Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I am always looking for inspiration. I always live in big cities where I can go every day to a museum, see… — Blanca Li Copy Share Image
What makes a set of lines and colors into art is the relationship between this line and that one; the way one… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
The arts are what makes life worth living. You've got food, you've got shelter, yeah. But the things that make you laugh,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality. At times monstrous… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
She's a shiksa goddess and a trapeze artist, all of that. She can fix the truck...she's outta this world...she's bold, inventive and… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
The disintegration of the culture starts with the artist. I'm on a crusade to turn the tide in the arts, to restore… — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
In art the Greeks were the children of the Egyptians. The day may yet come when we shall do justice to the… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
In working on a drawing or a painting, one can rework and rework and rework and change ideas until you get it… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
The visual arts must communicate to the human spirit, forcing individuals to reflect on themselves and their existence beyond their own self-interest. — Dean Mitchell Copy Share Image
Often when people are claiming that they are not creative, they mean that they are not artists, writers, athletes, or any other… — Michael Ray Copy Share Image
I have always dressed a little bit differently, even when I was in school. I would wear skirts over pants because I… — Stacie Orrico Copy Share Image
Almost every evening, either I went to [Georges] Braque's studio or Braque came to mine. Each of us had to see what… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
That's the thing about great artists: They find the thing that's most obvious to themselves, what's most conscious and natural, and they… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
For an artist that's been in the game for a while; you understand how to put together a great record and understand… — Trina Copy Share Image
“Leonardo became known in Milan not only for his talents but also for his good looks, muscular build, and gentle personal style.… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
I had to see if I'm a real filmmaker. I mean, I have proven myself in movies and franchises, but am I… — Jon M. Chu Copy Share Image
“Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings. Things… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Artists don't really want to be marginalized. They believe that everybody should be able to appreciate the experience that an artist gives… — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image
You can’t control what other people think about your art. Think about the part of yourself that you can control, which is… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Can you remember how you felt when you were communicating through your artwork? Not just the sense of completion, but the sense… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
[Documentary photography] is unwittingly literary, because it is nothing other than an observation of contemporary life apprehended at the right moment by… — Pierre Mac Orlan Copy Share Image
If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
As a new artist there are so many new ways to put music out there where you don't necessarily need a label… — Ashanti Copy Share Image
The ability to make new work from old work - especially if that new work is different enough that it doesn't dent… — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
My wife was the first art collector in the family, and I didn't become interested until around 1973. The first important artwork… — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
Surprisingly, I don't throw away that much. I don't move forward with a lot of things unless they're going somewhere. You also… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
Prophets and artists tend to be liminal and marginal people, "edgemen," who strive with a passionate sincerity to rid themselves of the… — Victor Turner Copy Share Image
Artists should re-emphasize performance and de-emphasize recording. You always make more money if you have a healthy performing life than you will… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
The timelessness is completely important. It's partly about removing things that would become in some way nostalgic. There aren't really any markers… — Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Copy Share Image
The Door Without a Key is the Door of Dreams; it is the door by which the sensitive escape into insanity when… — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
You just have to work really hard and throw everything into it. ... It's really hard to be an artist, and even… — Dana Schutz Copy Share Image
If every museum in the New World were emptied, if every famous building in the Old World were destroyed and only Venice… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
As the artist matures she is continuously shaken by what she manages to discover: by the earth shifting beneath her feet once… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
Overall, I think any opportunity to expose people to art on a mass level - to have some kid in Oklahoma say… — Jeffrey Deitch Copy Share Image
I need not print a line, nor conjure with the painter's tools to prove myself an artist ... Whilst in other spheres… — J. D. Sedding Copy Share Image
“Every form of art is another way of seeing the world. Another perspective, another window. And science –that’s the most spectacular window… — Claudia Gray Copy Share Image
As a fan of music, there's nothing I hate more than hearing an artist write a new album off the back of… — Jessica Origliasso Copy Share Image
I never thought of what I was doing as a way to sell the NFL. I was making movies about a sport… — Steve Sabol Copy Share Image
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