Shading is more like copying. And certainly I do copy, but I'm making drawings, and I'm not trying to make them with… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
Often times, if you're a bit of a crossover artist, audiences see you as only one thing. — Tituss Burgess Copy Share Image
Artists die twice. First creatively. Then physically. The second one is the easiest. — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
Every artist has a central story to tell, and the difficulty, the impossible task, is trying to present that story in pictures — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
I think this is true for all artists. My senses are very important to me. — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man. — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
If I painted a picture for you,& you say there's no paint!!You officially lost your imagination — Manotti Street Copy Share Image
Real greatness is often humble, simple, and unobtrusive. It is not easy to trust ourselves and our actions without public affirmation. Some… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
In general, you have great artists who have died far too early and who have left great cultural impact. If you look… — Simon de Pury Copy Share Image
Somewhere within all of us is a wordless center, a part of us that hopes to be immortal in some way, a… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
I didn't really do many business ventures throughout my career because I would have an idea and then before I'd have a… — Nas Copy Share Image
I do not think that a museum needs to engage with pop culture in order to make itself interesting to museumgoers. Museums… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
“If only I were articulate to paint in the frail medium of words what I see and know and possess incorporated in… — Jack London Copy Share Image
The price we sell things for is not important. What is important is we sell art that has to be replaced. You… — Jack White Copy Share Image
What a beautiful testament to the creative spirit and its true motives, to creative contribution coming from a place of purpose rather… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
As an artist or musician, you want to be remembered for the music you make. — Isaac Hanson Copy Share Image
Artists now decline to go to bed with beauty, fearing they'll wake up with kitsch. — Mike Curran Copy Share Image
Why should art continue to follow nature when every other field has left nature behind? — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
“I’m not Helen Keller—I’m Van Gogh. It’s not that I can’t hear, it’s that I don’t use my ears.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
W]hat makes a work of art ‘good’ for you is not something that is already ‘inside’ it, but something that happens inside… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
“O wayfarer! Yearn finds quench, not in meadows, seashores or altitude of mountain peaks; but when being becomes dance.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
It's always good when you can bring two artists together who are totally different. — Fantasia Barrino Copy Share Image
If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for? — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
On one occasion in 1987 the security police came looking for me because of a drawing that I'd published. — Jonathan Shapiro Copy Share Image
“I'm an artist. I'm an artist and I'm going to make art! Art arty art art.” — Andy Beirsack Copy Share Image
The only problem in art is to achieve a balance between the subjective and the objective. — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The impact of a conscious artist is necessary, and it ripples through the world. — Common Copy Share Image
A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
“And that’s the best we can hope for from art, you know? That it changes you for the better. That it lights… — Ben Monopoli Copy Share Image
“Artist get better by sharpening their skills or by acquiring new ones; they get better by learning to work, and by learning… — David Bayles and Ted Orland Copy Share Image
All the great artists illustrate their approach to life in the work they make. — Genesis P-Orridge Copy Share Image
If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens. — Grandma Moses Copy Share Image
Business art is the step that comes after Art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
My job as art critic is to watch artists dance naked in public, and then I will, in turn, dance naked critically… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention. — Alan Parsons Copy Share Image
Who would know that the most beautiful pieces of art would come form the most ugliest situations — Amir Brown Copy Share Image
The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
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