There was an Israeli artist who was in grad school with me. I remember trying to get to know him on a… — Jill Soloway Copy Share Image
But I owe something to Vincent, and that is, in the consciousness of having been useful to him, the confirmation of my… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
“He smiled and squinted at me again, tilting his head up and to the right as he stared. “Maybe what I’m attracted… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
“There could be no objection to homicidal art as art. One could certainly object that an artwork made out of dead bodies… — John McAteer Copy Share Image
“She needed a confessor! Would she find it there, in the world of the artists? All over the world they had their… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
Artists and scientists are very close. They always have been, but I think we've just been divided out over the last few… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
Staying true to my vision, to the word as it comes to me, to my own aesthetic judgments, even when they disagree… — Micheline Aharonian Marcom Copy Share Image
I think it's always so magical when there's some sort of thing like that where an artist contributes musically, but also has… — Laufey Copy Share Image
I do remember when it occurred to me the first time, when I got the idea of painting the way I feel… — Maria Lassnig Copy Share Image
The creation of a work of art must of necessity, as a result of entering into the specific dimensions of pictorial art,… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
Great art comes from great artists. There's a bunch of people that are hurt that still couldn't have made the album that… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
By the time I discovered Chicano painters in the mid-'80s, I recognized that these guys were really world-class painters, but they weren't… — Cheech Marin Copy Share Image
“To question the world around us and all its complexities is not blasphamy, but simply using the mind God gave us for… — Cristina Marrero Copy Share Image
“I suppose I was artistic as a child. Our house was so full of art and artists that it never occurred to… — Wendy Froud Copy Share Image
There's obviously always danger in making music or art for art's sake. Even as Christians we can be guilty of that, being… — Steven Curtis Chapman Copy Share Image
Art flows more easily when you are not thinking about what 'should' be in it or how it 'should' be done. The… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Art is art, nature is nature, you cannot improve upon it… Pictures should be inspired by nature, but made in the soul… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
If I could talk about it, I would not have to do it. I make art, sometimes I make true art, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It is true that social media, nowadays, is important, but I don't understand everyone needing to know everything about an artist or… — Zoey Deutch Copy Share Image
Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
“There is a story told about the sculptor Michelangelo. As he was chiseling the statue David out of a huge marble block,… — Jeff Wheeler Copy Share Image
When making any record, a producer has a list of things you hope an artist brings to the studio. Songs that are… — Linda Perry Copy Share Image
The visual information of art history is going to students seamlessly, without the enormous trouble those of us who are older had… — Robert Nelson Copy Share Image
The truth is an artist like me who doesn't get the type of promotion that we see more commercial artists receive, and… — Chrisette Michele Copy Share Image
Anyone who’s ever put a stamp on an envelope or a note on their refrigerator knows what it’s like to make a… — Elliott Hundley Copy Share Image
I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up… — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
It's hard to predict and to say what goes on inside the minds of an artist, but that's what makes them an… — Tommy Mottola Copy Share Image
“It is often said that great works of art are “inexhaustible”—capable, as Stanley Olson put it, of “endless interpretation. But Lubin, the… — Roger Kimball Copy Share Image
Maybe the given person, cup, or landscape is lost before one gets to painting. A figure exerts a continuing and unspecified influence… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
The more I drive myself into the depth of my inside, the more things come up to my vision, visibly or invisibly...… — Hiroko Sakai Copy Share Image
When everything that is called art was well and truly riddled with rheumatism, the photographer lit the thousands of candles whose power… — Tristan Tzara Copy Share Image
Indie music is 'it' now. It's kind of a revolution to the music: 1980s, 1990s music was getting very sanitized; they were… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
When something is finished, that means it's dead, doesn't it? I believe in everlastingness. I never finish a painting - I just… — Arshile Gorky Copy Share Image
“The "Mona Lisa" is an optical illusion created by Leonardo Da Vinci. The woman in the painting "The Mona Lisa" doesn't appear… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
Every obstacle must at first be put in the path of the aspiring artist. For it is only those whom you cannot… — Harold Speed Copy Share Image
“Quit your complaining. It’s not the world’s fault that you wanted to be an artist. It’s not the world’s job to enjoy… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I get creeped out by Francis Bacon's paintings, and I can't say exactly why. They're all really disturbing, and there is an… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
If you subtracted all of the great artists who never drank, who never went to excess, you wouldn't have any more art… — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
Just give us 50 years where we're the only ones who are allowed to profit from art, and then you can do… — Hari Kondabolu Copy Share Image
