Always make your work be personal. And, you never have to lie... There is something we know that's connected with beauty and… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
Art shows and the institutions end up being the couriers for culture for the next generation and are an important component as… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
That's the thing about being an artist, you don't have to take anyone else's perspective into account. You can act as self-indulgent… — Jessica Origliasso Copy Share Image
Art...is the intentional act of using your humanity to create a change in another person...Passion is caring enough about your art that… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
My father was an artist. When life was harder and he couldn't get jobs, he painted houses, but he was artistic. When… — Ralph Lauren Copy Share Image
I knew my focus was going to be somewhere in the arts. I've always painted. I've always sung. I didn't know when… — Kylie Bunbury Copy Share Image
Art should never be limited - the beauty of art is that it gives us the freedom to go places where we… — Jada Pinkett Smith Copy Share Image
I think artists should be able to do different things whenever they want and I like the way I am. I'm like… — Meek Mill Copy Share Image
One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I always think about what's the difference between being tenacious and having an inability to learn from failures. The difference between the… — Neil Burger Copy Share Image
“My hands are out of practice, my eyes disused. Most of what I do is drawing, because the preparation of the surface,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I usually only draw myself in down periods... I suppose that's why I often draw myself looking grim. I just think, 'Let's… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
If you start a painting and you don't like where it's going, don't give up on it. Just keep going and follow… — Andrew McDermott Copy Share Image
It's one of those magical acts that is so poly-sensorial and culturally enriching that as a designer one is naturally drawn to… — Ross Lovegrove Copy Share Image
Made up of corallitic accretions and painful increments, lit on rare occasions by bolts of revelation, and then stuffed behind the wainscotting… — Harold Town Copy Share Image
I have no regrets, though I was the first artist to stylize the national anthem, and I got a lot of protests… — Jose Feliciano Copy Share Image
Every day a new picture is painted and framed, held up for half an hour, in such lights as the Great Artist… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Some years ago I was working on some forms which were vase forms with a fairly narrow base, and it was after… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
I am fine, though it is hard to think of what kind of work to make at this point, other than decorative,… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
It’s one of my loose theories that Catholicism and art have gone well together because both believe in the physical manifestation of… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
I think everybody wants to be the best at what they do and for me I was never really there, plus it… — Doc Brown Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's good to get mad, sometimes it clarifies where we stand. I think that art has the ability to challenge and… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
People weren't even aware that I wrote my own songs. The media just promoted me as a female body. It's like I've… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
At the core of everything I do, is not my ambition but my desire to make music. Somewhere along the line I… — El-P Copy Share Image
“I know that I stopped thinking about extreme grief as the sole vehicle for great art when the grief started to take… — Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib Copy Share Image
One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
I have studied the art of the masters and the art of the moderns, avoiding any preconceived system and without prejudice. I… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
As an artist, you know as a person in the public eye, period, you kind of have a responsibility to the younger… — Ne-Yo Copy Share Image
[Frank Sinatra] was an incredible artist, the best at what he did, but it never occurred to me to model my career… — Harry Connick, Jr Copy Share Image
I know that it feels dangerous and scary and working without a net, so to speak. And working without a net, for… — June Diane Raphael Copy Share Image
Don't everlastingly read messages into paintings - there's the Daisy - you don't rave over or read messages into it - you… — John Marin Copy Share Image
I'm not a corporate machine. I'm not Lady Gaga, I'm not Madonna, I don't have a million dollars behind me and big… — Bebe Buell Copy Share Image
“My hands are flowing like sunlight. The shapes and colors are astounding. I don't understand these images that are empowering me. My… — Daniel J. Rice Copy Share Image
With Eric Rohmer - as with Mozart, Austen, James, and Proust - we need to remember that art is seldom about life,… — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
“Know therefore! In order to achieve total painting , which requires the active cooperation of all the senses... you must paint, as… — Carlo Carra Copy Share Image
“I believe that most of us, students and artists alike, ought to concern ourselves less with what we think is the right… — Bert Dodson Copy Share Image
There are clear differences between child and adult artistic activity. While the child may be aware that he is doing things differently… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
If you want to know what true art is: Go outside on a clear night, wait until it gets very, very dark,… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
You're hot for two seconds, and you're struggling to get work again. If it were easy, I don't think that's a good… — Tatiana Maslany Copy Share Image
“Yet entertainment--as I define it, pleasure and all--remains the only sure means we have of bridging, or at least of feeling as… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
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![“[Frank Sinatra] was an incredible artist, the best at what he did, but it never occurred to me to model my career after what he did. There was no one I modeled my career after because there was no one else who did what I did.” quote by Harry Connick, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/968/harry-connick-jr-3461_art_frank-sinatra-was-an-incredible-artist-t_679887.jpg)
