Ksenia Sobchak as president is like Sergei Shnurov as an artist. It's satire. It's a very high-level art project. — Ksenia Sobchak Copy Share Image
Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things. — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
“That is the way of science and art, it is beloved by your societies and criminalised by your cultures.” — Steve Merrick Copy Share Image
If an artist like Rajnikanth does a film like 'Manichitrathazhu,' it will be a failure. — P. Vasu Copy Share Image
Craft' gets a bad rap. Mediocre art is not caused by craft; it is caused by artists. Good art employs whatever craft… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
I don't even know how to sell a piece of artwork of mine because it's so personal. — Swizz Beatz Copy Share Image
“William, an artist is someone who combines a desperate need to be understood with the fiercest love of privacy-” — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
Most of the time, as an artist, I can be self-indulgent, fulfilling my own impulses, embracing imagery that contains poetry on my… — Clifford Ross Copy Share Image
As a child I drew objects that caught my eye outside the window of my room - the dry twigs, leaves and… — R. K. Laxman Copy Share Image
Appreciation of works of art requires organized effort and systematic study. Art appreciation can no more be absorbed by aimless wandering in… — Albert C. Barnes Copy Share Image
In civic life, I think that's where you can debate what is good taste and what is acceptable to other people, and… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“The point is this. The arts are not the pretty but irrelevant bits around the border of reality. They are the highways… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
The great French Impressionist painter Renoir, right at the end of his very long life, said to a friend, "I am just… — Roger Housden Copy Share Image
“If you see me sitting at a dining room table with a clean plate and bowl in front of me, you’ll know… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
My friends started having children after college, while I was pursuing this crazy acting career and living hand to mouth. Plus, all… — Edie Falco Copy Share Image
Well, I don't believe there are subjects that can't be painted, but there are a lot of things that I personally can't… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
My biggest love is still planets and stars. If I hadn't become an artist, I'd be an astronomer because I still love… — Peter Max Copy Share Image
“Wonderful craftsmanship, Simon decided with the expert eye of one who had played enough computer games to know art when he saw… — Sorin Suciu Copy Share Image
I paint the way some people write their autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages of my journal, and as… — Francoise Gilot Copy Share Image
Only the mature artist who works from a model is capable of seeing the body for itself, only he has the opportunity… — Philip Pearlstein Copy Share Image
My love of performers is not really different than my love for painters. Everyone's really high-strung and trying to do the best… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated. — John Berger Copy Share Image
The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
I love creating moments that feel bigger than just like an artist on stage. — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
I would think, as an artist, it's inescapable that you'll be affected by the world around you. — Dave Filoni Copy Share Image
“Artists are never poor, they just don't get enough time to make money !” — Brahmananda Patra Copy Share Image
You absorb so much from whatever your environment is, as an artist, and you learn to take from it what can help… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
I want the Arabic Granada, that which is art, which is all that seems to me beauty and emotion — Isaac Albeniz Copy Share Image
When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another. — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
I learned early that I could get attention from adults with my drawings. — Butch Hartman Copy Share Image
Art is one of the few places where you can put it in a constructive way where it won't burn you up… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
Any new producer starting up is to get investors' confidence. Investors are still very very wary of anything to do with the… — Ann Macbeth Copy Share Image
Art is a statement of one in the face of all; not a statement by one for the use of all. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
When I paint to please other people I tend to lose the free spirit creative edge. — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
“When, as a woman, you make yourself the work of art, and when you are then what everyone looks at, then whatever… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
There are so many reactions to art that make sense to me - but 'ick' means something. — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
Self-exposure is commendable in art only when it is of a quality and complexity that allows other people to learn about themselves… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Seeing that I am so busily occupied with myself just now, I want to try to paint my self-portrait in writing. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
