I have made a sculpture … you will never be finished with it – when you pass around it or see it… — Jørn Utzon Copy Share Image
I wanted to show the community you can build something here without having to raid taxpayers' dollars. What better way to show… — Norman Braman Copy Share Image
Picasso spent hundereds of hours carefully planning his masterpieces. The sketchbooks were filled with ideas, bits and pieces, test runs, none of… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
Too many younger artists, critics, and curators are fetishizing the sixties, transforming the period into a deformed cult, a fantasy religion, a… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
My dad's great. He's an amazing artist. A sculptor. He's wonderful and supportive. I love going to museums with him - we… — Grace Gummer Copy Share Image
Whatever you go into, you have to go in there to be the best. There's no formulas. It's all about passion and… — Hugh Masekela Copy Share Image
For a long time I wanted to draw, but I could never get the proportions right. My still life sketches were the… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
I think another thing is that we don't really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist's interest to be… — Peter Gabriel Copy Share Image
“Look at this one.” I picked up a small painting of a man with dark hair and a short, dark beard. He… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
“Something may be a sort of fulfillment of yourself, and it may not be great to other people, but it is just… — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
So rather than really have, like a close relationship to anything that's coming out today, people are just, they've got it on… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
“For indeed when painters themselves wish to represent sirens and satyrs [20] by means of especially bizarre forms, they surely cannot assign… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
“Become a great artist. That is the only way to justify what you are doing to everyone's life.'... I did not understand… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over… — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
I think there's a kind of built-in arrogance to anyone who considers themself an artist. They want to feel as though like… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
I'm being totally honest, but I really do get chills every time I see something that I designed, painted on the biggest… — James Pearse Connelly Copy Share Image
I get really self-conscious about people staring at me. It sounds so weird. As a performer, as an artist, these should be… — Sam Smith Copy Share Image
Artists don't always know. Almost every song I ever recorded that was a hit at the majors that the promotional people picked… — Roy Ayers Copy Share Image
You don't own art. What does that mean? We are trustees of art. Art is in transit with us. That is why… — Pierre Berge Copy Share Image
My father, George, has also affected the choices in my life regarding films. I like films that take chances or say something… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
The artist, surgeon, through clay form, can only look for cure with great obstinacy until he discovers, repeatedly, that love is god's… — Jabra Ibrahim Jabra Copy Share Image
A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
James Porter said to me once, when I was talking about painting, he said, well, that's fine, he said, but you have… — David C. Driskell Copy Share Image
The thing with sculpture is, 90% of the time, when I pass a piece of sculpture, it's in public or somewhere, and… — John Lurie Copy Share Image
It cannot be emphasized too strongly that art, as such, does not "pay," to use an American expression - at least, not… — Antonin Dvorak Copy Share Image
Every project might only sell like 30 to 50,000, but I mean, I'm getting seven, eight dollars every CD. I make more… — Freddie Gibbs Copy Share Image
When I joined, I was one of the first artists to sign on to the Motown West label when they opened their… — Thelma Houston Copy Share Image
I remember one time in my junior year, in my art class, our teacher had us doing, like, finger paints, and I… — CC Sabathia Copy Share Image
“In the hierarchy, the artist faces outward. Meeting someone new he asks himself, What can this person do for me? How can… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I am not so bad, actually, at doing my own makeup, so for more low-key events, I'll do my own, but for… — Devon Windsor Copy Share Image
A painting is nothing more than light reflected from the surface of a pigment-covered canvas. But a great painter can make you… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
My father, a ruined dandy from the South, had been reduced to keeping a small harness-repair shop and, when that failed, he… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I always say it takes three weeks to know a character and three months to own it. And I think that's probably… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
There have been points in my life as an artist where I have wanted to capture people's attention, probably to compensate for… — Anohni Copy Share Image
Painting dissolves the forms at its command, or tends to; it melts them into color. Drawing, on the other hand, goes about… — Alexander Eliot Copy Share Image
The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring. Paintings of Moreau are… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The paint for the grey paintings was mixed beforehand and then applied with different implements - sometimes a roller, sometimes a brush.… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Almost all great painters in old age arrive at the same kind of broad, simplified style, as if they wanted to summarise… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Maybe being an artist is a kind of detachment. You're in the cave, you're isolated, you're apart from everything and it's there… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
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