The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he has to make others see. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Such is the never-failing beauty and accuracy of language, the most perfect art in the world; the chisel of a thousand years… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The artist is the most interesting of all phenomena, for he represents creativity, the definition of man. — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Being passionate about something is the most beautiful characteristic you can develop.” — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“He shouldn't say things like that in front of the artworks, especially when they're angry, but he always does.” — Donna K. Fitch Copy Share Image
We artists give daily thanks for the miracle of our planet and for the inclination and the capability to honour it. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
In 'There Will Be Blood,' my character was someone who was an actor himself almost. He had a rehearsed quality about him.… — Paul Dano Copy Share Image
If you're an artist trying to put out your own record on your own label, it's hard to get a distribution deal… — Aimee Mann Copy Share Image
The client isn't quite satisfied and then the prostitute is always unsatisfied but is doing it just to make ends meet. And… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
Try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, a house, a field, or whatever. Merely think, 'Here is… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
There will never be a job that I do in this industry where I don't have to talk about being a woman.… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
The only thing you can do as an artist is to come to the world, see what no one is doing, and… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
Leaving some areas less finished in a painting, or more out of focus than others, allows the imagination to finish them and… — Mary Beth McKenzie Copy Share Image
“Sometimes being hotheaded and doing it your own way and walking out on all the hot shit might be the right thing… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
You have treated the arts as the cherry on the cake. It needs to be the yeast. — Mallika Sarabhai Copy Share Image
You see the transformation that the arts have on young people. It changes their lives for the better. That's where my engagement… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
I'm just happy I got to express who I am as an artist and touch people's hearts. — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
All the earth colours of the painter's palette are out there in the many miles of badlands... — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
“Our tragedy is their beauty. Our pain is their art. The beatific bereavement that is our life captured on a canvas for… — Solange nicole Copy Share Image
A lot of my paintings have quite negative meanings, but painted in a bright and cheerful way. — Ben Eine Copy Share Image
To wear something like that your whole life is the largest compliment someone can pay to you as an artist. — H. R. Giger Copy Share Image
My life is mine and I form it. Tell yourself this often. Create your own life now, using your beliefs as an… — Seth Copy Share Image
I think most people gain some sense of how to look at a painting, but no one ever teaches you how to… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
“Is this the main thing that painters of portraits care about? The person on the verge of becoming someone else?” — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
So it's like the underground world no longer exists economically cause they're not giving money back to their supporting artists. — Kool Keith Copy Share Image
“Support for the arts -- merde! A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore!” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“And mostly I believe the artists further the systematic murder of the real” — Dennis Lee Copy Share Image
In a world that has ceased to believe in sin, the artist is responsible for the preaching. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Art actually happens somewhere in the space between clarity and ambiguity, concept and intuition, thought and feeling.” — Bert Dodson Copy Share Image
Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Asked what role he believes art plays in society, Baselitz replied, 'The same role as a good shoe, nothing more. — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction. — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
Art is the work of a human being – something a person does with generosity to touch someone else to make a… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Can you really think artists and writers are the only people entitled to lives of their own? — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
