Every writer has to make an emotional journey from artist sitting in attic to being part of a business. The writer of… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
“The customs people were angered by my drawings. I told them I didn’t make the drawings to cause trouble; I was an… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
Artists and creative workers - people who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
My books and records are arranged according to subject, and within each subject, they're alphabetical by author or artist. The music tapes… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
There must be so many people who have various artistic talents that, for whatever reason, just have no way of expressing them.… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
I've really come into my own as an artist. I'm much more sure of my identity and understand it much better, and… — Marina and the Diamonds Copy Share Image
I love Tom Waits because he's an artist who makes me not afraid to get old, and that's rare. I think it's… — Matt Bellamy Copy Share Image
Its very important to me to be respected by true talented artists and great minds than by the masses who need to… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
They are damn good projects - excellent projects. That goes for all the projects up there. You know some people make fun… — Harry Hopkins Copy Share Image
“My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind… — Yann Martell Copy Share Image
If I were making paintings of a bowl of fruit it would still be viewed through some sort of political lens, because… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I once heard some idiot on the radio saying that all great art has suffering as its dominant theme, and that the… — Bart Yates Copy Share Image
The great thing about doing art shows is you get to meet the people who are interested in your art, and I… — Paul Stanley Copy Share Image
I've had a period of drawing on canvas in black - with some of my early images coming thru -, think the… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
The diseased pride [of artistic individualists] was not even conscious of a public interest, and would have found all political terms utterly… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
From a slight, undetermined drawing, where the ideas of the composition and character are just touched upon, the imagination supplies more than… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
“... Blake is a ready-made patron saint for those wanting to elevate their marginality, dissent, and queerness into strength. The relative futility… — Andrew Elfenbein Copy Share Image
If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much.… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
The realization that reason and anti-reason, sense and nonsense, design and chance, consciousness and unconsciousness, belong together as necessary parts of a… — Hans Richter Copy Share Image
When you're young and starting out, a lot of artists think they know exactly who they are. There are others who come… — Aldous Harding Copy Share Image
An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I do think more should be done for people from less financially secure backgrounds to come into the arts and feel comfortable… — Jamie-Lee O'Donnell Copy Share Image
My question about my art and my music has always been, 'Am I good, or am I good because?' I'm not the… — K'naan Copy Share Image
I think the biggest way of connecting with people is through your music and kind of saying what you want to say… — Chris Young Copy Share Image
As a street artist, I'm used to sharing my stuff with the public. It's a communal experience. I've learned not to be… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
The sculptor who deals with form seeks to imprison beauty in a marble statue that will withstand the ravages of time during… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
“Critical art is an art that aims to produce a new perception of the world, and therefore to create a commitment to… — Jacques Rancière Copy Share Image
These artists all have some kind of message to the public. These messages can be quite personal, maybe about their own existential… — Gunnar Kvaran Copy Share Image
I thought I wanted to be a performing and recording artist, and played many recitals and performances beginning in the 1970s. In… — Barbara Harbach Copy Share Image
The whole story of the universe is implicit in any part of it. The meditative eye can look through any single object… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I think I've been able to witness Canadian hip-hop get a lot more respect from our own people. I think some of… — JD Era Copy Share Image
When I stop working, I go out and start working again. Most people paint a picture, or whatever they do, and go… — David Bailey Copy Share Image
You connect yourself to the viewer by sharing something that is inside of you that connects with something inside of him. All… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
whatever a work of art may be, the artist certainly cannot dare to be simple. He must have a nature as complicated… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Painting is a kind of call and response. During the act of painting one is listening, paying attention to a self, a… — Squeak Carnwath Copy Share Image
Painting is always strongest when in spite of composition, color, etc., it appears as a fact, or an inevitability, as opposed to… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There's a cultural conviction that any 'artist' must have personal suffering to back up their work, otherwise there's something undeserved and therefore… — Jenny Diski Copy Share Image
A Painter draws a painting Door of Heart witout handle.!! Man: Why there is no handle? Painter: Its bcoz Door of Heart… — ZhatsPrincess Copy Share Image
It's impossible to say that live art enjoys any single status in the information age--there are versions of live art that are… — Philip Auslander Copy Share Image
![“The diseased pride [of artistic individualists] was not even conscious of a public interest, and would have found all political terms utterly tasteless and insignificant. It was no longer a question of one man one vote, but of one man one universe.” quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/df5/gilbert-k-chesterton-223_art_the-diseased-pride-of-artistic-individua_98127.png)
