“The arts which need interpretation are the arts of time -- music and poetry -- and not the arts of space --… — Salvador de Madariaga Copy Share Image
As an artist, you always have to be growing. You don't just want to do what you already know people like. — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
What I am is a father, a grandfather, a great grandfather, and an artist. I am a man who loves his people… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
A museum should not just be a place for fancy paintings but should be a place where we can communicate our lives… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Sometimes being an artist is a real drag. It can be incredibly bureaucratic. — Micah Lexier Copy Share Image
Drawing and Success has one similarity, if you believe in it, you can create it. — @efiosiugbore Copy Share Image
An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Painting is manual labor, no different from any other; it can be done well or poorly. — George Grosz Copy Share Image
It is the work of the Canadian artist to paint or play or write in such a way that life will be… — J. E. H. MacDonald Copy Share Image
My paintings are reflections of my own inner mysteries... they all reflect my relationship to my steadiest of companions and muses -… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
I will fall on my face sometimes And I can't color inside the lines 'Cause I'm perfectly incomplete I'm still working on… — Jessie J Copy Share Image
Traffic' was an album that had a significant amount of songs. It was not complete and I felt didn't fully represent me… — Vic Mensa Copy Share Image
“Even some of his commissions that were completed, or almost so—Ginevra de’ Benci and the Mona Lisa, for example—were never delivered to… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Due to the failure of politics, which has become a process of middle-management, art has become one of the last open spaces… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
I was one of the first post-studio artists. I used to do my works in the streets. I used to find them… — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
I love when I'm trying to do something I don't know how to do, and it kind of figures itself out along… — Lynne Rae Perkins Copy Share Image
If I have a voice to shine light on things or draw attention or provoke, as an artist people look to -… — Slowthai Copy Share Image
Some people buy art because they're confident that it'll be a good store value, and this is kind of a recent phenomenon. — Larry Gagosian Copy Share Image
Me wanting to be an artist never really faded away. I knew that no matter what else I tried to pursue, my… — Saweetie Copy Share Image
If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
For me the top music though has to be Rock or Hip Hop and artists like Kanye West. — Steve Purdy Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to know what kind of music their favorite artist listens to. It feels good to. I don't try to dwell… — Brett Dennen Copy Share Image
I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts. — Catherine Deneuve Copy Share Image
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It's weird, like, my life has always imitated art, and my art has always imitated life. — Sebastian Bach Copy Share Image
The artist is the compass which, through the raging of the storm, points steadily to the north. — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
My problem with political art is not that it's bad art necessarily, but that it is terrible politics. — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
The essence of art is to recapturel the fantasy and the imagination of a child again, but without the innocence of a… — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all. — Alberto Giacometti Copy Share Image
Beethoven and Michelangelo, who sold their artworks for profit, were entrepreneurs and capitalists. — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
Im like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big… — Steven Saylor Copy Share Image
Art is always about overcoming obstacles between the inner condition and the skill for expression. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
“Once you have a blank canvas in front of your eyes, you can think about how you want to paint it.” — Dr Prem Jagyasi Copy Share Image
As a creative, as an artist, I'm just excited when people want my stuff, and want to experience it. — Randy Pitchford Copy Share Image
That is an artist as I would have an artist be, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I do tend to use watercolors - I love the splatter sort of thing you can do with watercolors. — Mini Grey Copy Share Image
I think what makes people think that is because of things people write. It really doesn't have anything to do with the… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
I still think that if one of Jim's masterpieces were downgraded to sell crap, I would get sick. — John Densmore Copy Share Image
The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself. — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
