I don't know any artists or painters, like, "Oh that painting group." I want to write down this idea of a group… — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
To decide to reach for this blue and not that one, to switch styles or subject matter, to move, in the middle… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
The painter stood entranced before the work which he hadwrought;... he grew tremulous and ... crying with a loud voice, This is… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Here, in Lorrain's poisoned little jewel of a tale (“The Man Who Made Wax Heads”) the consummate achievement of decadent art is… — Jennifer Birkett Copy Share Image
I started in the late 70s, beginning of the 80s, and I think I started to sing and make music as a… — Mari Boine Copy Share Image
I often use an old canvas and I particularly enjoy painting over something I've already done, allowing bits to come jumping through… — Myfanwy Pavelic Copy Share Image
Graffiti is a lot easier than the canvas actually, because it's such a large format, so when you're going to such a… — Alec Monopoly Copy Share Image
There were some types of sanctions that happen in the public world that made my work acceptable, where someone looks at the… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
And yet the artist will go on with his work without knowing in some way if any of his representations are sound… — Plato Copy Share Image
“She is not a bulldog, only a woman pressed into the shape of a small jar, possibly attempting to dance in there.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
As an artist, you need to be not at all entitled in your relation with the work. So money is kind of… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
If I did a Rock record, it would be equally as truthful because I love Rock. I had to actually sing to… — Estelle Copy Share Image
“Art is pleasurable, and that adds value to life. It’s also inspirational and influential. It isn’t the same thing as being the… — Nicole Ciacchella Copy Share Image
“Frustrated with drawing, I switched to the printmaking department, where I overturned great buckets of ink. After trying my hand at sculpture,… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Firstly, I am not a comedian. I have a sense of doing comedy but I am a character artist. If the character… — Ashok Saraf Copy Share Image
A painter must not only be of necessity an imitator of the works of nature... but he must be as necessarily an… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Composition is for the most part an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Beauty and art, no doubt, pervade all business of life like a kindly genius, and form the bright adornment of all our… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
The art of our time, sacred art included, will necessarily be characterized by a certain poverty, grimness and roughness which correspond to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
People mistakenly think that art is about nature, or about an artists feelings about nature. It is instead a path of enlightenment… — Wolf Kahn Copy Share Image
I really believe in empty spaces, although, as an artist, I make a lot of junk. Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
I've always gone to see all kinds of shows and stole what I could, as we all do. We see an artist… — Brenda Lee Copy Share Image
“Life and art are nothing but associations of ideas and sorrows that nourish our illusory quest for the Holy Grail of human… — Carl William Brown Copy Share Image
Don't wish for "secrets" of the masters, either. There are none worth fooling with. They had no special mediums or paints, nor… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
I'm interested in color belonging to something, where it takes on a completely new kind of vibrancy, rather than being what you… — Euan Uglow Copy Share Image
Dolly's first hit, 'Jolene,' became a country hit that crossed into the pop charts. The chance of this happening to an artist… — Porter Wagoner Copy Share Image
“The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies… Art is the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Some artists see a gig as an audience worshipping them. I think it is about having a great time together. I have… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
In country music, there are certain female artists, like Gretchen Wilson, where you're going to find lesbians because they're responding to that… — Melissa Etheridge Copy Share Image
It is sometimes forgotten how much wit there is in certain works of abstract art. There is a certain point in undergoing… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
Sometimes, being a feminist artist, there are times where I'm in a position where I just want to feel like I'm saying… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
There are some superficial things that connect me to the stream. There's instrumentation, there's timbre, use of electronics, the way that samples… — Missy Mazzoli Copy Share Image
All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It… — Alexander Trocchi Copy Share Image
“The fractured self is not something that needs to be rectified fixed and made whole; by freeing thought of the blinkers of… — Ria Banerjee Copy Share Image
Through the experience of art, the powers of perception and transformation can be awakened, in both those who create it and those… — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
“You get to choose what you want to be. You don’t need skills you were born with or permission. If you want… — Dana Schwartz Copy Share Image
“An new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces. More commonly it's modeled of baling wire and acne. More commonly… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
How would you judge an artist who mutilated animals in a gallery because it was visually arresting? How riveting would the sound… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Other [artists'] music is really what you get most inspiration from, whether consciously or subconsciously. I like a lot of old music… — Ben Rector Copy Share Image
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