I have never understood, for instance, why some people see contemporary art as divided between 'painting' and 'conceptual art', as though this… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which doesn't mean a thing… — Beatrice Wood Copy Share Image
To me to be a solo artist means I can do so many new and exciting things and I feel very strongly… — Melissa Auf der Maur Copy Share Image
To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
You're going to be entertained. But when you finish hearing me singing, you're going to want to keep going, and you're going… — Jacob Lusk Copy Share Image
I'm purposeless. I'm making art because I want you to look at that painting and I want it to affect you in… — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
My goal is to continue working with passionate, driven, artists who are willing to think out of the box, and to keep… — Nicholas Galitzine Copy Share Image
I have never heard a dancer asking for advice about how to stay focused on her footwork, or a painter complaining about… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“There, then, is the role of the amateur: to look the world back to grace. There, too, is the necessity of his… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
As an artist grows older, he has to fight disillusionment and learn to establish the same relation to nature as an adult,… — Charles E. Burchfield Copy Share Image
I just feel like I'm an artist that still has set a standard for artists that come up to follow and be… — Ginuwine Copy Share Image
“Limitations foster creativity. Tell an artist to paint anything, and he may struggle, but tell him to create something specific, in a… — wildbow Copy Share Image
Half of the pleasure of painting and feeling the joy of the creative act is sharing it with others and the feeling… — Sara Genn Copy Share Image
“Whenever an artist becomes dominated by his own ignorance, his art loses value, for it is only the professional artist that can… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
The place has had a super-conflicted relationship to its mission. In 1956, it opened as the Museum of Contemporary Crafts. Then in… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Unnur Birna is a Reykjavik-based violinist and singer. She has performed as a session musician with countless Icelandic and international artists while… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
My journey has been very nice and gradual and steady. And I've found that my development as a human is very much… — Jade Hassoune Copy Share Image
Canadian artists in Canada, if you're not doing something big internationally, they definitely don't give us super big respect right away. You… — Karl Wolf Copy Share Image
I have known know many therapists who come out of Pacifica Graduate Institute and love being both artists and therapists at the… — Kelly Carlin-McCall Copy Share Image
“There is a danger in exposing yourself to too much vapid art. It can weaken your judgment and erode your sensibilities, until… — David Farland Copy Share Image
As you get up in the morning, as you make decisions, as you spend money, make friends, make commitments, you are creating… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
“To my mind the most interesting thing in art is the personality of the artist; and if that is singular, I am… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I'm so hands-on and involved in my own music that I feel like if I put the same effort into another artist,… — Freddie Gibbs Copy Share Image
Your big picture will never be a masterpiece if you ignore the tiny brushstrokes. You're trying so hard to be successful that… — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
I made work specifically for them not to like. If you made paintings of flowers and someone says they hate it, it's… — Josh Smith Copy Share Image
From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out… — Reynolds Price Copy Share Image
Science for me is very close to art. Scientific discovery is an irrational act. It's an intuition which turns out to be… — Carlo Rubbia Copy Share Image
I didn't want make art about the internet at all. It's a really hard subject to take on and I did not… — Erika M. Anderson Copy Share Image
The giant white cube is now impeding rather than enhancing the rhythms of art. It preprograms a viewer's journey, shifts the emphasis… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Above and beyond drawing my creations, I try to incorporate some kind of message. I try not to end as merely a… — Natsuki Takaya Copy Share Image
The old-fashioned idea that the simple piling up of experiences, one on top of another, can make you an artist, is, of… — Helen Hayes Copy Share Image
I go to make art as who I am as a person. The fact that I am a woman comes into play… — Judy Chicago Copy Share Image
I just love when you're watching a live performance and the artist brings people out on stage: the surprise, the energy you… — Amelia Dimoldenberg Copy Share Image
... everyone's free to embark on either a great clipper or a little fishing boat. An artist is an explorer who oughtn't… — George Sand Copy Share Image
Life is not bad, and it doesn't look more real if it's ugly or it's gritty. Think of your own life. Most… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
The selective instinct of the artist tells him when his language should be homely, and when it should be more elevated; and… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Life is different than it was in the Nineties. I'm a dad, and there are other things I have to get done… — Chris Robinson Copy Share Image
“I want to paint something that no one has ever painted before," he was saying. I almost laughed at that -- doesn't… — Mary F. Burns Copy Share Image
