I'm often wary of using the word 'inspiration' to introduce my work -- it sounds too much like a sun shower from… — Shaun Tan Copy Share Image
I was inspired by the marvelous example of Giacometti, the great sculptor. He always said that his dream was to do a… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Artworks are especially good at helping our psyches in a variety of ways: they rebalance our moods, lend us hope, usher in… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
My eyelashes are the bristles of a paintbrush. Painting my world with every fluttering blink. But, it's not about the portrait when… — Shyanne Cook Copy Share Image
A German officer visited Picasso in his Paris studio during the Second World War. There he saw Guernica and, shocked at the… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
I don't have a lot of pressure on myself to be successful. I'm more of an artist. I just try to make… — Dean Potter Copy Share Image
An artist is a prophet and seer, not a paint craftsman or design maker, or reporter or entertainer... the artist has the… — Morris Graves Copy Share Image
Everything about the music industry takes away from you as an artist. They're always wondering what the next thing is: 'What do… — Gary Allan Copy Share Image
At some point I realized that the text was the painting and that everything else was extraneous. The painting became the act… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
Planning is design. As a designer what I tend to do, and what's different from being a painter, is that I interact… — Paula Scher Copy Share Image
If you accept the idea that photographers, or some of them, are actually artists, then you have to look at their work… — Tod Papageorge Copy Share Image
Mannerism always wants to be finished and doesn't enjoy the process. Genuine, truly great talent, however, finds its greatest satisfaction in the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Financial independence could be one of the factors, but most 65 plus artistes in our industry wish to continue working for the… — Ashok Saraf Copy Share Image
Research is always a very necessary part of my process because all of my books to this point have been historical. Time… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
As I see it, the major requirements for a strong and able rendering are an understanding of a work's structure, voicing, and… — Michael Hersch Copy Share Image
It is not about surpassing the masters who preceded us but more about opening new artistic vistas. It is about doing the… — Liu Dan Copy Share Image
The most important quality of art and its aim is illusion; emotion, which is often obtained by certain sacrifices of poetic detail,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
In a way, my paintings are like my children. They have many possibilities in life. You tell them, 'I believe that you're… — Norbert Bisky Copy Share Image
In his very rejection of art Walt Whitman is an artist. He tried to produce a certain effect by certain means and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I was lucky to work with some of the big names such as Anu Malik, Himesh Reshammiya, Sajid Wajid, Salim Sulaiman, Mithoon,… — Tulsi Kumar Copy Share Image
I love the art history ones because it's so little work for me. There's so many paintings that when I look at… — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
Like it or not, people tend to buy paintings to match their drapes, couch or carpet. I know you want them to… — Jack White Copy Share Image
Try to sing exactly like an artist you hear, and then all of the sudden, you'll feel what it feels like if… — Laura Bell Bundy Copy Share Image
If you follow nature you will not be able to vanquish the tragic in any real degree in your art... We must… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
The new Galliano will be even bigger and better... I love working, it's my therapy. I can draw until four in the… — John Galliano Copy Share Image
There are two avenues from the little passions and the drear calamities of earth; both lead to the heaven and away from… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I kind of had a quarter-life crisis before I did 'Rent.' I had done Glinda in 'Wicked' for a while. I had… — Annaleigh Ashford Copy Share Image
When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life, and it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“You can't dance to paintings. This is something Ben said, during one of our White Cube conversations, back when I was still… — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
I couldn't go into the haphazard drawing or the paintings, the splashing of paint. I wanted to go back to a completely… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Different directors have different techniques in the use of films. Cronenberg is very different in the way he works with film, and… — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
“I don't suppose there has been a moment in the world's history where more people felt themselves to be artists, of when… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
“What does Art do for us? It gives shape to our emotions, makes them visible, and, in so doing, places a seal… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Nothing convinces an artist more of the arbitrariness of the means to which he resorts to attain a goal - however permanent… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
In country music, we are still behind the times. Outside of country music, it wouldn't be new to anyone to be a… — Jimmie Allen Copy Share Image
The great poet is a great artist. He is painter and sculptor. The greatest pictures and statues have been painted and chiseled… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
No; for instead of delivering myself up to the full enjoyment of the as others do, I am always troubling my head… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
I'm aware of being a stranger, an outsider, and that's always an advantage for an artist. It means I can see from… — John Hirsch Copy Share Image
I'm just trying to be healthy because I want to survive longer as an artist. I want to go longer, and in… — Jackson Wang Copy Share Image
