Finding your place as an artist is the hardest thing. You come out of college with what feels like a Mickey Mouse… — Sam Taylor-Johnson Copy Share Image
I can go write an absolutely saccharine pop record with a really catchy lyric for another artist that could become a hit… — Ryan Tedder Copy Share Image
One of the greatest things about being an artist is, as you get older, if you keep working hard in relationship to… — Catherine Opie Copy Share Image
If you truly have expertise - and expertise can be say a chess master who has really mastered something or an artist… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
You can neither lie to a neighbourhood park, nor reason with it. 'Artist's conceptions' and persuasive renderings can put pictures of life… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
“If an artist can occupy the void of artistry while simultaneously parodying its iconography, they can have their metaphorical cake and cannibalise… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
When I was a young artist, I liked and was interested in belonging to the mainstream comics group. I didn't introduce myself… — David Mazzucchelli Copy Share Image
I'm going to be a better actor, or I'm going to try to be a better actor. I'm going to try to… — Lola Kirke Copy Share Image
I’m always in awe of people who are artists in their fields – people who understand that simply by taking ideas and… — Kevin Systrom Copy Share Image
For a while, I was nervous about portraying women because of the objectification that automatically comes with it, whether the artist intends… — Toyin Odutola Copy Share Image
The most horrible question students ask: 'How do you paint copper?' 'How do you paint flesh or glass?' You paint everything the… — Sergei Bongart Copy Share Image
Sometimes, as a young artist, I was looking for validation to know I was good enough, and that's what the initial audition… — Erin Willett Copy Share Image
Drawing is the simplest way of establishing a picture vocabulary because it is an instant, personal declaration of what is important and… — Betty Goodwin Copy Share Image
Irish artists have a tradition of being very heavily engaged in what is happening in their own society. So it was important… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is related only to objects and not… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
When they asked Michelangelo how he made his statue of David he is reported to have said, "It is easy. You just… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
Art objects are inanimate sad bits of matter hanging in the dark when no one is looking. The artist only does half… — Vik Muniz Copy Share Image
There is such a place as fairyland - but only children can find the way to it...until they have grown so old… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
Sweeping gestures from the shoulder allow you to make generous marks, well suited to large scale work. You don't get anything simpler… — Stan Smith Copy Share Image
“During that war we had a word for extreme man-made disorder which was fubar, an acronym for 'fucked up beyond all recognition.'… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I love being in space. I love being challenged by great roles that a company like Marvel creates amazing movies that no… — Zoe Saldana Copy Share Image
As a movement Cubism had consistently stopped short of complete abstraction. Heretics such as Delaunay had painted pure abstractions but in so… — Alfred H. Barr, Jr Copy Share Image
I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the… — Brad Holland Copy Share Image
I think we give too much importance to artists talking about the art and the film and the books and the plays… — Jean-Marc Vallee Copy Share Image
When I go to China I see many artists whose work reflects on aspects of contemporary popular culture but obviously the history… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
One of the smartest things Kickstarter has done, in my opinion, is give people a great shopping experience related to the arts,… — Jessica Jackley Copy Share Image
I've worked with a hundred of the biggest artists in the world, from Madonna to Mariah Carey, and he [Michael Jackson] is… — Brett Ratner Copy Share Image
“...hanging out does not make one an artist. A secondhand wardrobe does not make one an artist. Neither do a hair-trigger temper,… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in perfection. The universe is perfect, and there are some works of art that we see as perfect, but… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
Culturally, it's really funny to me that people respect the weird guy as an artist. There can be a curmudgeon in the… — Mark Foster Copy Share Image
All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained both classical and romantic elements - order… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
That lifestyle wears you down fast, so I started to take better care of myself. I exercise, sleep eight hours a night,… — Beth Riesgraf Copy Share Image
When I'm not working on a children's book, I'm painting abstract paintings. That's probably the most joyous thing for me as an… — Mary GrandPre Copy Share Image
I used to have to downplay my sexuality because I wanted to be taken so seriously as a thespian and as an… — Halle Berry Copy Share Image
At one time there were voiceover artists, now there are celebrity voiceover artists. It's unfortunate because these people need the money less… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
Art today is a new kind of instrument, an instrument for modifying consciousness and organizing new modes of sensibility . . .… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
In the Raphael Room, the secret turned out to be that only some of the paintings were made by the great master;… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Where Picasso paints cause, Repin paints effect. Repin predigests art for the spectator and provides a short cut to the pleasure of… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
“I want to remind us all that art is dangerous. I want to remind you of the history of artists who have… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
![“I've worked with a hundred of the biggest artists in the world, from Madonna to Mariah Carey, and he [Michael Jackson] is just beyond. He's at a whole other level, spiritually. He's got the God spot. Everyone has it, everyone has that God spot, but it's just the way he's in tune with it. He has…” quote by Brett Ratner](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/3eb/brett-ratner-10058_art_i-ve-worked-with-a-hundred-of-the-bigges_161090.jpg)
