“Judging art is like caging a bird. Instead of seeing it soar, you can only watch it flutter.” — Ron Brackin Copy Share Image
Artists must literally go into a zone of intense seeing so the subjective and objective almost fuse together. — Burton Silverman Copy Share Image
The privilege of struggling artists is ... the life being buried in what we can't really afford of* what a gorgeous life!! — Hiroko Sakai Copy Share Image
I don't have a religious bone in my body but I believe artists (of any medium), in our best selves, are vessels… — Michael Hyatt Copy Share Image
Art is not created in a vacuum. That experience is something to be shared with a group of people, and to be… — Walton Goggins Copy Share Image
I knew that I must paint not what I saw, but only what was in me, in my soul. — Alexej von Jawlensky Copy Share Image
Having trained in theatre, that is what I enjoy most as it gives the scope to grow as an artist with every… — Rohini Hattangadi Copy Share Image
If it were art to overcome heresy with fire, the executioners would be the most learned doctors on earth. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I can't think outside of [bein' an artist]. That's how deep I am into this, and so focused that I really can't… — Tyga Copy Share Image
If you see something is going wrong within politics and the world today, then some Hip Hop artist is gonna come along… — Afrika Bambaataa Copy Share Image
I am old enough to remember the enormous fight over Tate Modern. It is such a part of our cultural landscape now,… — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
Paul Robeson once said that the artist has the responsibility to either help liberate the community or further oppress it. And I… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
I struggle every day with trying to be a better dad, a better husband, better musician, better artist. It consumes me, and… — Harry Connick, Jr Copy Share Image
“Now and then, in philosophers or artists, one finds a passionate and exaggerated worship of 'pure forms': no one should doubt that… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly,” I read in the collection of letters written by Camille Pissarro to… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
The abstraction, ostensibly, is simply for me the penetration of something that is more profound in many ways than rigidity of a… — Beauford Delaney Copy Share Image
The best way to begin is to say: 'Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have… — Balthus Copy Share Image
“...and any discussion of art vs. entertainment in the present cultural climate invites accusations of elitism and snobbery.” — Steven Moore Copy Share Image
A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The artist is the most interesting of all phenomena, for he represents creativity, the definition of man. — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Such is the never-failing beauty and accuracy of language, the most perfect art in the world; the chisel of a thousand years… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he has to make others see. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
You see the transformation that the arts have on young people. It changes their lives for the better. That's where my engagement… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
You have treated the arts as the cherry on the cake. It needs to be the yeast. — Mallika Sarabhai Copy Share Image
“Sometimes being hotheaded and doing it your own way and walking out on all the hot shit might be the right thing… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
We artists give daily thanks for the miracle of our planet and for the inclination and the capability to honour it. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
“He shouldn't say things like that in front of the artworks, especially when they're angry, but he always does.” — Donna K. Fitch Copy Share Image
“Being passionate about something is the most beautiful characteristic you can develop.” — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Art is a way to get strength from something that is life-affirming. It can be quite violent and still be life-affirming. — Val Kilmer Copy Share Image
Abstract painters: redefine your perspectives. Think in terms of the whole, not simply its parts. — Joshua L. Goldberg Copy Share Image
The artists who stick around for a while are the ones who go, 'Oh, that's cool, never thought of that. Ought to… — Brad Paisley Copy Share Image
When you are a real artist who is serious about your craft, you love good music. Period. — Lil' Kim Copy Share Image
Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could… — Lady Bird Johnson Copy Share Image
I liked sculpting better than painting. You have more freedom in sculpting. — Anthony Quinn Copy Share Image
No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, all the art that touched me was lens-generated, like Gerhard Richter, or Polke, Rauschenberg, Warhol. — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
Most art in the world does not have a capital 'A,' but is a way of turning everyday objects into personal expressions. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If it hurt me to have to give up a painting I figured it had to hurt them to write the check.… — Keariene Muizz Copy Share Image
“A few grass mats, some cave drawings, the heads of my enemies mounted on the wall ... it could be quite pleasant.” — Greg Farshtey Copy Share Image
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