The only albatross is the hurt you divine from what people say about your art — Stephen Stills Copy Share Image
Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
You have to give every portion of yourself to it. As an artist, that is just what you do - because we… — Sarah Bolger Copy Share Image
there is art and there is official art, there always has been and there always will be. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
The artist gazes upon a reality and creates his own impression. The viewer gazes upon the impression and creates his own reality. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Once people write criticism about something - and even in 1967 I was far from alone - they're assuming it's art, and… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
Drawing or painting allows the artist to know himself as a whole person. — Joseph C Zinker Copy Share Image
It's harder to make money when you're not a machine in a massive apparatus designed only to make money, but artists will… — Ken Baumann Copy Share Image
I'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Art is a thing where, the least likely thing that you think is going to be art, is precisely the thing that… — Richard Phillips Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a painter when I was a kid. And then, I had to make a living. I had a… — Colleen Atwood Copy Share Image
Things that influence me are my kids, their happiness, colorfulness, and vitality. My husband - he comes up with some great quotes… — Mary Engelbreit Copy Share Image
I like playing with that space between laughter and discomfort where your discomfort can also make you laugh, and you're confused about… — Hari Kondabolu Copy Share Image
The American dream is Chance the Rapper, or 'little Chano from 79th' who hails from Chicago's Southside and became the first artist… — Steve Stoute Copy Share Image
“He was an artist of rare ability, a self-taught artist, without teachers or schools, principles and rules, carried away only by the… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
I was the first woman to paint cleanly, and that was the basis of my success. From a hundred pictures, mine will… — Tamara de Lempicka Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
“Art is not life, and life is not art; but the beauty and horror of the human condition exists between the two.” — H.G. Mewis Copy Share Image
I think that is what art should be - good or bad is a different matter - but it should initiate a… — Harshvardhan Kapoor Copy Share Image
In my art I have tried to explain to myself life and its meaning. I have also tried to help others to… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
“El Sueno de la razon produce monstrous. (The sleep of reason breeds monsters)” — Francisco Goya Copy Share Image
I love art, painting, and drawing and studying art, like Rembrandt and Van Gogh. — Mickie James Copy Share Image
“Orlando said it was important for scientists to have minds kept open by literature, and souls touched by the creativity of art.” — Megan Frazer Blakemore Copy Share Image
When I'm doing a drawing, I'm personifying the place that is empty. A place that is unmarked. — Jim Denevan Copy Share Image
I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
A mature artist is at the same time aware of the futility of his achievement and the validity of the pursuit. — Jean Helion Copy Share Image
The political is not compatible with the artistic, because the former, in order to prove, has to be one-sided. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Every new skill you learn, every adventure you go on, every new thing you try, it only makes you a better artist. — Rachele Brooke Smith Copy Share Image
A musician, an artist, an architect: the man or woman who is not one of these is not a Christian. — William Blake Copy Share Image
“Like the French frontier police who thought that some of Picasso’s Cubist drawings were plans of the country’s defenses.” — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
Everything that would begin to make somebody a good student would tend to make him or her a poor artist, and vice… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. — Stella Adler Copy Share Image
I was always involved in art and when I went under contract at Warner Bros. at 18, it afforded me the possibility… — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
My willingness to explore and work freely is not without risk, and at times, I find myself caught in a bind... Knowing… — Brian Johnson Copy Share Image
A lot of people thought I got famous as a studio artist, then decided to cash in on it. But it actually… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
I think art's role is to investigate the way things are comprehended - the lenses through which people see. In conflict, these… — Hito Steyerl Copy Share Image
Working with Robin Williams, and Bob Hopkins, and Dustin Hoffman and you're talking about 'gods,' really, in our industry. You look at… — Dante Basco Copy Share Image
I was at one point thinking about being an art historian, when I was in school. And not being an artist, but… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
“He gave us music that reached into the ear like a lover's tongue and changed the color of our feelings. He presented… — Katie Waitman Copy Share Image
