What do great artists do when you see a world around you that's in turmoil? Some of the best artists make you… — Nile Rodgers Copy Share Image
“All I care for is the inclusion of my name in the list of the believers of the supremacy of human soul… — Annie Ali Copy Share Image
The reproach that superficial people formulate against Manet, that whereas once he painted ugliness, now he paints vulgarity, falls harmlessly to the… — Stephane Mallarme Copy Share Image
“I see Christianity's influence as a resplendent mural with many scenes, each depicted in bright, brilliant, and beautiful colors. Without Christianity, there… — John D. Woodbridge Copy Share Image
I think fashion, mishandled, can be quite toxic. It becomes about image and the cult of celebrity. I think when an artist… — Amanda Harlech Copy Share Image
The grandest and simplest things contain worlds within worlds. Seeing them is a matter of the right point of view, and your… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, things will look different;… — Jacques Lipchitz Copy Share Image
To be a creative person and be a professional, as an artist you have to be able to withstand pain, rejection, and… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
Never give up! Keep practicing - it's the only way to get better. But don't lose sight of the outside world. As… — Steve Landes Copy Share Image
I thought of a high school report I did on the Belgian artist Rene Magritte and a quote I once read from… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
My art should have a lightness and sweetness. Especially since it has heavy and triggering subject matters, I prefer to present it… — Zoe Buckman Copy Share Image
I concentrate, more than I think virtually any comic book artist has in the past, on the so-called mundane details of every… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
Criticism really used to hurt me. Most of these critics are usually frustrated artists, and they criticise other people's art because they… — Rosanna Arquette Copy Share Image
“An artist is identical with an anarchist,' he cried. 'You might transpose the words anywhere. An anarchist is an artist. The man… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just… — Jake Owen Copy Share Image
“True healing is not physical — it is a spiritual awakening to our True Self. If art is used for that purpose… — Judith Cornell Copy Share Image
Lucky people develop a relationship with a certain kind of art that becomes spiritual, almost religious, and doesn’t mean, you know, church… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Art must not be concentrated in dead shrines called museums. lt must be spread everywhere – on the streets, in the trams,… — Vladimir Mayakovsky Copy Share Image
My whole premise has been, right from the beginning, that it would take me a lifetime to learn to explain myself as… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
Art can contextualise and buttress fame. So rather than being antagonistic in the way Fugazi would have had it in 1989, particularly… — David Longstreth Copy Share Image
I never decided to become an art forger. I was aware of my talent at an early age, and I used it… — Wolfgang Beltracchi Copy Share Image
You know, I didn't write my books for critics and scholars. I wrote them for students and artists. When I hear how… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Painting is... a correspondence between what you are and what you see. It's a moment when something is holding together in such… — Milton Resnick Copy Share Image
“Even though it is made up of a for-profit and a non-profit sector, the world of art is an industry just like… — Lise Soskolne Copy Share Image
Although most of us know Vincent van Gogh in Arles and Paul Gauguin in Tahiti as if they were neighbors -- somewhat… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
The growth that an artist seeks is a fine combination of mastering craft, garnering an audience, maintaining one's mental health, and working… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
“Since the arrows of criticism aimed at these legendary masters, who directed the workshops of their day now frequently strike me in… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
There's something odd about telling people, artists, that they need to work for free to be pure while you're sitting there getting… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre; they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
There's no diploma in the world that declares you as an artist—it's not like becoming a doctor. You can declare yourself an… — Kara Walker Copy Share Image
I think people like to see the lives of artists that are legends. They always go through the dark periods and I… — Kristen Wiig Copy Share Image
It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Painter" "I said you are only keeping me here in the hospital, lying to my parents and saying I am madder than… — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
To produce pure proletarian art the artist must be at one with the worker; this is impossible, not for political reasons, but… — William Empson Copy Share Image
I'm doing what all modern artists do now, which is nothing - just sit around and dream about things. I'll do what… — Billy Al Bengston Copy Share Image
“Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see… — Robert Heinlein Copy Share Image
Few of the early houses in New England were painted, or colored, as it was called, either without or within. Painters do… — Alice Morse Earle Copy Share Image
Brooke Berman's voice is utterly distinct, and her book, detailing her nomadic artist's journey toward both a successful playwriting career and a… — Maria Dahvana Headley Copy Share Image
Glass is the most magical of all materials. It transmits light in a special way...Im pleased that my art appeals to so… — Dale Chihuly Copy Share Image
“All credit to the men who invented paint and canvas, but there’s more credit, eh? to the Raphaels and Holbeins who used… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
