“I go to art more as something that's going to give me some clue as to how to live your life, or… — Penguin Classics Copy Share Image
As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
“I have never wanted to paint thickly - paint tubes are much too expensive. But one way or another, the painting has… — Jean-Paul Riopelle Copy Share Image
Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“Andy Warhol would like to have been Edie Sedgwick. He would like to have been a charming, well-born débutante from Boston. He… — Jean Stein Copy Share Image
I want to overhear passionate arguments about what we are and what we are doing and what we ought to do. I… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
It is because artists do not practise, patrons do not patronize, crowds do not assemble to reverently worship the great work of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I think the best actors in the world are here in New York City. And this city is just so vibrant the… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
Corporations have steered the industry into what it wants, and a lot of times they will make artists record what it wants… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
“By the end of the twentieth century Interpol was ranking art crime as one of the world’s most profitable criminal activities, second… — Laney Salisbury Copy Share Image
Art does not imitate, but interpret. It searches out the idea lying dormant in the symbol, in order to present the symbol… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
This image of wanting to be an artist - that I would in some way become an artist -was very strong. I… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
My father was a taxidermist, not a run-of-the-mill profession for a West Indian immigrant. Having given up on becoming a vet, he… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
I find myself walking these lines. Like I might be an artist, but I also might be an activist. And I'm trying… — Chris Jordan Copy Share Image
In the USA, we learn "art history" as Western art history, and the history of Asian, or African art is a special… — Jay L. Garfield Copy Share Image
I really love art and I always have in every single different form and I just hope that I'm able to give… — Joss Stone Copy Share Image
“When Aaron arrived at my place—a ground-floor studio fitting my full-size bed, desk, and TV—he came bearing gifts: The Artist’s Way by… — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
I wish you to be persuaded that success in your art depends almost entirely on your own industry; but the industry which… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
I think what's happened in art criticism, or art thinking, in last 30 or 40 years is a confusion between the "what"… — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
I would definitely say I'm a country girl at heart; I wanted to make sure that I established my music first at… — Gabby Barrett Copy Share Image
I think 'The Book of Mormon' has made that difference in its field. It changed the game. It's something that 20 years… — Josh Gad Copy Share Image
The only thing that you might see that is a planned tweet is if I am tweeting about an event or promoting… — Bryan-Michael Cox Copy Share Image
Once, I'd written a Western story, and one of the panels was just a hand holding a six-shooter, and there was a… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
Out of an intuitive experience of the world comes a continuous flow of novel distinctions. Purely rational understanding, on the other hand,… — Ellen Langer Copy Share Image
Maybe I'd be a storyboard artist. Graphic novel/comic book artist. Backup dancer. Singer. It would be cool to focus on one of… — Jade Hassoune Copy Share Image
“Eight years ago, I wouldn't have painted this subject I'm starting now: a clearing filled with grasses. It would have seemed too… — Martin Gayford Copy Share Image
I just asked myself, what piece of that man's soul did he just chew off and swallow to get next week's assignment?… — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
People tweet me all the time and tell me how much they love it, how they can't wait for the show to… — Glen Mazzara Copy Share Image
I think the audience is getting it right, you know what I mean? And that's kind of rare when the artist feels… — Syd Copy Share Image
You really can't be a good artist if you can't say what you really feel. And people may be offended, but, you… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his… — Gerald Scarfe Copy Share Image
What's very important from my point of view is that there is one web … Anyone that tries to chop it into… — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
I live for art. I love entertaining people, making them smile and think. I love to know that a little piece of… — Jackson Rathbone Copy Share Image
The artist that had the biggest impact on me was Michael Jackson. He was my Elvis and Beatles. When I was 15,… — Michael Buble Copy Share Image
A painting has its own existence and reality, and I make changes freely to meet the painting's needs. This sometimes takes me… — Mary Beth McKenzie Copy Share Image
What I find horrible nowadays is that people are always trying to find a personality for themselves. Nobody bothers about what you… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
[Photography is a] hair-raising joy ride in a medium that, despite being a mechanical trick, can break down the division between mind… — Philip-Lorca diCorcia Copy Share Image
I just think it was because I was known as a lyricist that's what people only wanted to hear that from me.… — Big Daddy Kane Copy Share Image
Velazquez found the perfect balance between the ideal illustration which he was required to produce, and the overwhelming emotion he aroused in… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I would hate to be a new artist or writer in town today. But somehow the cream continues to rise. If there's… — Steven Curtis Chapman Copy Share Image