadi Copy Share Image
Art is not created in a vacuum. That experience is something to be shared with a group of people, and to be… — Walton Goggins Copy Share Image
I don't have a religious bone in my body but I believe artists (of any medium), in our best selves, are vessels… — Michael Hyatt Copy Share Image