“I create beautiful art, so I can look back on the life my body fell short of in such a way that… — Nikki Rowe Copy Share Image
As artists, sometimes our work is chaotic; we don't easily communicate our needs to other people in a way that they understand. — Kalup Linzy Copy Share Image
Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Art has to be incredibly layered. Symbols, signifiers... layers that relate. Combine signifiers with more abstract notions. Push! Vary lines. — Kay WalkingStick Copy Share Image
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I've been drawing since I was about 3 and I come from a family of artists. — Craig McCracken Copy Share Image
There are so many disagreements in the world, but I like the idea of people agreeing on something like art. — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it's been a huge promotional tool for me. — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
In the attacks on the old ways of doing things on word in particular came into currency. That word was "kitsch." Once… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Greeks and gods on the lawn, on the estate. Versace couches, sandals, candles, and matching plates. This picture's better than Basquiat's greatest… — Rick Ross Copy Share Image
“Now observe; if the artist does not understand the sacredness of the truth of Impression, and supposes that, once quitting hold of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Some artists get so comfortable now after even one or two albums and think, 'I'm the biggest artist in the world,' but… — Sam Smith Copy Share Image
Sometimes the painting starts to relate very directly to either sights seen or experiences felt, other times it just goes off on… — Susan Rothenberg Copy Share Image
I think the Internet has hurt music more than it has helped it. The idea of giving music away for free just… — Steve Mahoney Copy Share Image
Last year I was 16, it was my first round of releasing music. Since then I've been working more on having an… — Loren Gray Copy Share Image
The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
“We make art. We do not feel the need to cut things apart to see what they're made of.” — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Disco does work better with black artists or players. They just feel it more. — Giorgio Moroder Copy Share Image
There is no need to express art in terms of nature. It can perfectly well be expressed in terms of geometry and… — Georges Vantongerloo Copy Share Image
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
In painting you cover up your sins and everyone thinks you're naturally talented. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
History reveals that left-brain people have been creating art for a long time now. — David Luiz Copy Share Image
The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The aim of the historian, like that of the artist, is to enlarge our picture of the world, to give us a… — James Joll Copy Share Image
I went to a public school in Oak Harbor, Ohio, and it's a very rural community. I was an artist kid, and… — Crystal Bowersox Copy Share Image
Just doing a project because its an opportunity wont create meaning. As an artist, I need something to communicate. — Marco Brambilla Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you have to take the whole concept of Art and throw it out on its whore ass.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
When I think of the great artists that I admire, they always had something, whether it be their hair, rings, or whatever. — Luke James Copy Share Image
“The typical English painting is narrative in character. The English are a nation of diarists.” — Neville Weston Copy Share Image
My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of dollars, but just… — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image
“To be an artist today is such an act of faith: nothing can come back from it except the satisfaction of the… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
The worst thing that can happen to an artist is to be subsidized by the state. It leads to an intellectual and… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
I try to get as close to a childlike level as possible because we were all artists back then. — Kanye West Copy Share Image
I'd hit thirty, I'd sort of failed as a musician, I'd failed as an artist I felt at the time. — Paul Kaye Copy Share Image
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, said Browning, and so it has - extended by the length of an… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Sculpture is an art of the open air. Daylight, sunlight, is necessary to it, and for me, its best setting and complement… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
The art of tomorrow will be a collective treasure, or it will not be art at all. — Victor Vasarely Copy Share Image
YouTube is a platform where people can be extremely, and sometimes brutally honest about how they feel about a certain artist or… — Jonita Gandhi Copy Share Image
Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness. — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
