You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy. — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I would sometimes sit in a crowded restaurant, and say, 'You know, I'm the only person in this restaurant who can't draw.' — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Painting is as difficult as brain surgery. It's not that relaxing. But that's the discipline. — Jamie Wyeth Copy Share Image
If an artist has no experience before he makes a painting or a sculpture, he is not an artist. — Naum Gabo Copy Share Image
Looking like I don't have it together is actually an art that I perfected. — Deon Cole Copy Share Image
An artist spends himself like the crayon in his hand, till he is all gone. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When you make a painting, even abstract, there is always a sort of necessary filling-in. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
For the song 'Rub,' I wanted to do a video with all women, in every aspect, from the electrician to the makeup… — Peaches Copy Share Image
Painting for process is the visual equivalent of journal writing, done not for the sake of being seen or published, but purely… — Michele Cassou Copy Share Image
“It follows from Schopenhauer’s analysis that evert genuine work of art must have its origin in direct perception; that is to say… — Bryan Magee Copy Share Image
When you're making art, there's a lot of self-importance attached to that, but at the end of the day, you can always… — Glen Berger Copy Share Image
I do feel like L.A. has a very supportive and collaborative energy. I felt that in New York too but also there's… — Alex Winston Copy Share Image
I think that the essence of being an artist is to break rules. You have to learn rules, and you have to… — Johann Johannsson Copy Share Image
The debut show, “Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary,” is supposed to be about how artists reuse humble or unusual materials. There’s good… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
When you look at the paintings at Chauvet Cave, they're not primitive or like children's little scribbles, it bursts on the scene… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
