What excites me and what I find most compelling is clearly not what excites other artists. It comes from my own idiosyncratic… — Philip Taaffe Copy Share Image
I keep things pretty loose. I'm always attracted to the artists that have a, like a really loose, kind of, human style,… — Noah Van Sciver Copy Share Image
Sometimes people damage paintings or sculpture because they love it. They throw their arms around a statue in a fit of hysterical… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
When I first came to New York, I knew some painters older than myself. I was kind of the kid who was… — David Salle Copy Share Image
I don't think art changes the world, because if it did then we'd live in a better world. But it can change… — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
I'm interested in how paintings can change or transform - sometimes through close examination or viewed from afar; or how they hold… — Stephen Beal Copy Share Image
I feel like 'Next To Me' is a great introduction because it's a simple song that has a simple message for me.… — Emeli Sande Copy Share Image
That’s why an artist must be a warrior and, like all warriors, artists over time acquire modesty and humility. They may, some… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Beautiful forms and compositions are not made by chance, nor can they ever, in any material, be made at small expense. A… — Josiah Wedgwood Copy Share Image
I support the idea that artists have to make a stand. I'm with that - you're putting the discussion on the table… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
What comes forth from you as an artist cannot be controlled. But you have responsibilities as a global citizen. Your history dictates… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
No amount of technical knowledge and competence is, of itself, sufficient to make a craftperson into an artist. That requires caring -… — Freeman Patterson Copy Share Image
Since art is the expression of beauty and beauty can be understood only in the form of the material elements of the… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
Not since the Lord himself showed his stuff to Ezekiel in the valley of dry bones had anyone brought such grace and… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Art tends toward balance, order, judgment of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of living – very good things for… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
In volume and velocity, the new media are making available testimony on a previously unimaginable scale. I'm neither as romantic about the… — Rob Nixon Copy Share Image
The best artists know what to leave out. They know how much of the support should show through as the pigment is… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Growing up I wasn’t sure I was female. As I grew further I wanted to be a lesbian but I wasn’t sure… — Del LaGrace Volcano Copy Share Image
“I end up standing in front of the nearby painting with my arms and legs open wide, flapping them around and doing… — Elle Casey Copy Share Image
I just hope I can continue to do work that matters to me, I’m not interested in being any kind of superstar… — Darren Criss Copy Share Image
It's disgusting. Why would people idolize someone who doesn’t do anything and saying you're a model/photographer with a digital camera and photoshop… — Ryan Ross Copy Share Image
I think as consumers Europeans are a lot more artist loyal irrespective of the genre of music or the type of project… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
Those who dismiss rappers as vulgar outsiders miss the way that Jay-Z and Kanye embody the American dream: starting from humble beginnings,… — Andrew Hoberek Copy Share Image
He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When you make something, if you are a painter or a writer, a degree, or a sculptor or whatever or a musician,… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
Oriental DreamWorks did a lot of the surfacing of the village [in Kung Fu Panda 3] and you know all the little… — Jennifer Yuh Nelson Copy Share Image
If I'm doing my job correctly, I'm presenting a scenario for you as the reader to engage with on your own. I… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
I will never get tired of looking at works by Pablo Picasso. I will never get tired of looking at work by… — Polly Allen Mellen Copy Share Image
“I know vaudeville isn't supposed to be art . It's supposed to be entertainment, which is different. But I think art...I think… — Robert Jackson Bennett Copy Share Image
I just think that it's maybe fashionable today to try to take individual actions and individual failures and take the broadest possible… — Lee Scott Copy Share Image
“I had a classmate who was very good at drawing. When ever he drew a face, he'd draw cross so that the… — Takeshi Obata Copy Share Image
I'm very picky about the kind of work that I do, and I'm fortunate to have been able to work with great… — Jurnee Smollett-Bell Copy Share Image
“(Rome) is a Metropolitan Museum of Art the size of Manhattan, no roof, no display cases, and half a million combustion engines… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
With Australian audiences, there's a certain level of education - as far as how much access and exposure they have to music… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
“Klimt’s work is beautiful and painted with minute attention to detail; but looking at it, don’t you think there’s something kind of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It's important to remind kids who obviously love writing and creating, that's it's going to be the most important part of what… — Declan McKenna Copy Share Image
People often say that aesthetics is a branch of psychology. The idea is that once we are more advanced-all the mysteries of… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
I think culture and art tell you what the soul of a nation is, and if we continue to chip away at… — Lesley Sharp Copy Share Image
I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my… — Peter Wright Copy Share Image
![“Oriental DreamWorks did a lot of the surfacing of the village [in Kung Fu Panda 3] and you know all the little paintings on all the gables and everything? They have meaning, and they could do that because they know what that means, we don't necessarily know about that over here.” quote by Jennifer Yuh Nelson](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/c0c/jennifer-yuh-nelson-9435_artist_oriental-dreamworks-did-a-lot-of-the-sur_2469620.jpg)
