If I wanted to play the violin, I had to work. Because anything that one wants to do really, and one loves… — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
I think the narcissism comes from the industry side of things. The artistic side of a person is never narcissist; it's always… — Jordan Gavaris Copy Share Image
For a hundred years, modern painters, stubbornly and in the face of incessant hostility, have moved, step by step, leaving superb monuments… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
But I must work on in full calmness and serenity... The world concerns me only in so far as I feel a… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
There have been many different artists that have been inspirational. I suppose the question is directed to what was the reason why… — Boris Vallejo Copy Share Image
In the seventies, a group of American artists seized the means not of production but of reproduction. They tore apart visual culture… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac,… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
If you're true to the upliftment of people and the unity of people, raising the self-worth of people, then you live within… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
I find a ton of inspiration from the artists that I'm writing with, that I'm playing shows with, and that I'm sitting… — Chuck Ragan Copy Share Image
“We have lived for too long with the arts as the pretty bit around the edge with the reality as a non-artistic… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
Artists talk a lot about freedom. So, recalling the expression "free as a bird," Morton Feldman went to a park one day… — John Cage Copy Share Image
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“No artist knows everything (yea, even this artist - piss-artist, con-artist, body-artist) but since every artist knows more than he can tell,… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
Yeah, I guess for years I wanted to be an artist, and when I was growing up, lots of my family were… — Josh O'Connor Copy Share Image
It just makes you a better artist when you're with people who are great artists themselves. Being around Kanye, soaking up all… — Big Sean Copy Share Image
The consequence of making it a business thing and making an artist the same as a Wall Street trader is that you… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
If you get a song right for its usage at the time, it can be useful to others. ...Those songs are more… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What people are feeling is the similarity in what I do and how I'm capable of breaking a new artist into a… — Laurieann Gibson Copy Share Image
A painting can't be everything. You have to stop, at some point. It has to be finished, if you want anyone to… — John Slattery Copy Share Image
What we need more of is slow art: art that holds time as a vase holds water: art that grows out of… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
“Not at all. You look as though magic has taken hold of you. It must be magic because I don't know how… — Sharon Biggs Waller Copy Share Image
I chose 'The Voice' because I knew they had a lot more respect for each artist, as opposed to the other shows.… — Will Champlin Copy Share Image
It is to aid in making the arts operative rather than only positively or negatively pleasurable... it is to paint a record,… — Morris Graves Copy Share Image
Abstract art is only painting. And what's so dramatic about that? There is no abstract art. One must always begin with something.… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I love the challenges of, ultimately, the examination of what it is to be a human being in this world. I mean… — Noah Reid Copy Share Image
In Bergman's world I represented a sort of intellectual, skeptical, ironic person, rather cold and frustrated. When I went abroad and made… — Erland Josephson Copy Share Image
Many artists and critics see collectors like kids see their parents: as the ones with money and power who just don't get… — Mark Kostabi Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless, we react to one a bit differently than we do to Rothko’s hovering panels or Barnett Newman’s stripes, though Whistler does… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I think my iTunes is a kind of strange and embarrassing mix of show tunes and artists that I have no perception… — Anna Kendrick Copy Share Image
“I like that about art, that what you see is sometimes more about who you are than what’s on the wall. I… — Cath Crowley Copy Share Image
You know, Simon he's an artist representative, but Randy and Paula actually were in the industry as artists so they had, you… — Ruben Studdard Copy Share Image
I think that in Sweden and a lot of European countries, there's this whole mythology of the wounded artist: that you can't… — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
In every artist we can perceive a man with both a message and a method. His message may be innate in him,… — Brander Matthews Copy Share Image
The stuff of thought is the seed of the artist. Dreams form the bristles of the artist's brush. As the eye functions… — Arshile Gorky Copy Share Image
“In an age when the difference between prince and peasant was thought to be in the stars, Mr Tzara, art was naturally… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“The person who waits upon moods in impoverished. If the painter only wanted to paint when in the mood for it, he… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
At times there seems to be a million ideas worth painting. However, there are days when it's a challenge to pull any… — James Dean Copy Share Image
Being an artist doesn't just mean you have a song. That doesn't make you an artist. The word 'artist' means so many… — Billie Eilish Copy Share Image
Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
