“I had come down here, not to serve God as a craftsman should, but to show my people how great a craftsman… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
There are so many artists who get to my age that get comfortable and just stick in a groove, and I really… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
I don't believe that there is a separation between art and political consciousness. — Yasmine Hamdan Copy Share Image
All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
A lot of artists make art for five years, some artists make art for ten years, a few make art for fifteen:… — Doseone Copy Share Image
I'd love to be an artist. My mum is so talented and she used to design her own greetings cards. I'm crap… — Daisy May Cooper Copy Share Image
Art! What a concept! It saved my life! A place where you can do as you please! — William T. Wiley Copy Share Image
Every city I go to is an opportunity to paint, whether it's Omaha or Hawaii. — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be an artist. I think I was just waiting on somebody to approve me and be like, "Oh,… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
It is possible that, through horizontal and vertical lines constructed with awareness, but not with calculation, led by high intuition, and brought… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I just wanna be an artist, like someone like Bjork and Kate Bush and Regina Spektor. These are people that have saved… — Kate Nash Copy Share Image
“A master's (an artist's) Modus Vivendi is to guide his creative self on the path of generating ideas, in a synergistic work… — VIRGIL PROFEANU Copy Share Image
Poverty when coupled with creativeness is usually free of frustration. This is true of the poor artisan skilled in his trade and… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I never retouch a sketch: I take a canvas the same size, as I may change the composition somewhat. But I always… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Your art is what you do when no one can tell you exactly how to do it. Your art is the act… — Seth Copy Share Image
When I need some striking inspiration about deep depression for my new painting, I just need to go to check my bank… — Hiroko Sakai Copy Share Image
Do console your poor friend, who is so troubled to see his paintings so miserable, so sad, next to the radiant nature… — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Copy Share Image
The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing; museums are scaling back. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
O, how much simpler things would be If eyes could paint or brush could see. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
I love painters because I don't paint, so I get to enjoy art; I like collecting paintings. — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Nate Dogg is my favorite artist. I cried more when he passed than when Michael Jackson did. — Jimmy O. Yang Copy Share Image
Art as a whole is a riddle. Another way of putting this is to say that art expresses something while at the… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
If more than 10% of the people like a painting, you can be sure it's bad. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
I've realized that I love all forms of music and get excited when any artist goes crazy and creates something that is… — Tom DeLonge Copy Share Image
I see painting as an evocative magic, and there must always be a random factor in magic, one which must be constantly… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I always felt that a painted edge between two colors was a depiction somehow. — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
Artfulness is not simple entertainment, especially during upheaval, unleashing creative life is sacred duty. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“It goes without saying that the artists sympathised not with the actual working classes but with their own idea of the working… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
“Is something art just because a museum hangs it on their wall? Are you networking just because you’re standing in a crowded… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Prince led by example. As prolific as he was as an artist, he was just as courageous in the business. — Benji Madden Copy Share Image
I'm a little bit of an obsessed artist, and I'm not very talented. But isn't Suzanne Somers a bad painter? — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
“I look up at the painting. It's not even that interesting. Definitely doesn't grab me and shake my brain around like the… — Stefan Bachmann Copy Share Image
Any piece of art has the potential to emotionally touch you and nudge you. — Anubhav Sinha Copy Share Image
In the bit of painting that I've done, I'm interested in colour and texture. I'm very interested in transparency. — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
We're able to influence younger generations on design and art. They might not have realized they were an artist. — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's… — Warren Cuccurullo Copy Share Image
