I've often thought - even though it's hard to give him even more credit than he has had - that Andy Warhol… — Lee Radziwill Copy Share Image
This game is lame, the music comes second So you can save that stupidness for all them artists you checkin. Popularity don't… — Craig G Copy Share Image
“This way of 'choosing to be an an artist' seems lost for ever to today's impatient and cynical youth, who dream of… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Cartola is an artist from Brazil who didn't record until much later in his life, but had a big influence on a… — Jesse Harris Copy Share Image
I try to just put a blank stage in front of them, and say, "This is your space; you tell me where… — Doug Aitken Copy Share Image
The word mystical is an even worse word than spirituality - that artists take drugs, and then they add some crazy extra… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
“Finally, when someone asked [Pollack] how he knew when a painting was finished, he replied, “How do you know when you’ve finished… — Ross Wetzsteon Copy Share Image
People are tempted to politicize the fact that I paint black figures, and the complexity of this is an essential part of… — Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Copy Share Image
That's the message I want to give to every up-and-coming artist: Do everything that is going to help you later. If you… — Mary J. Blige Copy Share Image
Exposing yourself to many kinds of art can only lead to amazing things. It helps you learn about your own art, your… — Phillipa Soo Copy Share Image
It's already years ago now, but there's that South Korean music artist Psy, who had that hit song and it was a… — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
I think didactic art is boring. I mean, I love it in terms of, like, some of the historical precedents that I've… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
The painting cannot be laid aside even for a day; for it takes constant work to keep 'flowing,' but above that it… — Morris Graves Copy Share Image
“You have on your history," said the artist, "and we're not used to that, believe me. Not to history. Not to old… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
What art is not processed? "Conceptual art." Somebody making a painting has to conceive of the size. I don't understand where these… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
Man is used to the fact that there are languages which he does not at first understand and which must be learned,… — Edward T. Hall Copy Share Image
You want to try to be yourself with whatever you're doing and put your own flair on it. I think that's a… — Jerami Grant Copy Share Image
If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I don't know if it will be my big comeback, but I think it is a statement - that I am a… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
When you're a Chicago artist, to play Lollapalooza, that's not a normal thing. It's artists on a path to a certain place… — Chance The Rapper Copy Share Image
The reason I put make-up on or wear the costume is to try and find my own style. It's like my guitar… — Miyavi Copy Share Image
Although I started off as a child artist, I left acting in between, as I felt that I was missing the fun… — Fatima Sana Shaikh Copy Share Image
I did get a reputation for being choosy and not very easy to be approached, and none of that is true. It… — Abhay Deol Copy Share Image
Take the birds which you'll have noticed in so many of my recent paintings. I never thought them up, they just materialized… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
Once I have the finished sculpture, I’ll put it out on the street or in nature or somewhere where it interacts with… — Mark Jenkins Copy Share Image
I'm an ambitious self-publicist out of necessity. I've never been one to miss an opportunity because I've never had any illusions about… — Stuart Pearson Wright Copy Share Image
Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The painting was framed in a misty view of sky, sea, and valley. Newt's painting was small, black, and warty. It consisted… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid to put anything on paper because the best art has some element of danger to it and if you… — Max Bemis Copy Share Image
“Those who are esteemed umpires of taste, are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, and have… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I feel like, to me, art is a ladder to God, in my own opinion, you know. And so, for me, the… — Jada Pinkett Smith Copy Share Image
The only other things I got from the abstract expressionists is the absolute belief that this canvas is the complete total area… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
Black painters have done all kinds of work. It's the treatment of forms they engage in-that's what determines the value of the… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
All the lies and evasions by which man has nourished himself civilization, in a word is the fruits of the creative artist.… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The glory of the disposition that stops to consider stimuli rather than rushing to engage with them is its long association with… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“You know that bad people can make great art, don’t you?’Said Annie. ‘Yes, of course. Some of the people whose art I… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I think there were some programs but in those days art programs were kind of basic. You would do drawing and simple… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers,… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
If you look at the greatest models, it was because they were muses to photographers. They collaborated with the artist and they… — Michael Flutie Copy Share Image