The meaning of an artwork is changing depending on who's looking at it - depending on what culture, depending on what time,… — Sarah Morris Copy Share Image
People are always trying to find the next groovy thing, and it hasn't gone back to painting... I'd like it to go… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
I spent much of my college life prepping for other careers, but I was always drawing and painting whenever I had free… — Julie Dillon Copy Share Image
I really admire people that do more than one thing. That's sort of the goal, right - to be an artist that… — Abbi Jacobson Copy Share Image
Most of the methods of training the conscious side of the writer-the craftsman and the critic in him- are actually hostile to… — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
You are right in demanding that an artist approach his work consciously, but you are confusing two concepts: the solution of a… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The citizen lives in each of us. In the days of Brezhnev, Andropov, Gorbachev and Yeltsin, I was constantly trying to suppress… — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share Image
I know my little 'dirty drawings' are never going to hang in the main salons of the Louvre, but it would be… — Tom of Finland Copy Share Image
I think we need to think of lots of ways to communicate. And we tried some at 350. We organised what they… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors.… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Martial arts was something that I wanted to do for the rest of my life, and I wasn't getting what I needed… — Michelle Waterson Copy Share Image
Artwork is not thought up in consciousness and then, as a separate phase, executed by the hand. The hand surprises us creates… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
Some artists, such as Jack Kirby, need no plot at all. I mean I'll just say to Jack, "Let's let the next… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
As the generalization goes about the art industry, people can be really challenging and thought-provoking in their thinking and questioning the status… — Lily Cole Copy Share Image
The art of compromise centers on the willingness to give up something in order to get something else in return. Successful artists… — Howard Raiffa Copy Share Image
Those dabs of paint and lines become art when form and flow are created out of lower-level perceptual elements. When they combine… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
Truthfully, I love being in the jungle. I love it when the make-up artists come to set, they come equipped with dirt… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
I have learned that what I have not drawn I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The work of art still has something in common with enchantment: it posits its own, self-enclosed area, which is withdrawn from the… — Adorno, Theodor W Copy Share Image
Certainly there is, for the American Negro artist who can escape the restrictions the more advanced among his own group would put… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Collage is a supersensitive and scrupulously accurate instrument, similar to a seismograph, which is able to record the exact amount of the… — Max Ernst Copy Share Image
“Some believe that art is the imitation of nature; in fact, nature is so sublime that it cannot be imitated. However noble… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
“Jo told me once that she was an old woman everywhere but in her studio. “There I’m only myself,” she’d said. Standing… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
When I was first painting the Monopoly guy I received a criticism. People said, "You're just painting cartoon characters, anyone can do… — Alec Monopoly Copy Share Image
Graffiti is like building a career. And there is a dialogue with the other artists out there mostly fellow writers because a… — KAWS Copy Share Image
The true art is being able to take whatever the writer's done, and if it is a bit flimsy or it is… — Billy Howle Copy Share Image
The arts reflect profoundly the most democratic credo, the belief in an individual vision or voice . . . The arts' belief… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
I have an independent record label called Favored Nations on which I released an album by an artist called Johnny A, who… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is… — Jane Harrison Copy Share Image
The business of art is to enlarge and correct the heart and to lift our ideals out of the ugly and the… — Florence Earle Coates Copy Share Image
Since I was a teenager, I had wanted to come to the United States to establish my name as a writer and… — Osama Alomar Copy Share Image
Go into yourself and test the deeps in which your life takes rise; at its source you will find the answer to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The experience of being in between-between the time we leave home and arrive at our destination; between the time we leave adolescence… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
“Future civilizations - better civilizations than this one - are going to judge all men by the extent to which they've been… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
As a result of World War II, European artists migrated to America, enlarging the scene and diminishing Paris as the center. America… — Arne Glimcher Copy Share Image
Basically all the art we know in history books, the business model for that art was not unit sales. It was patronage.… — Jack Conte Copy Share Image
I'm no expert in what country artists go through or how country audiences would react, but I'll say that the work I… — Chris Carmack Copy Share Image
Well, we have certainly produced great art before we did this. In my view, there are any number of areas of government… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what's personal to you. You have to be personal… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
