… an outlaw gulch, a haven for draft resisters, struggling artists, and drug addicts…a camp for semi-demented adults… Venice is like the… — Sara Davidson Copy Share Image
“Art serves to confront that which is outside order, to give form to the obscene. In the process, it opens it to… — Jennifer Birkett Copy Share Image
Billions of photos are shot every year, and about the toughest thing a photographer can do is invent an original, deeply personal,… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
When I talk about my artist parents, people imagine a bohemian environment and think, 'Aha, so that's where he gets it from!'… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
We're living history all the time, in the papers, in the news, you think about stuff and it goes into your brain… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
I feel that part of my life's artwork is creatively dealing with all this negativity and anger and rage and hatred coming… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
I want to stay in the writing long enough to become a falling star of the up-and-coming genre, then a has-been known… — Daryl Gregory Copy Share Image
A lot of what I do is about being in the moment and I think that's hard for people to get. I… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
I'm not a haiku artist, but I wanted to use the phrase 5, 7, 5 in the melody that flows over time.… — Terry Bozzio Copy Share Image
Great sculptors and artists spend countless hours perfecting their talents. They don't pick up a chisel or a brush and palette, expecting… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
If artists slowly learn how their business works, they'll have the ability to grow at any rate they can dream up, but… — Tom DeLonge Copy Share Image
Some people feel that it's controversial if I say that because my dad is known as a political artist. But I don't… — Sean Lennon Copy Share Image
He paints for the blind, and we are the blind, and he lets us see for sure what we saw long ago… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
My favorite thing as a performing artist is to get a pile of raw material from a writer who says, 'Will you… — Alice Ripley Copy Share Image
I hate darkness. Claude Monet once said that painting in general did not have light enough in it. I agree with him.… — Joaquin Sorolla Copy Share Image
If Kubrick had lived to see the opening of his final film, he obviously would have been disappointed by the hostile reactions.… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
In drawing after drawing, pastel after pastel, painting after painting, the contours of Degas's dancing figures become, at a certain point, darkly… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“Why not paint your own sky, and not leave it to others to add colour to your canvas? Why not take the… — Michelle Geaney Copy Share Image
I am a very big fan of Brian Eno, of his work as an artist and making his music, and as a… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
“Artistocrats were a queer lot - marrying for money, staying with spouses they couldn’t stand, living by all manner of foolish rules.… — Kady Cross Copy Share Image
I was only to see Mr. Chaplin once after 'The Kid.' A great artist, one of the greatest, but I'm afraid I… — Jackie Coogan Copy Share Image
Right before I got 'Sons of Anarchy,' I actually quit acting for 18 months and didnt read a single script, and I… — Charlie Hunnam Copy Share Image
What seems most significant to me about our movement is that we have freed painting from the importance of the subject. I… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
Every separate sector of artistic creation has its own basic rules . . . data which govern it. They are contained in… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
There are moments in time when the coincidence of art and reality interact to allow us a glimpse into the context of… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
It is most certainly a good thing that the world knows only the beautiful opus but not its origins, not the conditions… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
The time has passed for our sensations in painting to be whispered. We wish them in the future to sing and re-echo… — Umberto Boccioni Copy Share Image
Everything is starting to make a little more sense to me now. I love the idea that, first of all when I… — Courtney Jaye Copy Share Image
I'm old fashioned. I really think you should know how to draw before you start painting. I use charcoal and graphite; I… — Peter Falk Copy Share Image
“Eminent doctors warned against Munch's Pointillist canvas, Spring Day on Karl Johan, counselling that looking at such pictures brought on spotty conditions… — Sue Prideaux Copy Share Image
Why spend the afternoon making a meal that will be gone in an hour," she'd ask us, "when in the same amount… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
The danger for any artist whose work is both recognizable and critically acclaimed is complacent repetition - the temptation to churn out… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Those arts which are, to be sure, not finite, as geometry and arithmetic, do not suffer adornment; others, contrarily, are rather subject… — Gerolamo Cardano Copy Share Image
Science begins with the world we have to live in, accepting its data and trying to explain its laws. From there, it… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
I feel like I've got the skills to be at the top, I feel like I've got the mind-state, so basically what… — SonReal Copy Share Image
Proficiency in art is a contract with your self and the empowerment of your self. Not all of us demand or even… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Pele featured in the Brazilophile imaginary as the a figure of non-utile excess, a carefree artist in the Nietzschean sense, indifferent to… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
If you see a wonderful archaic Greek marble object in a museum, it's not only that it's beautiful, but what comes to… — Michael Steinhardt Copy Share Image
In the past, traditional art was based on making manifest what is enduring in man, like love, jealousy, hatred, envy, and greed...… — Tawfiq al-Hakim Copy Share Image
“Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
