All artists are vain, they long to be recognized and to leave something to posterity. They want to be loved, and at… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“You know, a carving, especially if it’s polychrome, is not meant to move. These faces, these half-bodies, when you animate them, they’re… — Jacques Yonnet Copy Share Image
“Once you have hundreds of millions of dollars, it’s hard to know where to put it all. Art is transportable, unregulated, glamorous,… — Nick Paumgarten Copy Share Image
Some artists are bound to an image: Bob Marley has dreadlocks, Matisyahu has a beard. But that's a reminder that the whole… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
I think, ultimately, the problem with something like this is that you actually have so many more opportunities to say something than… — Aaron McGruder Copy Share Image
As well as having a really strong message, sometimes an artist needs to couple their sentiment with something that's soulful and groovy… — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
When work resonates with a person, whether it is literature or film or music, then they want to know more about the… — Jeff Feuerzeig Copy Share Image
The ancients of the ideal description, instead of trying to turn their impracticable chimeras, as does the modern dreamer, into social and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Humor is everything. Everything. Usually the negatives turned out to be the most positive for me. In the music industry, any other… — Pitbull Copy Share Image
I think that's part of the battle of defining yourself as an artist. You're constantly fighting the pressure from outside to be… — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
A fierce and monkish art; a castigation of the flesh. You must cut out your imagination and not fly an airplane but… — Wolfgang Langewiesche Copy Share Image
The urgency for me is to hurry up and become visible enough to either influence or shame other artists or corporations into… — Aloe Blacc Copy Share Image
I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
“I’m making tiny pictures, on a canvas that is bigger than anyone can ever imagine. My tiny pictures seem to get lost… — Nanne Nyander Copy Share Image
And it's always the same kind of artist, I think, who has more enjoyment being slightly on the outside of things, who… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I think Frank Ocean is a talented artist; I think he's created material that made me know his name, that impressed me,… — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
Warhol was definitely an inspiration when I was younger. I wouldn't quantify his sort of influence. I've been influenced by nature and… — Dustin Yellin Copy Share Image
As many have said before me, artists are creative people who can't be dragged into the politics of nations. I have always… — Mahira Khan Copy Share Image
If you are a writer or any kind of artist, if you change something as fundamental as where you live - the… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Comedy is the one absolutely self-aware art form. Actually, hip-hop's another one, I suppose. Because in your songs you're talking about how… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
All humans are storytellers with their own unique point of view. When we understand this, we no longer feel the need to… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
My talent is definitely a gift. I don't understand where it comes from. I don't play an instrument, and I never went… — Sean Combs Copy Share Image
About 1883 something like a break occurred in my work. I had reached the end of 'impressionism,' and I had come to… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
I'm in show business. I believe in illusion and delusions and in holding aloft the bubble of a dream of some sort… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Michelangelo was aiming with his frescoes, we modestly suggest that if he had dared to give the giant artwork a title he… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
My use of evenly repeated dots and diagonal lines and uninflected color areas suggest that my work is right where it is,… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
“There are large and stately studios, panelled and high, in strong stone houses filled with gleaming brass and polished oak. There are… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
My father didn't think being an artist was a respectable or worthy goal for a man. He hoped I would see my… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
I have been very fortunate to be a part of tours with other artists that have exposed me to new places that… — Sara Bareilles Copy Share Image
If what you want to paint is the emotive mood in all its strength... then you must not sit and stare at… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
If only we could persuade galleries to observe a fallow period in which, for two months every other year, new and old… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I meet young artists and it becomes clear that with some the main motivation is getting a show in Chelsea. It strikes… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
I identify as being an independent artist. I think people often forget that Indie is actually short for independent. For me, the… — Mirah Copy Share Image
I don't really know where I got my artists idea. The scraps of what I remember do not explain to me where… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
But writers INVITE ghosts, maybe; along with actors and artists, they are the only totally accepted mediums of our society. They make… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I've gone to big stadium rock concerts at some artist's invitation, and there's this invariable, fascinating and rather sad situation of concentric… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
It art can only succeed through the cooperating imagination and intelligence of its consumers, who fill out, for themselves, the artist's world… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
