I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
I like doing clay work. It's different from drawing on a page because you have something to mold into different shapes. It's… — Bonnie Wright Copy Share Image
The fact that a thirteen-year-old project still resonates and can still have a large exhibit with lots of newspaper, magazine and TV… — Peter Menzel Copy Share Image
My recent drawings that personal ones aren't fashion-related. I sometimes sit and draw people on the bus, or some fantasy hybrid animal.… — Giles Deacon Copy Share Image
Sometimes touring can warp reality because you're never in one place long enough to get a feel for it. You don't interact… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
[An artist] will sooner and with more certainty, establish the character of skeletons, than the most learned anatomist, whose eye has not… — Rembrandt Peale Copy Share Image
Art was not a thing for my family and is still not a thing for my family. My family will not go… — Amy Sherald Copy Share Image
Because of piracy there has been a massive downturn in people buying music, which makes it more difficult for artists to make… — Lily Allen Copy Share Image
I'm a guy desperately in need of buffers. I have big feelings, big reactions, big emotions. All the things that serve me… — Kurt Sutter Copy Share Image
The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You must first realize the thing completely in your mind. Then grasp the brush, fix your attention so that you see clearly… — Morris Graves Copy Share Image
The extreme proposition on which Giacometti based all his mature work was that no reality... could ever be shared. This is why… — John Berger Copy Share Image
As musicians and artists, it's important we have an environment - and I guess when I say environment, I really mean the… — Lauryn Hill Copy Share Image
Despite the fact that I trust the people at major labels who tell me that they want to offer me a home… — Ted Leo Copy Share Image
“If we, citizens do not support our artists, then we sacrifice out imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
The material memories are not usually part of what is said about a picture, and that is a fault in interpretation because… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
Somehow I felt that if Fox Talbot had had more time and more drawing talent, he would have filled in the interval… — John Pfahl Copy Share Image
Daumier paints with an enormous capacity for absolute empathy; a complete identification of himself with the figures he paints. He sets forth… — David Sylvester Copy Share Image
When I am working a book, I go through my library and take a look through some of the great cartoonists of… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
In Brazil, when you say you're going to be an artist you always get that point of view that this is a… — Rodrigo Santoro Copy Share Image
You see, for me [art]'s not one of life's ornaments, rococo relaxation to be greeted affably after a day of hard work;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Thus, Michelangelo filled the chapel with hidden messages of his passionate loves and his righteous rages, along with mystic symbols of divine… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
By arts, sails, and oars, ships are rapidly moved; arts move the light chariot, and establish love. [Lat., Arte citae veloque rates… — Ovid Copy Share Image
With watercolour, you can pick up the atmosphere, the temperature, the sound of snow shifting through the trees or over the ice… — Andrew Wyeth Copy Share Image
The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“I don’t know anything about art so I can’t tell you that it’s watercolor or acrylic or that it’s on canvas or… — Katja Millay Copy Share Image
I hate it when people call me a cage fighter. I'm a mixed martial artist. But people take one look at what… — Michael Bisping Copy Share Image
When I was living in New York, I had this slightly wannabe bohemian existence and took up painting, at which I'm appalling.… — Eddie Redmayne Copy Share Image
When you think about Dada and the great moments in Modern Art, it's always the sense of when you're not sure that… — Richard Phillips Copy Share Image
Each film has its processes. It doesn't mean that all animated films have to be like "Boy and the World," but creators… — Alex Abreu Copy Share Image
I think the real problem is that nobody buys albums anymore, so you don't get the depth of the artists that are… — Gary Allan Copy Share Image
In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced… — Beverly Pepper Copy Share Image
The general ideas which are expressed in sketches, correspond very well to the art often used in poetry... every reader making out… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
“For example, they recently had a piece on a character--I think his name was Ambrosio D'Urbervilles--whose "design statement" was to stuff an… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Practically all great artists accept the influence of others. But... the artist with vision sees his material, chooses, changes, and by integrating… — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
I believe your success is based off what your goals are. Are you trying to feed your family or have plaques on… — Yo Gotti Copy Share Image
Just as Pollock used the drip to meld process and product, Richter 'found' and used the smudge and the blur to ravish… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
In science we see progress. In art there is no progress. In art the questions have always been the same. From the… — Christian Boltanski Copy Share Image
If one has set for himself the position that his painting shall not misconstrue his personal mode of thinking, then he must… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
I'd been painting rats for three years before someone said 'that's clever it's an anagram of art' and I had to pretend… — Banksy Copy Share Image