There are websites of 'True Detective' artwork out there now, and it's beautiful. And I don't want to take that away from… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
It may be fine for an artist to be indifferent to the reaction of the viewer to a work of art. A… — Richard Edelman Copy Share Image
Perhaps... I mean there are people who defend that it as an art. I don't. I like it but it's not an… — Mark Morris Copy Share Image
I majored in illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design, although I never had any intention of being an illustrator and… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
“All art is portraiture and all art is political: those are the things that you cannot avoid. When someone sees you in… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
I try and absorb all the things that I respect in the artist's I've worked with.When we work with someone on, Live… — Eliot Lewis Copy Share Image
What's good about many people liking the work is that when I want to collaborate or am interested in the synergy of… — Rei Kawakubo Copy Share Image
When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word -religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.… — Katharine Graham Copy Share Image
The situation is that of him who is helpless, cannot act, in the event cannot paint, since he is obliged to paint.… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
There are all very different directors. Some are more specific, some are calmer than others when the pressure is on, some use… — E.J. Bonilla Copy Share Image
...in our time art is encrusted with a noisy, opaque, logorrhea of theory that prevents a work from coming into direct, media… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
To my father, art had no restrictions. He was a true 'American Primitive.' He greatly enjoyed sketching and photography, carrying a camera… — John Carter Cash Copy Share Image
Only by pairing knowledge with inspiration will art evolve. Without these conditions any musician will remain a flawed artist, if one may… — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
The more money you make, the more the culture already attracts you to serve it, with an aura of glitter and power,… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
“A statue of Arturo Prat, hero of the Chilean Navy, surveyed it all. From under his statue I look up onto those… — Brian Keenan Copy Share Image
Not all artists have a responsibility to be socially or politically aware, but they do have a responsibility to make great art.… — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
Before I start carving the idea must be almost complete. I say 'almost' because the really important thing seems to be the… — Barbara Hepworth Copy Share Image
“Her last painting was of you, slouching against the front door: only your drowning I-had-a-lousy-Third-World-childhood-and-all-I-got-was-this-attitude eyes recognizable.” — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
Dating is like trying to catch a fish. Some guys go to the gym and have huge muscles and six-pack abs, and… — Brandon Wade Copy Share Image
Spectators around the world enjoyed watching Seve, but talking to a lot of the players, he made such an impression on them… — Ben Crenshaw Copy Share Image
While painting I noticed a piece of madras cloth on the floor. As usual, my mind started working overtime and a pair… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
“What does it mean to be a "real artist"? It means you are spending your time doing the things that matter most… — Jeff Goins Copy Share Image
Hip hop has always been, for us, for artists who are pure to the craft - any place overseas, whether it's Australia,… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
People tend to view land art as something that happened at a certain historical moment - like minimal art, which I was… — Virginia Dwan Copy Share Image
“A steampunk nation Baby pollution rises up then the loving comes arraigning 'cause Our art's official and only partially artificial And our… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
You'll nip anybody who's coming at you with bullshit. You don't play around. You take this craft very seriously. It's what separates… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
When I was a child, I dreamt of being a big star. I truly believed that I would be world famous someday,… — Jinkx Monsoon Copy Share Image
The painter I really thought I could learn from was Cezanne - some sort of resemblance to oranges and greens and browns… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
I usually have several things on the go. Whether it is my own drawings for the next work that I am working… — Patricia Piccinini Copy Share Image
Whitney Houston is my idol and my mentor and my dream forever, like she will always be my favorite artist, ever, on… — Brandy Norwood Copy Share Image
“I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous [person], the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the [person] in… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I remember being disappointed when Papa had shown me Caravaggio's Judith. She was completely passive while she was sawing through a man's… — Susan Vreeland Copy Share Image
“Paint, for the Impressionists, became a medium whose material properties were being celebrated as opposed to being disguised behind the artifice of… — Will Gompertz Copy Share Image
Ever since I was a kid, I might have been eleven or twelve. I'd be telling anyone who would listen that when… — Graeme Base Copy Share Image
Art proper, in other words, emerges when sensation can detach itself and gain an autonomy from its creator and its perceiver when… — Elizabeth Grosz Copy Share Image
“Art is not alone in imparting charm and mystery to the most insignificant things; pain is endowed with the same power to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The foreground in a picture is always unattractive... Art demands that the interest of the canvas should be placed in the far… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
We have seen so many exhibits in recent years where the exhibition design was aesthetically beautiful. In this case, if someone wants… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
Art and culture are the greatest weapons against hate agendas, entrenched ideologies, and power structures that harbor and promote the business of… — Fantastic Negrito Copy Share Image