“I know that life is busy and hard and that there's crushing pressure to just settle down and get a real job… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I am drawing outside - when it is cold out it gets difficult (my hand gets slower when it is… — Jason Polan Copy Share Image
There are a lot of producers who basically have their sound, and if the artist works with them, you almost know what… — Jon Brion Copy Share Image
I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
In Germany, you have a huge official memorial to the murdered Jews and then you have this artist who's been putting these… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
Even though hip-hop started as a battle format, different artists appeared on each other's records or hung out in the same clubs,… — Mike D Copy Share Image
The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics… — Douglas Sirk Copy Share Image
Art matters not merely because it is the most magnificent ornament and the most nearly unfailing occupation of our lives, but because… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“that) but because God thought the whole thing up first. Fran illustrates this with the Sistine Chapel in Rome, where Michelangelo portrays… — William Edgar Copy Share Image
I think that has been a benefit to me because I think most people understand quilts and not a lot of people… — Faith Ringgold Copy Share Image
The arts not only imbue our sense of sight, balance, movement, touch and hearing, they also lift our logical minds - the… — Eugene Schwartz Copy Share Image
Everyone goes to the same exhibitions and the same parties, stays in the same handful of hotels, eats at the same no-star… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I think of art as coming from daily life, daily experience. I think it's very important not to have it become work… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
“It’s so easy to lose faith and become lost in all of the politics of the world. That’s why we need the… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
All art is concerned with coming into being; for it is concerned neither with things that are, or come into being by… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When I first came into the business, I had to, for the sake of being able to sell myself as an artist,… — Kelly Price Copy Share Image
There are artists that are using computers in all genres - Kendrick Lamar's music is electronic-made, and Taylor Swift is the same… — Skrillex Copy Share Image
Just because you're a star on television doesn't mean that you can be a music phenomenon or an artist. You have to… — Kara DioGuardi Copy Share Image
The artist is a man who finds that the form or shape of things externally corresponds, in some strange way, to the… — Graham Collier Copy Share Image
Well, this week's peeve might be... when art writers talk about an artist's 'efforts,' meaning their work. It always sounds patronizing to… — James Nares Copy Share Image
People have always said that I could have been a highly successful pop artist, if only that were my intention. It never… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
When you find fame, or you get signed to a record label, it's not what you imagined - because you imagined they… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
We're all busy. It's a very fast-paced world. And art - and by that, I mean culture in a wider sense -… — Zoe Leonard Copy Share Image
People are still making paintings. People are still enjoying paintings, looking at paintings. Paintings still have something to tell us. There's a… — David Salle Copy Share Image
One day a student asked Taiga, What is the most difficult part of painting? Taiga answered, The part of the paper where… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
The art world would have you believe that anything can be art. But, of course, there's actually many things that aren't art.… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
Robert Gober, for example. He doesn't seem like somebody who is just going to show in a gallery that asks him to… — Raf Simons Copy Share Image
We are not moving towards some kind of goal. We are at the goal, and it is changing with us. If art… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
I have a lot of art in the house, but it's mine, friends'. Not necessarily - like, I didn't spend thousands of… — Willie Cauley-Stein Copy Share Image
Most artists I know had one person in their life who told them they were the second coming of the baby Jesus,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I think, for me, not to get too dark, my self-worth is very much wrapped up in my ability to be a… — Matty Healy Copy Share Image
I don't go to galleries every day because it's so rare that I like what I see. There's a lot of bad… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I'm truly blessed to be doing what I've always wanted - CREATE. I have found a freedom that is hard to put… — Steve Kaufman Copy Share Image
Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Robert Vavra is one of these artists, part magician, part alchemist, who is able to create a series of photographs in unforgettable… — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
This perversion of the truth, familiar to the artist though it was, always unnerved him afresh and proved too much for him.… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
