Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Collage is like a hall of mirrors. Every direction you look, you see something different and visually stimulating. — Nita Leland Copy Share Image
“Pop art: only possible in an affluent society, where one can be free to enjoy ironic consumption.” — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement… — Emil Nolde Copy Share Image
Hitler was never more than average as an artist. His great talent was for the games of politics. — Volker Ullrich Copy Share Image
I always give money to a sidewalk con if the story is a good one, even if I don't believe a word… — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
I started at school. When I painted, all the girls would come and sit around me. I realised that this was a… — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
“Now let's talk about dreams. Yes. Dreams. I believe that dreams are one of the best thing in the world. It's so… — Happy Positivity Copy Share Image
The world will not give you an endowment for your finger-painting. Your finger-painting may be marvelous, but our government and society do… — Sara Benincasa Copy Share Image
I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
There are times when I love to play all kinds of complicated games in painting. But this is one case when I… — Nelson Shanks Copy Share Image
As the beautiful does not exist for the artist and poet alone—though these can find in it more poignant depths of meaning… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
Obviously, fans are the beginning and end for any artist. The minute your fans embrace you and accept you, you begin this… — Luke Bryan Copy Share Image
The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I never really took a proper art class in college. I just started reading art magazines and going to galleries. I was… — Larry Gagosian Copy Share Image
My parents were New Yorkers, and I was conceived in Los Angeles. My father was a makeup artist to Clint Eastwood and… — Michele Lee Copy Share Image
Perhaps art is a quest for the perfect, or even the imperfect. Reality always falls short on both sides. — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
The poster art over the years, art with social critique in it, has always been trying to make that point - that… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
The safest way to avoid the world is through art; and the safest way to be linked to the world is through… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
I'd like to think I'm a versatile artist without straying too far from who I am. — Calum Scott Copy Share Image
We should see the desire for neatness, the desire for sharp impressions, as a desire in art. — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
A picture is first of all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
That's what all painting is about, it”s space and light occupied by human presences. — Leon Kossoff Copy Share Image
The ability to portray people in still life and in motion requires the highest measure of intuition and talent. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I didn't have time to be anybody's muse; I was too busy rebelling against my parents and learning to be an artist. — Leonora Carrington Copy Share Image
Art is head space that is very exclusive: it shuts people out; other people cease to exist. — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
If I don't have anything better to do that day, I'll copy paintings, generally by people who have some relationship to the… — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
I didn't know how a working-class girl like me could possibly make a living in the art world — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
To paint from nature is to realize one's sensations, not to copy what is before one. — J. E. H. MacDonald Copy Share Image
An artwork should point in more than one direction, not be this sort of placating, self-demonstrating, witnessing element. — Luc Tuymans Copy Share Image
People forget that, as artists, you are constantly looking to evolve and grow. — Rocky Carroll Copy Share Image
Success gave me confidence as an artist. And now I'm able to do what I want without anybody thinking it's dumb. — Amy Lee Copy Share Image
I believe that art can make relevant and progressive contributions to culture and society. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
“Art should be seen with the heart, not with the eyes, for its beauty is in the energy it radiates.” — Charbel Tadros Copy Share Image
Andy Warhol: I think everybody should like everybody. Gene Swenson: Is that what Pop Art is all about? Andy Warhol: Yes, it's… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
Art, music, and philosophy are merely poignant examples of what we might have been had not the priests and traders gotten hold… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Art is the more spiritual side of education that really does saves lives and makes amazing individuals. — Mya Copy Share Image
Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
