In reality, all men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives trying to create a masterpiece. — Eddie Murphy Copy Share Image
I guess that's the big challenge of any art: Do you want to be something for everyone or everything for someone? — John Ross Bowie Copy Share Image
Like a true artist, never be satisfied that your writing cannot be improved. — Andrew McAleer Copy Share Image
There's nothing like a little fear or hunger to motivate one's inspiration. To take that away from a young artist can offer… — Ken Danby Copy Share Image
The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Art is more than a product of your efforts - it should be about feeling, life, attitude, soul. — Sergei Bongart Copy Share Image
From the moment you are born, you could die. I think as an artist it is important to meditate on that. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
The whole of nature is an endless demonstration of shape and form. It always surprises me when artists try to escape from… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
The client isn't quite satisfied and then the prostitute is always unsatisfied but is doing it just to make ends meet. And… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
If you're an artist trying to put out your own record on your own label, it's hard to get a distribution deal… — Aimee Mann Copy Share Image
Try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, a house, a field, or whatever. Merely think, 'Here is… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
There will never be a job that I do in this industry where I don't have to talk about being a woman.… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
In 'There Will Be Blood,' my character was someone who was an actor himself almost. He had a rehearsed quality about him.… — Paul Dano Copy Share Image
To a nonpainter, oil paint is uninteresting and faintly unpleasant. To a painter, it is the life's blood: a substance so utterly… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
The 'Women' had to do with the female painted through all ages, all those idols, and maybe I was stuck to a… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
Picasso took scraps of wallpaper, and instead of using paint and a brush, he used all the existing elements which he made… — Dries van Noten Copy Share Image
The word 'art' interests me very much. If it comes from Sanskrit, as I've heard, it signifies 'making. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
The kind of people who become graphic artists may not be mathematically inclined. They're artists, artistically inclined. — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
Yeah, I feel as an artist, making a movie is the top of the food chain - that's the peak, the climax… — Julia Fox Copy Share Image
“Canvas, then you must define the Bitmap upon which drawing will actually be performed. The” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I had grown up under the heroic spell of the Abstract Expressionist painters,” — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel. — Malcolm Cowley Copy Share Image
Like me, most of my fellow artists struggle within the confines of what is 'politically correct.' — Bez Copy Share Image
Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature. — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
The artist can't paint, sing, or dance without emotion: if he does, he is a machine masquerading as a person. — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
If you are intimidated by the artists who came before you, understand you too have a place, right next to them. — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
In the artist's recreation of the world we are enabled to see the world. — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
The life of an artist is like the life of a monk, a lewd monk if you like, very Rabelaisian. It is… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but rather the adapting of form to… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men… — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We need all kinds of artists. We have no need to destroy drawing. We lose so much. This wouldn't happen in music. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
All persistent practices in art have a creative function. They may serve several ends, but the chief one is the shaping of… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
What artists think about the world is often different from how we businessmen see it, and I find that an enriching experience. — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
The great challenge is how to make smart, intelligent art that can speak to everybody. — Vik Muniz Copy Share Image
Art takes different forms... But it represents something that is basic in all of us-our history. — George Clooney Copy Share Image
If you look at ancient Chinese paintings, you see mountains, but they are not real mountains; it is something the artists imagined. — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
That is the most important thing to me, what happens behind the closed doors in the studio and makes me an artist. — Luis Fonsi Copy Share Image
Art itself is knowledge of the spiritual world. Art is information from higher forces, by those who are talented. I'm not jiving. — Fela Kuti Copy Share Image
