“Every artist thus keeps within himself a single source which nourishes during his lifetime what he is and what he says.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Dance as the narration of a magical story; that recites on lips, illuminates imaginations and embraces the most sacred depths of souls.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars — Banksy Copy Share Image
I never really wanted to be an artist. I just really wanted to write songs. But, of course, I can't get placement… — Bryson Tiller Copy Share Image
Art doesn't alter things. It points things out, but it doesn't alter them. It can't, no matter what a painter wants to… — Arthur Boyd Copy Share Image
I love when an artist can stand by themselves and play their guitar and hold a crowd, but I also love bells… — Kelsea Ballerini Copy Share Image
When you are able to make a living with your job as an artist, that means you have an audience and you… — Rokia Traore Copy Share Image
The only way to survive is to intently focus on how the art world operates. Once you understand how things work, you… — Mark Edward Copy Share Image
Modern conquerors can kill, but do not seem to be able to create. Artists know how to create but cannot really kill.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I get a great laugh from artists who ridicule the critics as parasites and artists manqués — sucha horrible joke. I can’t… — Manny Farber Copy Share Image
A lot of teams don't think I'm physical, although some do. Some say I can be physical at times, but they don't… — Rahim Moore Copy Share Image
It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you. But… — Omari Hardwick Copy Share Image
Don’t go to a museum with a destination. Museums are wormholes to other worlds. There are ecstasy machines. Follow your eyes to… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
[On art:] I believe that it not only enriches the spiritual life, but that it makes one more sane and sympathetic, more… — Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Copy Share Image
We who are in the arts are at the risk of being in a popularity contest rather than a profession. If that… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
I must have the personal dialogue, the private time, with each painting in progress. I can't share it with anyone until it's… — Ken Danby Copy Share Image
A great painter can paint something really complex, but they can crystallize it into something really simple. — Jenova Chen Copy Share Image
I think every person is so unique. I think every woman is so unique, every man is so unique, every artist is… — Banks Copy Share Image
I wish I could paint that picture. As a 20-year-old kid, that was a big thrill. — Joe Torre Copy Share Image
...sometimes we enter art to hide within it. It is where we can go to save ourselves, where a third-person voice protects… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
I've just grown as a person. I think that's what helped me grow as an artist. — Fabolous Copy Share Image
It's almost required with major artists that there's some duality. And I've got duality everywhere. — George Michael Copy Share Image
The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There can be no good art that is international. Art to be vigorous and gesund must use the material at hand. — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
No idea stays pure. Even the flowering of art isn't pure. And the sun has spots. — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Oakland has always had artists attempting to define the immense beauty and ridiculousness around them. — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas upon… — Rudolph Valentino Copy Share Image
It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you. — Omari Hardwick Copy Share Image
My dads great. Hes an amazing artist. A sculptor. Hes wonderful and supportive. I love going to museums with him - we… — Grace Gummer Copy Share Image
The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: does the painter's emotions come across? — Franz Kline Copy Share Image
I think it's very hard to go into the same business as your family when you're an artist. — Aya Cash Copy Share Image
The transposition that a painter makes with an original vision gives to the representation of nature a new interest. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
The artist can be above political parties, he can belong in a political party, he can act in politics. — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
I think of myself as the little girl Renoir painted with the watering can. I loved the garden colors. — Alexandra Stoddard Copy Share Image
To teach is to learn... If we ever think we know all there is to know about our creativity we are dead… — Richard Pousette-Dart Copy Share Image
But who said art has to cost money? And therefore, who says artists have to make money? — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
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