Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Men, when they fight in movies, it's a very different style. Harrison Ford was so cool when he had the whip, and… — Lucy Liu Copy Share Image
Truth and reality in art do not arise until you no longer understand what you are doing and are capable of but… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
In retrospect, the pace of change in the arts and industry in the nineteenth century seems pretty glacial. Painting, music, the novel,… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don't… — Banksy Copy Share Image
“both you and paintings are layered… first, ephemera and notations on the back of the canvas. Labels indicate gallery shows, museum shows,… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I tried the odd overhead kick in my time. Of course I did. But I knew my limitations as a striker. I'd… — Chris Sutton Copy Share Image
“Define the perimeter of your life. Set it beyond the realm of possibility. Then from there begin to paint in between the… — Josh Blatter Copy Share Image
For me, it's just a normal artistic endeavour to explore the dark side. Certainly, I'm not alone in it. Artists generally don't… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active,… — Leonard Baskin Copy Share Image
“It feels better to speak in metaphor, easier. It’s saying the truth without actually saying the truth. You could only speak to… — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
The '80s market was only a Japanese market. It was the Japanese outbidding each other for the most expensive works of art.… — Arne Glimcher Copy Share Image
Madonna, I think, is the greatest visual musical artist that we've ever had. If you look at her photo log, the photographers… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
Art comes into being in that abstract interval between a thought and reality, and no one - not even the artist who… — Edgar Alwin Payne Copy Share Image
An artist's initial broad stroke is always most impactful, and obsessively adding layer upon layer of paint to fill in details often… — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
I think you put art out into the world, and sometimes it's divisive, sometimes it's embraced. Sometimes people cry, laugh or have… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
If some people are right, artists are put into this world not to practice their art, but to talk about it. And… — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
There are no forms in nature. Nature is a vast, chaotic collection of shapes. You as an artist create configurations out of… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Far from affording artists continuous inspiration, mass-media sources for art have become a dead end. They have combined with the abstractness of… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
Memories are like a still life painted by ten different student artists: some will be blue-based; others red; some will be as… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result,… — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
For me, graffiti means making marks on surfaces using just about anything, be it markers, spray, paint, chalk, lipstick, varnish, ink. Or… — Barry McGee Copy Share Image
Art is a high calling - fears are coincidental. Coincidental, sneaky and disruptive, we might add, disguising themselves variously as laziness, resistance… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
“Wingate sighs thoughtfully. "Hard to say. He's not static. He began with almost pure Impressionism, which is dead. Anyone can do it.… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
I love the way art moves people emotionally. I love the fact that when someone purchases art it is the one thing… — Jack White Copy Share Image
Every artist, every scientist, must decide now where he stands. He has no alternative. There is no standing above the conflict on… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
“Artists operating within the theistic worldview have a solid basis for their work. Nothing is more freeing than for them to realize… — James W. Sire Copy Share Image
Probably the first artist who really captured me was Tim McGraw. His songs 'Don't Take the Girl' and 'Indian Outlaw' were fun,… — Mickie James Copy Share Image
Part of my success with urban bachata is reinventing yourself as an artist and continuing to give people different kind of fusions,… — Romeo Santos Copy Share Image
Pollock said several times that he couldn't separate himself from his art. Not knowing much about modern art when I began to… — Ed Harris Copy Share Image
When I was younger I would always listen to female artists that are my age now and I felt like I couldn't… — Beatrice Miller Copy Share Image
I'm sorry that our country and the people do not consider the arts as vital to our well-being as, say, medicine. Suffering… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
All art is an intensely vulnerable gesture, and it is made with no small amounts of risk, and fear. So, I have… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
You can't make an artist like Lady Gaga. You can help support, you can help develop the vision - I think you… — Troy Carter Copy Share Image
“Your life is a movie. You are the main character. You say your scripts and act to your lines. Of course you… — Happy Positivity Copy Share Image
One question you ask as a writer or any kind of artist when you start making something is, 'Does this have reason… — Mike Bartlett Copy Share Image
“The representative element in a work of art may or may not be harmful; always it is irrelevant. For, to appreciate a… — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
I feel that when I am painting, it is a form of worship. I see how wonderful nature is and how wonderful… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
How does an artist know when the line that he just painted is good or not good? That's the catch. De Kooning… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
