I love the trick of painting. You can have the movement within the still thing, but it is completely fixed. And that… — Cecily Brown Copy Share Image
Whatever the practical origins of aesthetic discernment may have been, it has been used to create great works of art. When the… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
After illuminating the work of Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Louise Bourgeois, Balthus, and other modern artists, Mieke Bal again demonstrates her extraordinary flair for… — Jonathan Culler Copy Share Image
When I first came to New York, in the '70s, artists were certainly divided about the Andy Warhol persona, and about the… — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
“I do not say that artists cannot be seers, inspired: that the awen cannot come upon them, and the god speak through… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Today not even a universal fire could make the torrential poetic production of our time disappear. But it is exactly a question… — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
It wasn't a problem for me drawing humans although I had originally come to the studio with the idea that what I… — Marc Davis Copy Share Image
In fairness, I don't think that everyone understands what I say, but I think they understand part of it and part of… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
Being an artist is two things. You accumulate experience and time, and if you have something that's interesting, you have to be… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
It is well known that a loose and easy dress contributes much to give to both sexes those fine proportions of body… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Maybe now if you're not an exhibitionist you're private. Or maybe it's just that for a lot of people - sometimes in… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
Perhaps the importance that we must attach to the achievement of an artist or a group of artists may properly be measured… — Walter Sickert Copy Share Image
I’m not doing anything wrong, I’m not obstructing anyone’s access. When I have a crowd I make sure that the crowd makes… — Kalan Sherrard Copy Share Image
Most of the paint I use is a liquid, flowing kind of paint. The brushes I use are more a sticks rather… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
There are always forces at work in a society, certainly in America, which are really forces of censorship -either religious bodies or… — John Boorman Copy Share Image
When an artist wants to paint a painting, they have all those things in their head that they want to portray on… — Justin Verlander Copy Share Image
The rush to books and universities is like the rush to the public house. People want to drown their realization of the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Is it not the artist who - like our dreams - dissolves the pretenses that hide us from ourselves, disclosing both our… — Dorothy Norman Copy Share Image
I cannot remember a time when I was not interested in both gardening and painting. I must have been born with a… — Emma Tennant Copy Share Image
This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the… — Robert Delaunay Copy Share Image
It's impossible to represent a saint [in Art]. It becomes boring. Perhaps because he is, like the Saturday Evening Post people, inthe… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Starting young has definitely helped my success. All the experience I gained by touring with other players as a backing artist helped… — Vonda Shepard Copy Share Image
I'm always looking for context in which people tell stories. In "Fight Club" it's these support groups for dying people, and then… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point,… — John Berryman Copy Share Image
I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston,… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimise themselves in favour of the ideal. But I just can't. You see, my paintings… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
“Life is a collection of memories and feelings. Mawkish sentimentally urges us to engage in artistic overtures, we yearn to share with… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The golden rule would be to write a great, authentic song that is well produced and it will find its home. The… — Wendy Starland Copy Share Image
“My own general thesis was somewhat to this effect: that Artists have worried the world by being wantonly, needlessly, and gratuitously progressive.… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Christ is, then, the perfect art work in the sense of that reality in whom is realised those goals that all artistic… — Aidan Nichols O.P Copy Share Image
Despite all that I know rationally, and everything that I can put into words, I can say that I have difficulty giving… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
For spiritual companions I have had the many artists who have relied on nature to help shape their imagination. And their most… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
I have always felt the word 'advertising' is either a diminutive or derogatory term that kind of goes with stuff people don't… — Lee Clow Copy Share Image
I respect artists that know how to be artists, that know how to create their own lane and make people respect them… — Big Daddy Kane Copy Share Image
We usually evaluate creative process in terms of how much feeling or thinking was behind the work or how well the work… — Kazuaki Tanahashi Copy Share Image
The artists who the world has always recognized as the greatest are those with the widest sympathy. The greatness of the great… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
You can't turn fame off regardless if you're a platinum-selling artist or you're in jail every week. If you're famous, you're famous.… — Dave East Copy Share Image
“... when people are getting poorer, and children are growing more hungry and sick all around you, it is simply not enough… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Every artist's strictly illimitable country is himself. An artist who plays that country false has committed suicide;and even a good lawyer cannot… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
![“Most of the paint I use is a liquid, flowing kind of paint. The brushes I use are more a sticks rather than brushes – the brush doesn’t touch the surface on the canvas, it’s just above [so] I am able to be more free and to have greater freedom and move about the canvas, with greater ease.” quote by Jackson Pollock](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/9f6/jackson-pollock-8264_able_most-of-the-paint-i-use-is-a-liquid-flow_2018458.jpg)
![“It's impossible to represent a saint [in Art]. It becomes boring. Perhaps because he is, like the Saturday Evening Post people, inthe position of having almost infinitely free will.” quote by W. H. Auden](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/2ed/w-h-auden-856_art_it-s-impossible-to-represent-a-saint-in_1665725.png)
