One could think of a person who seems to have two opposing and contradictory sides to his personality; but it turns out… — Manuel Alvarez Bravo Copy Share Image
“For the first time, we recognized a medium that takes our ordinary, everyday objects like bowls, baskets, and quilts and elevates them… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Basically, the prosecutor who led case against me and that administration were trying to say that an actor can be held responsible… — Harry Reems Copy Share Image
I just want to be a storyteller, and I think the way to do that is by your lyrics, by your visuals,… — Dawn Richard Copy Share Image
I have a pretty big range of interests. I love art; I love going to the museums. I dabble in painting, and… — Mira Sorvino Copy Share Image
I try to keep my sitters moving and talking, to make them forget they are being painted. This has nothing to do… — Oskar Kokoschka Copy Share Image
“Art is love-times-love; the creator loves it and his audience adores it. To miss the sensation of loving art is to miss… — Vincent Price Copy Share Image
In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I think half the point of painting a picture is that you don't know what will happen... that if painters did know… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
Science is the special province of the ego. And magic and art are the special province of something else. I could name… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The war between the artist and writer and government or orthodoxy is one of the tragedies of humankind. One chief enemy is… — Helen Foster Snow Copy Share Image
Artistic truth is for me literally the highest truth: art may seize the essence of persons and movements no less truly, and… — Israel Zangwill Copy Share Image
I think every painting should be the same size and the same color so they're all interchangeable and nobody thinks they have… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
New York City is just one node on the global cultural scene now. Social media reflects the state of the world, so… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Surgery is not my job. I have been the first artist to use aesthetic surgery in another context - not to appear… — Orlan Copy Share Image
“I can't help thinking of Jackson Pollock, who poured, splattered and lashed the canvass with strings of paint. His process was about… — Jocelyn Lieu Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to be a diva. All the artists I admire from Madonna to Whitney to Mariah have all been called… — Jessie J Copy Share Image
I'm a musician, so for the most part I've always thought that the musicians were equally as inspiring to listen to -… — Vince Gill Copy Share Image
I'm not belittling the art world. Not at all. I take it quite seriously, actually. But the logic of art is a… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
If you want to compete in Italy, the only accepted ways are brute force, or cunning. Like Machiavelli says, "Fronte otra forze."… — Francesco Clemente Copy Share Image
The basic principle I have is that what is most Korean is what is the most international. I don't want to come… — PSY Copy Share Image
At school, if I was ever bored in class, I would draw maps of islands or detailed interior of boats or lists… — Michelle Magorian Copy Share Image
I dislike the word 'emerging artist.' Emerging connotes to me an alligator coming up from the water. I consider all artists to… — Jack White Copy Share Image
Reggie Watts is a most unusual talent: a huge vocal range, a natural musicality, and a sidesplitting wit. Is he a comedian?… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Artists lead unglamorous daily lives of discipline and routine, but their work is full of passion. Each has a vision and feels… — Merrill Brockway Copy Share Image
I wonder a lot about making things meaningful. You want to do meaningful work and make art, but you're making records, which… — Doseone Copy Share Image
Nature can afford to be prodigal in everything, the artist must be frugal down to the last detail. Nature is garrulous to… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
It seems absolutely wrong that people should be able to profit in this cynical way from an event that is designed to… — James Purnell Copy Share Image
...it is in the nature of original contemporary art to present itself as a bad risk. And we the public...should be proud… — Leo Steinberg Copy Share Image
I love working with young artists. Jacob Latimore was the first kid that I auditioned. After he walked out, I turned to… — Kasi Lemmons Copy Share Image
You know, art is very emotional business. But mostly it becomes not emotional, the fabric of commodity. It becomes business. It becomes… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
Art is an aspect of God and there is only one God, but different people see Him in different ways. Though He… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
A weird thing is a strange loop, what some of us call 'an object.' Thus it is looked down on by the… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
If I hold up a red square for 30 seconds and take it away, you will see a perfect green square. It's… — Robert Irwin Copy Share Image
I think when I work with artists, I'm at their service, and I'm at the service of either their vision or a… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
I couldn't do country, with all due respect to all country music artists. My parents dressed me up with a cowboy hat… — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
I am an expressionist and by that I mean that I'm not a photographer or a writer or a painter or a… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
You start creating art through the people that are looking at you, trying to route it through their sensibilities or their eyes,… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
