“Artists are cannibals. We consume other artists, and they become part of us—flesh and bone—only to be spewed out again in our… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The art that we should be doing today, in the twenty-first century, is art that is not for the museum. — Tania Bruguera Copy Share Image
...in the face of all dangers, in what may seem a godless region, we move forward through the agencies of love and… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
We are concerned with the relationship between art and life. Contemporary art is only intelligible in terms of its relationship to our… — David Elliott Copy Share Image
As an artist, what do you think the biggest mistake you can make is? My vote for the biggest mistake is being… — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
I was able to endure and play a special part in music history. And I always managed to keep working, even if… — Merry Clayton Copy Share Image
Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting. — Bob Ross Copy Share Image
What is it they want from the man that they didn't get from the work? What do they expect? What is there… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
We’re flimflam artists. But remember, sonny, you can’t con people unless they’re greedy to begin with. W. C. Fields had it right.… — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
There may never be anything new to say, but there is always a new way to say it, and since, in art,… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Art is only great if it's uncodifiable. If art isn't scaring you, if it's not making you upset, then I don't think… — Dale Peck Copy Share Image
I always thought I was going to be an artist. All I ever did was draw. I only ever turned to writing… — Jonathan Hickman Copy Share Image
You have to find what makes you stable in the storm. Then, no matter what's happening round you, no matter what the… — Jimmy Smits Copy Share Image
I feel it's important, in presenting a work of art, that everything ends up serving a purpose. There are all these variables… — Landon Metz Copy Share Image
I'm really fortunate to have been to the schools I've been to, and to have the experiences I've had. And, partly since… — Steven C. Harper Copy Share Image
The most powerful part of the art is experiential, yet it's the hardest to describe because it's nonverbal. — Janet Echelman Copy Share Image
“Art does not exist only to entertain -- but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
I do worry because it takes all types to make our culture, to make our art. We need it to be available… — Neve McIntosh Copy Share Image
Art is more than a series of images that are disembodied. Art is objects that live in real places, economies, spaces, architecture. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
People ask who I am as an artist, who I am as a person. I don't ever want to tell them who… — Kip Moore Copy Share Image
As far as I can see, the history of experimental art in the twentieth century is intimately bound up with the experience… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I've always had a certain fascination. It's basically paint what you know, and this is what I grew up with. — Martin Mull Copy Share Image
The purpose of art is to collide the intellectual and visceral together at the highest speed possible. — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
I tried to be a house painter, but I couldn't stand all that paint all over me. — George Jones Copy Share Image
The artist's duty to himself is a combination of immense responsibility and immense irresponsibility. I think those two interlock. — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
I don't think you can prevent an artist from being and I don't think you can cause one to be. No one… — Robert Engman Copy Share Image
Doing acting opened up other creative outlets; it made me feel freer as an artist. — Common Copy Share Image
We all take from our artistic endeavors what we as individuals need, to make the process unique and fulfilling to ourselves. — Kim Weston Copy Share Image
If a man ain't nothin' else, then he's an artist. It's the only thing he can claim to be that nobody can… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
“They say all art—whether books, music, or visual—is a reaction to other art, and I believe that to be true.” — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
It's not just a boring exercise in pushing oil paint around a canvas. It's a way of opening a threshold to an… — Nelson Shanks Copy Share Image
Mushy novels, pretty pictures, pretty sculpture, decorations on the wall, nice parallel lines - make me sick. — Eva Hesse Copy Share Image
What is abnormal in Life stands in normal relations to Art. It is the only thing in Life that stands in normal… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Many have genius, but, wanting art, are forever dumb. The two must go together to form the great poet, painter, or sculptor. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's really weird being an artist, and I deal with that best by being myself. — Sigrid Copy Share Image
I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Like Chekhov, I am a collector of souls... if I hadn't been an artist, I could have been a psychiatrist. — Alice Neel Copy Share Image
