I continue to paint pictures from the corridor of life that few truly understand scattered words, broken voices, callused souls resting on… — Carl A Dixon Copy Share Image
Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne did it, Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
... what is so important is that you play for the artist and for the record and for the song ... everything… — James Burton Copy Share Image
If it weren't for Criminal Records, Wax-n-facts and other indie record stores I could have only sold my CD's at my shows… — Shawn Mullins Copy Share Image
In every human society of which we know - prehistoric, ancient or modern, whether hunter-gatherer, pastoral, agricultural or industrial - at least… — Ellen Dissanayake Copy Share Image
The sense of having to be the best at everything gets in the way of anybody doing anything. I put all that… — Vijay Iyer Copy Share Image
The basis of artistic creation is not what is, but what might be; not the real, but the possible. Artists create according… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
Suffering for your art is most definitely overrated but I do get a certain, I don't know, satisfaction from being able to… — Beth Gibbons Copy Share Image
My work is based on a tradition quite distinct from the Eckersberg tradition, a Nordic line of development that had never been… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
Faith receiveth the promise, embraceth it, and comforteth the soul unspeakably with it. Faith is so great an artist in arguing and… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
A sculptor is a person obsessed with the form and the shape of things, and it's not just Ihe shape of any… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Every piece of art starts as an empty canvas, a lump of clay, or a mixture of fabrics and colors. It's all… — Mick Mooney Copy Share Image
I'm a contemporary artist and I show in art galleries and museums. I show a number of photographs and films, but I… — Alison Jackson Copy Share Image
I just really feel so grateful to Sundance because I've always been an artist and I've never been able to make a… — Lynn Shelton Copy Share Image
Art as radar acts as an early alarm system, as it were, enabling us to discover social and psychic targets in lots… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The relationship between art and a job is not quite linear, but I really love any and all manifestations of art, really… — Lily Cole Copy Share Image
We didn't want to sign the painting itself, that would have interfered with the composition. And even later, for that reason or… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
We might adapt for the artist the joke about there being nothing more dangerous than instruments of war in the hands of… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty; but real admiration and permanent… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
“High culture is paranoid about sentiment, but human beings are intensely sentimental. And if art doesn’t speak language that’s acceptable to people,… — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
If I could paint a picture I'd paint you truth and sincerity, I'd paint my heart and yours floating in the lake… — Adurna Copy Share Image
I feel like I spent so much time trying to understand my identity and my identity as an artist. But when all… — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
Sol LeWitt had a huge influence on my work because of his use of repetition and his clarity, setting up a system… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
A sort of egotistical self-evaluation is unavoidable in those joys in which erudition and art mingle and in which aesthetic pleasure may… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I met Robert Crumb in 1962; he lived in Cleveland for a while. I took a look at his stuff. Crumb was… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
Whether it's a song or a television show, or a book or poem, art is the thing that cracks me open and… — Asia Kate Dillon Copy Share Image
You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, who have made up in their minds to be content with symbols rather than with… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Art should take what is complex and render it simply. It takes a lot of skill, human understanding, stamina, courage, energy, and… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
What we need is a critique of visual culture that is alert to the power of images for good and evil and… — William J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
As for the subject matter in my painting.. ..it is very often an incidental thing in the background, elusive and unclear, that… — William Baziotes Copy Share Image
And one of the things I noticed pretty early on in art school was that my classmates had no notion of an… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius, or something very small, comes to the… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Be Bold. It's just canvas, just paint. If it doesn't work for you, paint over it and start again. Don't be afraid… — Tiko Kerr Copy Share Image
Is it my role as an artist to say something, to express, to be expressive? I think it's my role as an… — Anish Kapoor Copy Share Image
“I think Seneca is right: life feels longer the more you engage with it… I should be loving sculpture! But I have… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
While filling color to someone's life to whom you really love & care, make sure to fill little color of joy &… — Navnath Godse Copy Share Image
