I don't think it's wise to manufacture a painting, just for the sake of working... if the impulse isn't truly there, the… — Scott Kahn Copy Share Image
“To the artist, all problems of art appear uniquely personal. Well, that's understandable enough, given that not many other activities routinely call… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
I don't know Prince's music like the back of my hand, but I was always a fan of him as an artist… — Amine Copy Share Image
The biggest challenge for any craft person or artist is to accept the constraints of their medium and make something beautiful despite… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
“Rank asked why the artist so often avoids clinical neurosis when he is so much a candidate for it because of his… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
Before people outside of the Western European tradition started asking to be in there, the people who were accumulating objects for the… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
Perfectionism kills art. I find that if I criticise myself, it spoils the fun. You can get paralysed by analysis - it… — Geri Halliwell Copy Share Image
We called [the] process photomontage, because it embodied our refusal to play the part of the artist. We regarded ourselves as engineers,… — Raoul Hausmann Copy Share Image
Local television shows do not, in general, supply make-up artists. The exception to this is Los Angeles, an unusually generous city in… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“Ask for the grace to let God continue to sculpt or paint me in different images. Those images (good & bad) make… — Melissa Regas Copy Share Image
“Despite all the admiration M. Swann might profess for these figures of Giotto, it was a long time before I could find… — Proust Marcel Copy Share Image
When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation… — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
I'm so used to being behind the scenes. I didn't really want to be front and center. One of the elements of… — Arthur Fogel Copy Share Image
I know now that he who hopes to be universal in his art must plant in his own soil. Great art is… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
The darling schemes and fondest hopes of man are frequently frustrated by time. While sagacity contrives, patience matures, and labor industriously executes,… — Timothy Dwight V Copy Share Image
“If what you want is the effect of painting, then paint, Aurora. If what you want is truth, learn to use your… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Art and society was a lot more subject to sexism 50 years ago than it is now. Since that period, there have… — Matthew Slotover Copy Share Image
“The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work on the proceeds, is the most familiar… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Despite the fact that I'm not highly skilled in any visual art, aesthetics have always played a strong role in my art,… — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
Everything does come from nature. That's where you get new ideas. Just draw the landscape. I felt doing it with a bit… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
The artist draws a picture of a rose very nicely with all attention and artistic sense, and yet it does not become… — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Copy Share Image
“It has been my personal experience that as I allow the painting to speak I become lost, it is delicious and at… — Luther E. Vann Copy Share Image
The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform… — Saul Steinberg Copy Share Image
I think "artistic" simply means there's more of the creator in the thing. Whether it's painting or song or movie or game,… — Jenova Chen Copy Share Image
The artist must be blind to distinction between 'recognized' or 'unrecognized' conventions of form, deaf to the transitory teaching and demands of… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
The procedure was that an artist got a mural and then he would have anywhere from two to ten assistants depending on… — Lee Krasner Copy Share Image
The simple truth is that being a creative artist takes courage; it’s not a job for the faint of heart. It takes… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
In Comme des Garçons, I hardly do any sketches; there's no fittings on bodies, there's no models that come in and say,… — Rei Kawakubo Copy Share Image
Western artists stand as humans looking at nature; Asian artists try to be in nature. You become one with nature rather than… — Brice Marden Copy Share Image
How are we going to make painters by lecturing to them? We are going to make questioners, doubters, and talkers. We are… — William Morris Hunt Copy Share Image
When you're an artist, nobody ever tells you or hits you with the magic wand of legitimacy. You have to hit your… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
If God dislikes gays so much, how come he picked Michelangelo, a known homosexual, to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling while assigning… — Mike Royko Copy Share Image
The so-called "secondary market" has also always been something that I'm comfortable with. I'm not a dealer who turns his nose up… — Larry Gagosian Copy Share Image
In my teens I fancied myself an artist; I hung out with the eccentric art teacher at my high school, painted still… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
It is often we come the closest to the essence of an artist... in his or her pocket notebooks and travel sketchbooks...… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
The earth doesn’t care where death occurs. ...It’s the artist, by coming in and writing about it or painting it or taking… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
To this day, I've never had an assistant. I really insist on doing everything myself because I value the role of the… — Dario Robleto Copy Share Image
I tick so many boxes. Thats why I get a lot of gigs - because I can do the lectures, I can… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
I was born in a world of opera, theatre, films, poetry, art, and therefore, out of the wire, I made a stage.… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
I think record cover sleeves really led towards, but at the same time the album as we know it didn't come into… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
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