I have to accept my role. I will never kill myself like Vincent Van Gogh. Nor will I paint beautiful water lilies… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Country music artists are staying true to their roots, keeping it country but throwing a little bit of rock flair in there… — Jason Aldean Copy Share Image
I guess artists are living inspiration. There's something very pure about a person that fantasizes. I like hearing their stories, watching them… — Dasha Zhukova Copy Share Image
Self-portraits have been done in painting, but never in music or literature. It has no meaning, it makes no sense. And in… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
My father used to say, 'If you want to know the artist, look at the art'. He was usually talking about Stanley… — David Peace Copy Share Image
As I very much liked to draw and paint as a child, I entered a special art program in high school, which… — Jerome Isaac Friedman Copy Share Image
Basically, at this time, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste and saw the individual making… — Henry Flynt Copy Share Image
Everybody asks 'would you fight Conor McGregor?' - of course I'd fight Conor McGregor but it's not because of the money. It's… — Stephen Thompson Copy Share Image
Ah! What avails the classic bent And what the cultured word, Against the undoctored incident That actually occurred? And what is Art… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
I think one important thing that happens in the studio is accepting yourself as the enemy and painting from that point of… — Lisa Yuskavage Copy Share Image
The pernicious influence of the prize and medal giving in art is so great that it should be stopped. History proves that… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure...ther e is always, everywhere, an enormous amount of suffering. But I… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
“Laura's mind was already racing with the creative possibilities presented to her. She whipped out her sketchbook and started to work away… — Paula Brackston Copy Share Image
Self-consciousness is almost the biggest thing you have to deal with as an artist. That's why many artists crash and burn, because… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
No matter how many times people say I'm like this or that artist, it never sticks. Slowly but surely people are going… — Sisqo Copy Share Image
In the Renaissance there wasn't a distinction. Bernini was an artist and he made architecture, and Michelangelo also did some great architecture. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
There are great disciplines from being a sportsman that you can transfer into being an artist. The preparation, the sacrifice, the constant… — Matt Smith Copy Share Image
I liken all jobs to decorating. If you don't do the preparation, sand down and prime first, you won't get a good… — Sean Lock Copy Share Image
Me as an artist, I'm more notorious for writing songs that celebrate women, songs that are all about the positive element of… — Ne-Yo Copy Share Image
In fact, I believe to a certain extent a person today who starts with just clay, with no drawing and no painting… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
A lot of artists still will not get that far. And get that far and be as successful. So, it's a great… — Ginuwine Copy Share Image
“It seemed to me that the baker had an honest response to the painting. Van Ruijven tried too hard when he looked… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
Every canvas that can awaken us more exquisitely and accurately to the infinite and various surface of our experience does that much… — Alton Tobey Copy Share Image
If I spend time conceiving and making a piece of art, and somebody else sees that it has market value and replicates… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in art and making things, but I chose not to go to art school because I thought I… — Stephen Hillenburg Copy Share Image
When you get older, you're running out of time. You care more about trying to stay on the planet a little longer,… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
I'm self-deprecating, but I'm an artist, too. I have to write new songs to chronicle stuff for myself. I write a song… — Steve Forbert Copy Share Image
I've had production offers with artists I really admire, and oftentimes that doesn't work out. Sometimes it does, but... For instance I… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
Self-painting is a further development of painting. The pictorial surface has lost its function as sole expressive support. It was led back… — Gunter Brus Copy Share Image
Its social: in doing the arts we find out what we need from each other. But its also about survival - surviving… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
“Your mind is the canvas upon which you are the artist. What will you paint on your canvas today? Will you draw… — James A. Murphy Copy Share Image
Painters paint outdoors, or in rooms full of people; they paint their lovers, alone, naked; they paint and eat; they paint and… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
When I go to an art gallery and stand in front of a painting, I don't want someone telling me what I… — James Frey Copy Share Image
The issue is Kinkade's ideology, and particularly his nostalgia; his paintings endlessly trumpet a nonexistent past when times were simpler and morality… — Paddy Johnson Copy Share Image
“Evidently, a given object took no particular amount of time to draw; instead the artist took the time, or didn’t take it,… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
If you are living a life that feels right to you, if you're willing to take creative chances or a creative path… — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if that's what you'd call it for eight years in… — Bill Griffith Copy Share Image
When I was doing something on someone else's dime, I was inclined to try to anticipate what they wanted. I knew that… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
Who is the best rapper ever? I'll probably have to say Eminem. I would definitely say Eminem. He came from a whole… — Akon Copy Share Image
The Canadian painter A. Y. Jackson noted that 'failure of sight' was a tiresome problem. He meant we should be able to… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
