Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Theres a blank canvas in front of you. You are the artist of your life, and you are free to paint any… — Nishu Copy Share Image
To an artist, a picture is both a sum of ideas and a blurry memory of 'pushing paint,' breathing fumes, dripping oils… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
If I'm smart as an artist, I wouldn't be a snob and turn it down, because I'd look at it and go,… — James Wan Copy Share Image
As Christians, we must see that just because an artist-even a great artist-portrays a worldview in writing or on canvas, it does… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The artist has some internal experience that produces a poem, a painting, a piece of music. Spectators submit themselves to the work,… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
When you have an idea for a work and when you've finished your model for it, for the artist it's almost complete,… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
It reminded us that propaganda in some form or other lurks in every book, that every work of art has a meaning… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
What really made me a performance artist was that I was able to step back and assess. I've always had [that ability],… — Kalup Linzy Copy Share Image
Artists are always searching for beauty - and when they find it and fashion it in their own unique way - it… — John Kurtz Copy Share Image
I've always enjoyed feeling a connection to the avant-garde, such as Dada and surrealism and pop art. The only thing the artist… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
The history of art cannot be properly understood without some reference to the history of science. In both we are studying the… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Just as composers go to concerts and artists visit galleries, writers read. You will learn, in the most enjoyable way, more about… — Judith Barrington Copy Share Image
Much of our lives involves the word “no.” In school we are mostly told, “Don't do it this way. Do it that… — Marvin Bell Copy Share Image
I'd love to do a collaboration with an Ellie Goulding or a female English artist - Laura Marling or something. Somebody cool… — Sam Palladio Copy Share Image
Having more curators to go around among the artists is more effective and more efficient. The artists are better looked after so… — Laura Belem Copy Share Image
Abstract art is a creative interplay between the conscious and the unconscious, with the conscious mind making all the final decisions and… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
“Yet, to view the Sistine primarily as a self-portrait doesn’t ring totally true. In spite of his arrogance regarding his artistic skill,… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
Chris Ofili's suave, stippled, visually tricked-out paintings of the nineties, with their allover fields of shimmering dots and clumps of dung, are… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Art is inherently subversive. It’s destabilizing. It undermines what you already know and what you already think. It is the opposite of… — Deborah Eisenberg Copy Share Image
If I were a painter, I would paint beautiful bodies - I would paint nipples, and I would paint Bibles. Am I… — will.i.am Copy Share Image
As much as we think we are as artists, we think, oh, you know, we're going to do this, we're going to… — Pharrell Williams Copy Share Image
Michael's Powell art director was a painter and they had a wonderful friendship and artistic understanding. Michael himself, in the way he… — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
My mother sent me to art classes at the age of 11. I began to have kids around me say, 'Will you… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I've always said that I count myself as a classical crossover artist. To be so, you have to have the core classical… — Katherine Jenkins Copy Share Image
Art has knowledge and skills, and to come to know them is to be implicitly against a culture that is against knowledge… — Matthew Collings Copy Share Image
“It should also be remembered that art created to change minds often actually does more to bolster the spirit of those already… — Steve Turner Copy Share Image
The thing about being on the majors, from the beginning, going into this, I was like, "I'm not going to be treated… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
“Life isn't just like roller-coasters but it's also like painting. Painting needs lots of focus and so does our life. If you… — Jana KhairAllah Copy Share Image
An artist has to be humble, an editor must be officious, and a publisher must be somewhere out in the galaxy enjoying… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
It used to be that artists thought of nature as their environment. Now media is our environment. It has been for the… — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
There is no interruption between my older paintings and my cutouts. Just that with an increasing sense of the absolute, and more… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Talent is so loaded a word, so full to the brim with meanings, that an artist might be wise to forget about… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
I'm interested in telling a story about a gay man and what he's going through as an artist and as a lonely,… — Jordan Gavaris Copy Share Image
Seizing new ground, making connections between people or ideas, working without a map-these are works of art, and if you do them,… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
THIS ACTION THAT I FORESEE has nothing to do with melodrama It is that life as lived by me now is a… — Francesca Woodman Copy Share Image
In the potential of absurdity, hiding in the disparate combination of the various different subjects which in themselves are nothing but daily… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
“Old paint on a canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
I just sit at the drawing board most of the time. I am used to talking to people. I love going to… — David Lloyd Copy Share Image
I don't think it's possible to teach a person to be an artist. But yet, I'm here, and I suppose this is… — Phoebe Gloeckner Copy Share Image
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