“There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it.” — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
When I'm painting outdoors, I only have time to think about what I'm saying, not how I'm saying it. — Matt Smith Copy Share Image
If light is the spiritual quality of painting, color is surely its heart and passion. — Robert Reynolds Copy Share Image
I regret not starting to paint earlier...It is one of the few things I do regret. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
It is a matter mostly of having the time to spare from my finished paintings to put in on travelling and sketching… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
“Good art shows us how difficult it is to be objective by showing us how differently the world looks to an objective… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
The type of pop culture that is honestly very moving and powerful to me is [when artists] do their homework. They make… — David Rees Copy Share Image
Sitting at the corner, and I ddnt know what to do and so I grabbed my brush and started to draw of… — Roo Roosing Potestas Copy Share Image
Ideally, it would be cool to actually get to know artists enough to know what their feelings are, what they believe in,… — Poo Bear Copy Share Image
The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And that's the… — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
Whatever the scientists may come up with, writers and artists will continue to portray altered mental states, simply because few aspects of… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I saw the industrial scene and I was affected by it. I tried to paint it all the time. I tried to… — L. S. Lowry Copy Share Image
When I have a model who is quiet and steady and with whom I am acquainted, then I draw repeatedly 'til there… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
At the deepest level, the creative process and the healing process arise from a single source. When you are an artist, you… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
Imagination is a danger thus every totalitarian regime is frightened of the artist. It is the vocation of the prophet to keep… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
The painter of genius will not waste a moment upon those smaller objects which only serve to catch the sense, to divide… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
As artists, we do our best to create things that say something and are powerful. — Michele Lamy Copy Share Image
As far as art's concerned, I probably like modern art more than traditional art. — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
Let us prove to the world that good taste, good art, and good writing can be good selling. — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
Pictorial art is relating tones to create beauty - like chords of music - not the faithful copying of the model. — Harvey Dunn Copy Share Image
“Because that’s what art is; that’s what it does. It breaks your heart. It moves you. If it doesn’t do that, forget… — Kate Klise Copy Share Image
“The working artist will not tolerate trouble in her life because she knows trouble prevents her from doing her work.” — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I'm a better artist and I'm a better person because I'm wiser, and stronger and I know who's hip for me and… — Boosie Copy Share Image
And what is 'art'? - a firestorm rushing through Time, arising from no visible source and conforming to no principles of logic… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
In the period of '60s to the '90s, British art schools were small, and the number of student was small. The personal… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty. — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
I think every artist wants to create something, on their own, without any boundaries. — Amaal Mallik Copy Share Image
After a long period of not drawing, you have to, like, relearn how to draw. It's not very fun. — Bryan Lee O'Malley Copy Share Image
I don't love the postmodern statement: "You shouldn't be spiritual if you are the artist." — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
No one should ever imitate the style of another because, with regard to art, he will be called a nephew and not… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I don't particularly look at other artists when I'm working. But references do come into my work intuitively. — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
Anyone in pursuit of art is responding to a desire to make visible that which is not, to offer the unknown self… — Hettie Jones Copy Share Image
Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I have always wanted to have a cultural centre where people can sort of have a community of artists and like-minded people… — Kiran Rao Copy Share Image
“He’s the foreground of the painting that is your life together. You’re the background. You like it that way.” — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
Art is not just to show life as it is, but to show life as it should be. — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
Art is beyond the enmity! That's why you can always love the art of your enemy, even though you hate him! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The Man who never in his Mind & Thoughts travel'd to Heaven Is No Artist. — William Blake Copy Share Image
As an artist, you can work to make money, or you can be an artist who thinks about their legacy. — Anthony Ramos Copy Share Image
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