I think that fame only goes to your head if you are not a real artist. If you are a real artist… — Lady Starlight Copy Share Image
Art was a last, desperate attempt for me to be able to exist in the world after trying very hard not to… — Kirsha Kaechele Copy Share Image
My mother was a Chinese trapeze artist in pre-war Paris Smuggling bombs for the underground. And she met my father at a… — Colin Meloy Copy Share Image
“One of the most connective things we can do for ourselves, is to become world travelers of our own internal landscapes. What… — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
“If originality is a “sense of novelty and freshness” then, in the act of constructing ourselves, originality is not the goal. We… — Gabby Bess Copy Share Image
I got to meet a lot of cool people [on the Voice], and my favorite part about the experience was getting to… — Curtis Grimes Copy Share Image
We should all develop the mind to rejoice in, praise and share in the gift of those who have artistic talents and… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Family has always been very important to my life. Even though I make my living as an artist, my creativity is merely… — Neil Sedaka Copy Share Image
There were decades I didn't play sober. I thought, Who would want to? But at some point, I decided that if it… — Kris Kristofferson Copy Share Image
Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any. And I dont really want it to carry one. Im… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
The prosthetics were interesting because the artist was so good that they could just put a Hitchcock mask on me, but you… — Toby Jones Copy Share Image
A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
I've always thought that art is a lie, an interesting lie. And I'll sort of listen to the "lie" and try to… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I wouldn't be happy to be a specialist. There are some very interesting artists in history who refused to be nailed down… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
I grew up in the grunge era. I've always resisted the idea of being part of a machine, wanting just to be… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
I consider myself an artist, but instead of paint or clay, my medium is drag. I put so much of myself into… — Manila Luzon Copy Share Image
I began in 1976, with small abstract paintings that allowed me to do what I had never let myself do: put something… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
If an artist tells you "this is an oak tree," then it better be an oak tree. It's how you proclaim things;… — Igor Levit Copy Share Image
We are accustomed to the artist scoundrel or specialist in vice, and unaccustomed to the creator in whom passion and reason and… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
On the way I stood a moment looking out across the marshes with tall cattails, a patch of water, more marsh, then… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Art does not imitate life. Art is much more powerful than that. Art brings life back. And it does it by exposing… — Jose Bernardo Copy Share Image
My overall approach toward art is to remain as open as possible in front of the world, to always be curious, not… — Daniel Buren Copy Share Image
When I started school, I would draw pictures at the end of my sentences: a house, a flower, a tree, a bird.… — Amy Sherald Copy Share Image
But when I am alone, I do not have the effrontery to consider myself an artist at all, not in the grand… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Painting is my profession, because it has always been the thing that interested me most. I'm of a certain age, I come… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
You don't become an 'artist' unless you've got something missing somewhere. Blaise Pascal called it a God-shaped hole. Everyone's got one but… — Bono Copy Share Image
“Do you know how hard it is to paint kindness?” She leaned her hip against a desk in the corner of the… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
I want to keep acting and I want to keep working with high quality artists. I might be a bit spoiled because… — Mickey Sumner Copy Share Image
I think people got this idea that I wanted to be a star. Managers of the past don't have any kind of… — Scooter Braun Copy Share Image
In my own version of the idea of 'what art wants,' the end and fulfillment of the history of art is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An artistic endeavour comes into the world naked, unnamed, and vulnerable. Every creative effort requires the artist to wrest something from nothingness,… — Peter London Copy Share Image
It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino's work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, I… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to create drama in my pictures, which is why I paint people. It's people who have brought drama to… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
My priciple is, the artist shall put forth, humbly & lovingly, without bitterness, the very best & highest that is within him,utterly… — Sidney Lanier Copy Share Image
Everybody needs a release. Sometimes people mosh at my shows. That inspired me to make records to get the people more crunk.… — Yelawolf Copy Share Image
There is no society ever discovered in the remotest corner of the world that has not had something that we would consider… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In art, and in the higher ranges of science, there is a feeling of harmony which underlies all endeavor. There is no… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Our love of art is often quite temporary, dependent upon our moods, and our love of art is subservient to our demand… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image