Art is like therapy; what comes up is what comes up. It may be dark, but that's what comes up. You may… — Nick Bantock Copy Share Image
I don't think that my art isn't serious. I think the subjects are not serious, or my treatments of the subjects are… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work it means there's a potential for… — Richard Serra Copy Share Image
“However," he continued, "this canvas is preferable to the paintings of that varlet Rubens, with his mountains of Flemish flesh sprinkled with… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
The graphic emphasis placed on those first lines is rather hard to square with the proposition that the monument expresses no particular… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
I like to work in the real world, so I do a lot of searching or just simple looking. But I'm not… — Keith Carter Copy Share Image
Leonardo da Vinci was a man of regal spirit and tremendous breadth of mind; and his name became so famous that not… — Giorgio Vasari Copy Share Image
Art gives its vision to beauty not always recognized. And it surrenders freely -- whatever power it possesses to every sincere soul… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
One of the coolest moments for me is still when Kenny G came back to a venue to find me and personally… — Antoniette Costa Copy Share Image
I don't always enjoy curating, but I do believe it's part of my job. It's a good exercise for my brain, like… — Takashi Murakami Copy Share Image
When I travel, I always take my Winsor & Newton watercolor kit, which is the size of a pack of cigarettes when… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
I loved the idea of Bowie as an artist, with his Burroughsian cut-up technique, creating these undecipherable, abstract songs, where we all… — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
It's my intention to make something stand outside the realm of album art, but it also feels comfortable to me to be… — John Dyer Baizley Copy Share Image
General anxiety is the bridge between the manic joys of creation, exploration, new revelations, professional acceptance and reward, and the depression of… — Oliver $ Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter one damn bit whether fashion is art or not. You don't question whether an incredible chef is an artist… — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
I think that a visual artist's philosophy develops much more freely than a writer's or a thinker's philosophy. It is not so… — Manuel Alvarez Bravo Copy Share Image
I don't want people to think about one common thing. Coda is non-discursive, just like choreography for the stage. So each audience… — Martine Epoque Copy Share Image
Put a colour upon a canvas - it not only colours with that colour the part of the canvas to which the… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I like when I do interviews with an artist and they may not have liked an artist at first but after they… — Angela Yee Copy Share Image
Look at all the stuff the Existentialists did. You can start with [Pablo] Picasso, you know, and then Francis Bacon and other… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
I do want to have that feeling that people are actively involved in something, rather than just consuming something. I suppose that's… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
These days, newish art can be priced between $10,000 and $25,000. When I tell artists that a new painting by a newish… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The pursuit of art is a delicate balance between influence and self-assertiveness. As self-realized artists, we all have different levels of tolerance… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Let the artist have just enough to eat, and the tools of this trade: ask nothing of him. Materially make the life… — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
Every art form changes, often at rates and in ways that cause discomfort to its devotees. But the arts also have a… — A. O. Scott Copy Share Image
Gwen Stefani quotes I remember when I was in school, they would ask, 'What are you going to be when you grow… — Gwen Stefani Copy Share Image
Sometimes the European and North American public like some things to be exotic and kept at arm's length. They don't want sometimes… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Art is fueled by rebellion: the need, in some amounting to obsessions, to resist what is, to defy one's elders, even to… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
You desire a popular art? Begin by having a "people" whose minds are liberated, a people not crushed by misery and ceaseless… — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
All art that is not mere storytelling, or mere portraiture, is symbolic, and has the purpose of those symbolic talismans which medieval… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I pay homage and respect to Bobby Womack [for Black History Month] knowing that he passed last year... Him being one of… — Big K.R.I.T Copy Share Image
To me, editing is not something you can do in a rush because the artists themselves are not always their own best… — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
“And that is how a self-seeking hotchpotch distorts and debases the very finest social schemes. It is the black vein in white… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“This is a painting by a French painter who's 35-year old named Francois Arnal, it's called The Drowning Woman…I certainly don't see… — Jean Seberg Copy Share Image
No one would have the courage to walk up to a writer and ask to look at the last few pages of… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
If the bottom dropped out of the market and the artist was not going to sell anything, he or she will keep… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
“No one but another painter could know the delicacy required to balance the complexities, to keep reality at bay in order to… — Susan Vreeland Copy Share Image
“Some fifteen years ago in London there was an exhibition of the works of a certain sculptor, which contained many sane and… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
“In a poem, melody, or picture, we are forced with a mystery: quality in the metaphysical sense of the word. How could… — Alija Izetbegović Copy Share Image
When painting a landscape it is desirable to walk through the clumps and around the bushes, around the trees, the houses and… — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
![“Look at all the stuff the Existentialists did. You can start with [Pablo] Picasso, you know, and then Francis Bacon and other guys like that. What they were doing is depicting suffering. And that's exactly what a demon is, he's pretending that he isn't. So he can get more people down there. You…” quote by Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/fdd/paul-laffoley-7077_company_look-at-all-the-stuff-the-existentialist_1903239.jpg)
![“I pay homage and respect to Bobby Womack [for Black History Month] knowing that he passed last year... Him being one of those artists that I have really sampled so much and just been so inspired by... You know, he is the original ‘soul man.’” quote by Big K.R.I.T](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/9db/big-k-r-i-t-10118_artist_i-pay-homage-and-respect-to-bobby-womack_1401609.png)
