“How did Adam do it? He seemed to be able to look past Miles's weirdness and insecurities and awkwardness to see Miles,… — Rowan Speedwell Copy Share Image
I quit painting very early. I just jumped ship. In a way, the window is the tragic possibility - you can jump… — Tehching Hsieh Copy Share Image
I never considered myself an artist. I aspire to be an artist, but I never thought I had the depth or substance… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“Leonardo had almost no schooling and could barely read Latin or do long division. His genius was of the type we can… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Let me say for the record, I am not a gangster and never have been. I'm not the thief who grabs your… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
I try to make things as versatile as possible. Usually, you have to listen to one artist for a certain vibe and… — Kyle Copy Share Image
I'm an experimental artist in a field that doesn't celebrate experimentation. It celebrates self-destruction, which I guess you could say is a… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
You know, when I put out records that may not work or connect with the audience, it's because I'm pushing myself as… — T.I Copy Share Image
The artist had captured a moment that went on suggesting other moments in the mind of the beholder. This, Timmon told me,… — Jim Grimsley Copy Share Image
I think swag is very important to rappers. It's the overall appearance and style of an artist - these blue shorts and… — Soulja Boy Copy Share Image
I believe that economics is based on scarcity of markets. And it's possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of… — Nipsey Hussle Copy Share Image
One of our chief needs as creative beings is support. Unfortunately, this can be hard to come by. Ideally, we would be… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I'm gonna make music, and I'm gonna capture every aspect of being a human being. That's really all I'm trying to do.… — Mac Miller Copy Share Image
To me, paintings are about beauty. They are very feminine, and beauty is something very feminine. For a long time, people would… — Nir Hod Copy Share Image
My father wanted me to be a dentist like him, or any doctor, really. There was this attitude of, 'The civil rights… — Amy Sherald Copy Share Image
How difficult it is to exist, that we are athlete and artist. We have injuries. People don't see the hard side of… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
When I was a child of four I wasn't really drawing like a child, I wasn't sketching as a child. I would… — Arman Copy Share Image
Strokes carry a message whether you will it or not. The stroke is just like the artist at the time he makes… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
“Are [the arts and the sciences] really as distinct as we seem to assume? [...] Most universities will have distinct faculties of… — Stephen Mumford Copy Share Image
The difference between the arts arises because of the difference in the nature of the mediums of expression and the emphasis induced… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
In the '60s, people were still very protective of each field that they belonged to. Avant-garde artists didn't know about rock or… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
“Repeated elements encourage comparison of like objects and force our eye to follow from one element to the next, even when those… — Joshua Field Copy Share Image
I often wonder if there are certain areas of real life that are roped off, with a sign saying, "Art, don't come… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I was very young when I prepared those prints. I suspect the reason I couldn't celebrate the floating world was that I… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“Whenever the truth is uncovered, the artist will always cling with rapt gaze to what still remains covering even after such uncovering;… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There's no greatest moment in the arts. It's a life; it's a continuity thing. You can't have a great moment because it's… — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first… — Mel Torme Copy Share Image
What has pleased and continues to please, is likely to please again; hence are derived the rules of art, and on this… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
“The more people have time to experience the joys of creativity, the less they will be consumers, especially of mass-produced culture. I… — Theodore Roszak Copy Share Image
“And that is why I would propose that, in our teaching of the humanities, we should emphasize the enduring creations of the… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“If a painter, then, paints a picture of an ideally beautiful man, complete to the last detail, is he any the worse… — Plato Copy Share Image
After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“An artistic image is one that ensures its own development, its historical viability. An image is a grain, a self-evolving retroactive organism.… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is really saying… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I think his paintings are cathartic for him,” she said. “After you experience trauma that deep, you need to do something to… — Liz Murray Copy Share Image
I only really started to go to plays and to be interested in drama 20 years ago when as an artist I… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
I want to make music and songs about things that real musicians and artist aren't able to make songs about - you… — Jake Paul Copy Share Image
Many say an art dealer running a museum is a 'conflict of interest.' But maybe the art world has lived an artificial… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“Artists often collect. Sometimes compulsively. They hang on to things. They don’t want to let go. Like paintings. I don’t want to… — Celia Rees Copy Share Image
Art is a necessity - an essential part of our enlightenment process. We cannot, as a civilized society, regard ourselves as being… — Ken Danby Copy Share Image