It's quite scary when academics start dictating to artists that they should be politically correct or follow certain rules of behavior -… — Pieter Hugo Copy Share Image
The more I've gotten interested in writing about history and making sense of myself within the continuum of history, the more I've… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
To mention only contemporaries, Delacroix, Corot, Millet, Rousseau, Courbet are masters. And finally [I like] all those [painters] who loved and had… — Alfred Sisley Copy Share Image
The current memoir craze has fostered the belief that confession is therapeutic, that therapy is redemptive and that redemption equals art, and… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with working with no artist from any type of demographic, but you've still got to maintain what you do… — Jadakiss Copy Share Image
Art cannot single-handedly create enthusiasm... it merely contributes to enthusiasm and guides us to be more conscious of feelings that we might… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The only people playing the roles of classic rock stars are hip-hop artists, now. Kanye's stage persona, and the way he approaches… — Jack Antonoff Copy Share Image
It is true that there are not many smiling faces in modern art galleries. Happy art is much harder to make. Art… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
I think a lot of male artists should and probably are thinking in the same ways. The culture has moved in a… — Laura Owens Copy Share Image
“Ryu laughed. "You know what I mean. A absentminded as you are, it's a true wonder you can be so focused when… — H.J. Brues Copy Share Image
Generally I draw every day just to keep my hand in. I draw while I'm sitting on the Tube or in restaurants.… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
I never took drug to escape. I know some people take drugs to escape, but I took drugs because I was an… — Creed Bratton Copy Share Image
I looked long and carefully at the picture of a stag painted by Landseer - the style was good, and the brush… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new… — Jack Kroll Copy Share Image
You were probably steered benignly away from things at school when you were a kid — things you liked — on the… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially a flat… — Maurice Denis Copy Share Image
My paintings are inspirational for they allow the observer to experience infinite viewpoints and perceptions. They are not abstract for they represent… — Freydoon Rassouli Copy Share Image
You are always looking for already-felt emotions, just as you like to get an old pair of trousers back from the cleaners,… — Francis Picabia Copy Share Image
When I was a kid I was not a good student. I went to the University of Colarado, my grades were poor.… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
I am not a therapist. I am not a spiritual leader. These elements are in the art: it is therapeutic, spiritual, social… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
When you are on a major record label, you're just forced to think big. You are forced to think about things like… — Graham Colton Copy Share Image
Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming… — Aaron Scharf Copy Share Image
One can do good things without being very much of a harmonist or a colourist. It is sufficient to have a sense… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
As a young person, you have no fixed address, no studio, no money for materials, so I made things sort of on… — David Salle Copy Share Image
People ask me, 'What happened in your life that might have pushed you as an artist to get to where you are… — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
I know that to paint the sea really well, you need to look at it every hour of every day in the… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Like most people, I've always felt using words like 'best' when applied to art is a fun way for critics to stay… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
In my own art, I try to use my personal voice and effort to enable some Chinese people to see the possibilities… — Cai Guo-Qiang Copy Share Image
Women can also be creative in total isolation. I know excellent women artists who do original work without any response to speak… — Elaine de Kooning Copy Share Image
I'm personally looking for artists that are along the lines of today's pop stars. Whether it be a Rihanna or a Justin… — L.A. Reid Copy Share Image
If the average jazz artist uses his head and at the outset of his career realizes he won't play as well at… — Oscar Peterson Copy Share Image
Truth and reality in art begin at the point where the artist ceases to understand what he is doing and capable of… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
Dawes kind of, on purpose, were like, "Let's realize that we're going to make less money, but let's try to get as… — Taylor Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Mystical groups such as the Theosophical Society and the Rosicrucians turned tarot into an American fad during the early 1900s. Many American… — Brendan I. Koerner Copy Share Image
I have to tell you, you can't have an ego when you're an actor. A lot of actors have them, but in… — Josh Brolin Copy Share Image
Were we to aim in every case at the kind of supreme beauty exemplified by Sta Maria della Salute, we should end… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
We're in an era where the demand is for immediate hits that are destined to become obsolescent. Six months later, everyone forgets… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
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