The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself. — Henry James Copy Share Image
90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
It's as if a child with a brush and too much enthusiasm has been set free with a tin of black paint… — Jenny Downham Copy Share Image
A lot of art can potentially make people uncomfortable, particularly when it deals with different times and hard issues. — Mary Katharine Ham Copy Share Image
It’s hard to imagine the revenue from selling the prints will cover the cost of lost goodwill. — Stewart Butterfield Copy Share Image
When we uplift artists who reflect diverse perspectives their stories not only tell us how people view others, but how they view… — Mena Massoud Copy Share Image
As an artist, you tend to identify your sphere of influence and try to employ that as best you can to hopefully… — Anohni Copy Share Image
I feel confident that the work I've put in will make people see me as a music artist before anything else. — FKA twigs Copy Share Image
My father started out as a riveter, but he had the soul of an artist. He worshiped Shakespeare and had aspirations to… — Christine Ebersole Copy Share Image
All 48 of my fights have been hard. None have been easy. All played a major key. It's the 'Mayweather Era.' I… — Floyd Mayweather, Jr Copy Share Image
“There is nothing in the world which an artist cannot recreate into something poetic, ennobling. And why do we read these things?… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
I started as a child artist, and not as a heroine, as most would think. I was performing on stage once when… — Asha Parekh Copy Share Image
Not all of us are painters but we are all artists. Each time we fit things together we are creating - whether… — Corita Kent Copy Share Image
I know some artists who come out of country music and the three sessions a day work ethic where you walk in,… — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
I think, as an artist, you have to have experienced some deep turmoil, some kind of pain, because that's what connects you… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
The artist's business requires an involvement in practically everything... The total scope of information he receives day after day is of concern. — Hans Haacke Copy Share Image
Ultimately, music is to reflect the artist and their artistry. I've been pretty true to that. — Keyshia Cole Copy Share Image
A work of art, so far as it is a work of art, cannot - whatever the artist's personal intention - advocate… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't. — Brad Holland Copy Share Image
“If you can realistically render a cypress tree, would you include one when commissioned to paint a sailor in the midst of… — Horace Copy Share Image
I don't need to own one but I like to look at Diane Arbus's pictures and anything by Jackson Pollock. — Lynne Ramsay Copy Share Image
We live in what virtually amounts to a museum - which does not happen to a lot of people. — Prince Philip Copy Share Image
Art is based on emotion, but being macho is based on ego; the wall protecting that emotion. — Miguel Copy Share Image
I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Copy Share Image
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I've just always been creative and my mom gave me the freedom to be an artist ever since I was young. — Doechii Copy Share Image
Most artists I know are private, and quiet folks who often spend most of their days alone in a studio. — Dan Santat Copy Share Image
“In my opinion, neither way is easy. If I'm going to struggle between artist and a normal 9 to 5 job. I… — Erin McMillan Copy Share Image
Now I want to become an artist, rather than one thing, like a dancer, or a movie star, or a choreographer. — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
ALL ART, OF COURSE, IS INTELLECTUAL, BUT FOR ME, ALL THE ARTS, AND CINEMA EVEN MORE SO, MUST ABOVE ALL BE EMOTIONAL… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
There's a need to keep the history of an artform going, parallel with the new work that's being done. — Hal Price Copy Share Image
I don't need art to tell me people are assholes. I can just go into the streets. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
I think anytime you see something that's been brought to life by an artist's hands, it just has a different kind of… — Travis Knight Copy Share Image
When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens. — John Cage Copy Share Image
If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Everything, even the most ordinary daily affair, is enriched by the lessons that can be gleaned from art... — Michael Kimmelman Copy Share Image
