The brilliance of art as a collectible is that it has a way of reaching out on an emotional level. It touches… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
And how to paint your lovely hands, fluttering over the silks like two dark birds? — Elizabeth Borton de Trevino Copy Share Image
In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There's no way to really mock up or simulate what I'm doing until I'm there. An exhibition for me is not a… — Robert Irwin Copy Share Image
“Dalí is one marvellous painter, but in living times he's one marvellous clown —more interesting for everybody.” — Salvador Dalí Copy Share Image
A true artist should have no secrets. On the stage, you must be able to transmit every emotion to the spectator. — Anna Pavlova Copy Share Image
Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies. — Gary Wright Copy Share Image
As an artist, I am very proud of 'Ek Thi Daayan.' It was a supernatural flick and a huge risk, since not… — Huma Qureshi Copy Share Image
“Chicago does not go to the world, the world comes to Chicago! Who needs New York? Who has taller buildings than our… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Grace, not willpower, is what ultimately empowers us to live loving lives. Creativity, both in what spawns within the artist and the… — Ronald Rolheiser Copy Share Image
Honestly, I really can't speak on others, but in a sense, I feel like every artist always has their problems with the… — Travis Scott Copy Share Image
I never quite dare to believe I'm brave enough to be an artist, but I'm on the side of artists. I think… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
As artist Nature splashes color across the vast canvas of the sky with the radiance and splendor of sunrise and sunset. She… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
I hate categories. Hank Williams is a great artist, period. Bob Dylan is a great artist, so is Marty Robbins. They just… — George Thorogood Copy Share Image
I paint daily with watercolors on 5-by-7-inch pads that are small enough for me to take them everywhere. — Steven Holl Copy Share Image
The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
Art is something that nobody laughs at and nobody makes any money out of is the attitude, which I would dispute. — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
Part of my attraction to ancient art is that there is an element of risk, of speculation. — Michael Steinhardt Copy Share Image
The depths modern art has been exploring are mysterious depths, full of strange fish... — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
A museum should not just be a place for fancy paintings but should be a place where we can communicate our lives… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
As an artist, you always have to be growing. You don't just want to do what you already know people like. — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
What I am is a father, a grandfather, a great grandfather, and an artist. I am a man who loves his people… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish. — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
“The arts which need interpretation are the arts of time -- music and poetry -- and not the arts of space --… — Salvador de Madariaga Copy Share Image
I was interested in ideas, not in visual products. I wanted to put painting again in the service of the mind. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Romantic art is the fuel and the spark plug of a Man's soul. It's task is to set a soul on fire… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The theme my generation explored was the relationship between capitalism and art. — Takashi Murakami Copy Share Image
If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
For me the top music though has to be Rock or Hip Hop and artists like Kanye West. — Steve Purdy Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to know what kind of music their favorite artist listens to. It feels good to. I don't try to dwell… — Brett Dennen Copy Share Image
If I have a voice to shine light on things or draw attention or provoke, as an artist people look to -… — Slowthai Copy Share Image
Me wanting to be an artist never really faded away. I knew that no matter what else I tried to pursue, my… — Saweetie Copy Share Image
Some people buy art because they're confident that it'll be a good store value, and this is kind of a recent phenomenon. — Larry Gagosian Copy Share Image
Painting is manual labor, no different from any other; it can be done well or poorly. — George Grosz Copy Share Image
An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Drawing and Success has one similarity, if you believe in it, you can create it. — @efiosiugbore Copy Share Image
Sometimes being an artist is a real drag. It can be incredibly bureaucratic. — Micah Lexier Copy Share Image