Because the one who by excellency of nature transcends all quantity and size and magnitude...has now...contracted himself into a quantity and size… — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
The word compositon moved me spiritually and I made it my aim in life to paint a composition. It affected me like… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
The whole Renaissance tradition is antipethic to me. The hard-and-fast rules of perspective which it succeeded in imposing on art were a… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
Velázquez, past the age of fifty, no longer painted specific objects. He drifted around things like the air, like twilight, catching unawares… — Elie Faure Copy Share Image
I know I can only do as much as I can do... Although I have so many ideas of my own, I'm… — Tyler Perry Copy Share Image
I think circumstance plays a big part in terms of what I do. For example, if I wasn't ever able to show… — David Shrigley Copy Share Image
Warhol came from an ordinary family and he had a profound understanding about capitalism and material culture. He was probably one of… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
The thing is, when you paint somebody in all of their colors, they're never all bad or all good. Even the worst… — Terence Winter Copy Share Image
In my experience, people looking for progress aren't actually looking to move things forward. They're looking to be perceived in a certain… — James Murphy Copy Share Image
The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
I was inherently slightly more bitter or cynical and that kept me from going to the commercial formulaic crowd. Also, I went… — Abhay Deol Copy Share Image
Every painter must traverse for himself that distance from Paris to Aix (where Paul Cézanne worked a lot, fh) or from Venice… — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
I would have artists be convinced that the supreme skill and art in painting consists in knowing how to use black and… — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
“The painted picture was a bit rough, which was probably done on purpose, yet seemed eerily real as if there actually was… — Akutra-Ramses Atenosis Cea Copy Share Image
I believe in spiritualism. It's like, when you listen to music or something and then you're sort of primed. If you're an… — Daniel Johnston Copy Share Image
Art used to make me see the world differently, think about things in a new way - it rarely does that for… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
What's the impulse behind art? It's saying in whatever language is the language of your work, “If I could move you as… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
I'm not so interested in the effort that it takes to have a self-promotional outlook. I believe in being quiet and making… — Philip Taaffe Copy Share Image
My makeup artist on 'Top Gun' used the Chanel Vitalumiere Aqua foundation. It's this incredible foundation that just evens out your skin… — Monica Barbaro Copy Share Image
This is the way life goes in Big Sur. Waiting for the mail, watching the sea-lions in the surf or the freighters… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
I have read that the ancients, when they had produced a sound, used to modulate it, heightening and lowering its pitch without… — Antonio Canova Copy Share Image
In mathematical science, more than in all others, it happens that truths which are at one period the most abstract, and apparently… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Begin with art, because art tries to take us outside ourselves. It is a matter of trying to create an atmosphere and… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
But in the old days, visual artists used to fall into two distinct categories: those of us who created images with cameras… — Buffy Sainte-Marie Copy Share Image
I think that at its best, painting can be an act of juggling perceptions, a hall of mirrors. And it can be… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Elephant and Piggie could just Google themselves! With the Elephant & Piggie Like Reading! series, we're picking artists who have a voice… — Mo Willems Copy Share Image
It's not true that voting doesn't make a difference. To check out is political suicide. This is especially true for our young… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
Artists are the seeds, brave enough to live and flower before humanity. Our soil is contemplation, our water, its understanding. Whether my… — Rasun Copy Share Image
Every time we do anything artistic, the way it's perceived is always going to be different from the way that we had… — Simon Helberg Copy Share Image
Ledger art represents a spirit which has lasted through the hardships and turmoil. It is my goal and ambition that this style… — Michael Horse Copy Share Image
True artists pursue greatness in craft in order to give the Lord the best fruit of the talent He has given them,… — Charlie Peacock Copy Share Image
At that point it certainly would be called abstract. That is to say, you had a model and there'd be one or… — Lee Krasner Copy Share Image
I'm attracted to the work of younger artists, and it's affordable compared to mature art, so you can take a chance much… — Laurence Graff Copy Share Image
André Bazin wrote that art emerged from our desire to counter the passage of time and the inevitable decay it brings. But… — Manohla Dargis Copy Share Image
Here the artist is, as it were, an archaeologist, uncovering deeper and deeper strata as he works, recovering not an ancient civilization,… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
Never lose yourself on the stage. Always act in your own person, as an artist. The moment you lose yourself on the… — Constantin Stanislavski Copy Share Image
For me, it's important to experience aesthetic shock, which sets in motion our imagination, our emotions, our feelings, and our thoughts. That's… — Pierre Soulages Copy Share Image
All my work begins with drawings. I don’t labor over my drawings. I want to get freedom in the line. I like… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
Our souls as well as our bodies are composed of individual elements which were all already present in the ranks of our… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
