Many persons feel art, some understand it; but few both feel and understand it. — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
Any artist will tell you he's really only interested in the stuff he's doing now. He will, always. It's true, and it… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I have spent a lot of time in the art world, and I guess I do listen to how people speak. I'm… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
You can't really have art without having a sense of community as art is for others to enjoy as well. — Jaime Zevallos Copy Share Image
There is the artwork that you physically make but there's also the journey that happens on the inside. — Leonardo Drew Copy Share Image
Every time I started painting it was like a new experience, but they all came out the same. — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
Only when you are moved by a painting should you buy it. Being moved is what collecting is all about. — Walter Annenberg Copy Share Image
Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“Artists have to learn how to paint what's in the mirror, even if what they see is a total (expletive) show...If you… — Shaun David Hutchinson Copy Share Image
“There was something different about the artists in the world. It almost seemed as if they felt things differently, deeper maybe. They… — Brittainy C. Cherry Copy Share Image
No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
As I've picked up more responsibilities in life, I've found nearly every one of those extra burdens drains me in a way… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
My goal is to tell good stories. And to try as best I can to do something new with acting. To learn… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
“Alma is in a painting phase, and the people she paints are all the color of mold, look like they've just been… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
Great artists are products of their own time: they do not spring forth fully equipped from the head of Jove, but are… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Music needs to have a real sacred setting for people to understand it. You've got to start things off with friends who… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
An artist's working life is marked by intensive application and intense discipline. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public. — James Broughton Copy Share Image
I used to want to be a writer or a painter, although I couldn't paint very well. — Jisoo Copy Share Image
I tell my friends about my conversations with my father - conversations with an artist. — Ray Conniff Copy Share Image
Denigrating art you don't understand doesn't hurt the art - it reveals something about your willingness to learn. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Every work of art belongs to his time. I would not paint again the Mona Lisa in the third dimension. — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
The worst thing that can happen to you as an artist is for you to lose faith in yourself. — Ann Magnuson Copy Share Image
Once the fired stone is out of the kiln, it is still possible to mentally reconstruct it in its original form. — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
The greatest artists like Dylan, Picasso and Newton risked failure. And if we want to be great, we've got to risk it… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
The desert is no longer a landscape, it is a pure form produced by the abstraction of all others. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The spot paintings, the spin paintings, they're all a mechanical way to avoid the actual guy in a room, myself, with a… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher! — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
As a solo artist, I just felt cemented in front of the mike stand. There was very little time to play with… — Tommy Shaw Copy Share Image
It should be not only a synergy, but a complicity between the viewer and the artist, and so I'm wide open to… — Leonardo Drew Copy Share Image
We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
That's where the most beautiful art is always created, when you have someone not worried about what the outcome is. — James Ransone Copy Share Image
Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, even if only in… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
If I have a session with an artist who I've never worked with before, they don't have to meet my parents, you… — Syd Copy Share Image
ART is domination. It's making people think that for that precise moment in time there is only one way, one voice. Yours. — Maria Callas Copy Share Image
“As an artist, her imagination isn't fettered by the constraints of reality.” — Sarah Cross Copy Share Image
I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to. — Nancy Sinatra Copy Share Image
Besides a princess and a ballerina and a firefighter and a vet, I think I wanted to be an artist. — Alison Sudol Copy Share Image
The statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
