The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Where in the wide history of the world do we find art created by the excessively wealthy, powerful, or educated? — David Mamet Copy Share Image
I just want to make one really good movie a year. And when I die, to know I was honest as an… — Milla Jovovich Copy Share Image
As a fine artist I was drawn to composition and technique. I would count the cuts. — Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Copy Share Image
Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way. — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
In order to create art today, you have to compromise your art somewhat and be a businessman. — Roger Corman Copy Share Image
In 1975 I had the award for the top male artist, the award for top single, the award for top album. — Demis Roussos Copy Share Image
There is more fine abstract design in Navajo rugs than in all these modern paintings. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“They were both young men under thirty. Art is not so precocious as literature, and does not send quite so many early… — Hume Nisbet Copy Share Image
Inspiration is the most valuable commodity for an artist; it is for me anyway. I can't move forward in any way if… — Mark Ryden Copy Share Image
My greatest fear in working is always the end. Lately I have taken to tricking myself into finishing by leaving a hole… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
The Yeas are relatively uniform. They view [Bob] Dylan as one of the greatest artists of his or any era, who deserves… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
Who says you can't rock Wall Street and wear purple at the same time? Jennifer Lee opens the door for artists, healers,… — Tama J. Kieves Copy Share Image
In this new world where art is willfully misinterpreted to score points and to distract, simply doing the work of an artist… — Corey Stoll Copy Share Image
“Art playing on its own disappearance and the disappearance of its object was still an art of great works. But art playing… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
I went to a terrifying boarding school and everyone was a brilliant singer or musician or artist, and I wasn't good at… — Geraldine James Copy Share Image
I live an artistic double life: one of classical realism and the other of aesthetic exploration. — Alton Tobey Copy Share Image
Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival… — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
I don't want to be a gay or a straight artist. I don't make gay records - I make records. — Darren Hayes Copy Share Image
I love my painting - it fills me with passion. But it's not something I expect anyone else to love. — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
It is not badness, it is the absence of goodness, which, in Art as in Life, is so depressing. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
I had the desire to paint the figure without actually painting the figure. — Nathan Oliveira Copy Share Image
“I have been using art as a means to the emotions of life and reading into it the ideas of life.” — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
People will always blame the poets for society's ills. But these are the true artists. — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think I'm an artist. Once in a great while I even think I may be a visionary, but never a… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
There's a lot of artists whose contracts are written in such a way that they do not get paid for what's happening… — Sean Parker Copy Share Image
I consider myself an artist, which is, like, the most played term, but I believe it. — Travis Scott Copy Share Image
There are makeup artists sometimes that have a jade face roller. If you're really tired those are really good. — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
In my music, I'm uncensored, which has helped me stand out as a female artist. — Natti Natasha Copy Share Image
The function of the creative artist consists of making laws, not in following laws already made. — Ferruccio Busoni Copy Share Image
“What this lone artist wanted to do was construct a giant bridge of the spirit, spanning different faiths, cultures, eras, and sexualities.” — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
The thing I like about the band [Dead Child] is that there's no pretense. We aren't even trying to be artists or… — David Pajo Copy Share Image
If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it. — William Morris Copy Share Image
I feel like a slave, and in a way like an artist, because I need to get inspiration everyday, from everything and… — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
People would say to me, 'Who do you want to be as an artist?' And I would just look at them because… — Lauren Alaina Copy Share Image
When fans of mine meet me, I can see the disappointment in their eyes. Every artist knows of this phenomenon. — John Banville Copy Share Image
The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Christ is more of an artist than the artists; he works in the living spirit and the living flesh, he makes men… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
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