I find it really cool when people have this artist persona they can put on. They can go out and act like… — Tove Lo Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say the purpose of making art is to enjoy it necessarily. For me, it happens to be the thing I… — Sean Lennon Copy Share Image
“If I were to draw, I would apply myself only to studying the form of inanimate objects," I said somewhat imperiously, because… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I took a number of graphic courses, lithography and etching and wood engraving [at Art Institute]. And particularly as I got more… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
No one who looks at my paintings can see whether a painting is upside down or not anymore. I've made or developed… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my… — Mary Cassatt Copy Share Image
Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Everything I wanted before, I want twice as much now. And that doesn't mean material things; it means to explore more, to… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
Pipilotti Rist is a Swiss video artist I learned about pretty early on. She's one of the first contemporary artists I knew… — Martine Syms Copy Share Image
You have to distinguish between things that seemed odd when they were new but are now quite familiar, such as Ibsen and… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I am convinced that each work of art, be it a great work of genius or something very small, has its own… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
It's not that you don't make any money doing conscious rap music. You make a lot of money doing this, but if… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to talk about the artist looking for his subject. In fact, the subject grows within him like a… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
When I see brokenness, poverty and crime in inner cities, I also see the enormous potential and readiness for transformation and rebirth.… — Lily Yeh Copy Share Image
I love a lot of the young, new artists who are coming up, including Adele. I suppose anybody would freak out to… — Dave Koz Copy Share Image
We don't really want to think that the artist is only very skilled, that he has merely devoted his life to perfecting… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I don't want to give people the wrong advice to follow their dreams no matter what, because it's not fun to be… — Marjorie Liu Copy Share Image
I have had this longstanding interest in going back to school to get a Ph.D. in art history. I was especially interested… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
“One and whole, together, the loss and repair belonging to each other," Picasso said. "Over time, all paintings are damaged one way… — M.J. Rose Copy Share Image
... painting a picture is like fighting a battle; and trying to paint a picture is, I suppose, like trying to fight… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
It's nice that people can call me an artist and it's nice that I can refer to myself as such, but it… — Matana Roberts Copy Share Image
My idea of a perfect surrealist painting is one in which every detail is perfectly realistic, yet filled with a surrealistic, dreamlike… — Ian Hornak Copy Share Image
Artists have wild desires and a terrible hunger to achieve... Without it they haven't the juice for striving or loving. But desire… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
Artists who are relevant today won't be tomorrow unless someone does the right thing by their character and preserves it in the… — Usher Copy Share Image
Not only was he not mad, but he was a musician, and my favorite men had always been musicians or writers or… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
As an artist, I'm really inspired by everything around me - from travel and art, to friends and family, social voices in… — Cara Santana Copy Share Image
“Art is not a plaything, but a necessity, and its essence, form, is not a decorative adjustment, but a cup into which… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
It is the artists of the world, the feelers and the thinkers who will ultimately save us; who can articulate, educate, defy,… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
It's a really cool time for artists who want to strive for a little more depth in what they want to say… — Kimbra Copy Share Image
While she was working on Maturity, ... M. Rodin is well aware that people have imagined that he did my sculpture why… — Paul Claudel Copy Share Image
I'm lucky enough to get really interesting and diverse roles offered to me, and I just hope that that continues. I just… — Amy Adams Copy Share Image
Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
There are many ways of writing badly about painting... There is an 'appreciative' language of threadbare, not inaccurate, but overexposed and irritating… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
It is often said that the modern exhibition has ruined painting. It is an unfortunate fact that it does encourage competition, so… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist who's making something which isn't how… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
In putting everyone else down, I am raising myself up... and this will continue until my self-esteem rises. I have just sorted… — Jim Rowe Copy Share Image
“And yes—scholars might care about the innovative brushwork and use of light, the historical influence and the unique significance in Dutch art.… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
When I went to Stan Lee - every time I was with Stan, I learned something every day. When I would do… — John Romita, Sr Copy Share Image
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