Art that means anything in the life of a community must bear some relation to current interpretations of the mystery of the… — Dora Russell Copy Share Image
I've been drawing since about age 5. In kindergarten I drew a picture of my teacher and she loved it! Made a… — Butch Hartman Copy Share Image
I wish I still had all of my old schoolwork. I'd just have all the sketches around the schoolwork, and none of… — Willie Cauley-Stein Copy Share Image
When I was a little kid back in Moscow, Russia, I've always thought I would become an artist or a folk dancer… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
I had this drive to do the martial arts. It wasn't necessarily mixed martial arts, but I always had the drive to… — Jared Cannonier Copy Share Image
I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds of sites and contexts which… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
That's something that I think the best artists retain - the ability to invite you into their small, intimate inner space, and… — Alyson Stoner Copy Share Image
And I get so nervous now when it's not my show, like I'm not the headliner, because I know that those fans… — Saweetie Copy Share Image
It keeps me in touch with younger musicians who are constantly saying, 'Have you heard this new artist, or this new guitar… — Gary Burton Copy Share Image
Our job as the game creators or developers - the programmers, artists, and whatnot - is that we have to kind of… — Shigeru Miyamoto Copy Share Image
Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas… — Banksy Copy Share Image
Most of the time when people work with an artist, they don't give them what they need for the future, they give… — Benny Blanco Copy Share Image
There have been several occasions during the course of Fleetwood Mac over the years where we've had to undermine whatever the business… — Lindsey Buckingham Copy Share Image
You want to make entertainment sometimes, and sometimes you want to make art, because I think the way we understand ourselves as… — Rosamund Pike Copy Share Image
The great artist is a formulation of the greatest intelligence: he is the recipient of sensations which are the most delicate and… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
As an artist, you tend to gravitate to the opposite. I know, when I finish a song or an album, I'm interested… — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
The artists of Asia have spiritually realized form, rather than aesthetically invented or imitated form, and from them I have learned that… — Morris Graves Copy Share Image
When you paint things exactly as they are, you don't show people anything that they couldn't see for themselves; you're telling them… — Paul Strisik Copy Share Image
While I was still going to embrace social media, I knew I had to do things that nobody else was doing. I… — Mark Edward Copy Share Image
... the image of feeling created by artists, in every kind of art -- plastic, musical, poetic, balletic -- serves to hold… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
It's funny, but many people don't understand why I draw so many games nowadays. They think my style must have changed but… — Mikhail Tal Copy Share Image
Can we expect the redemption of the world from scholars? I doubt it. But the time has come for all artists to… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
I think, for myself, as an artist, the progression is a lyrical progression and what I choose to target my lyrics at… — Gza Copy Share Image
“Through art alone are we able to emerge from ourselves, to know what another person sees of a universe which is not… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The amateur believes he must first overcome his fear; then he can do his work. The professional knows that fear can never… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Exposure to the reproductions [of Corbis-owned fine art photographs] is likely to increase rather than diminish reverence for the real art and… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I never got into being an artist. For me, it's always more research, storytelling, maybe technological experimental. It's more like a laboratory… — Hito Steyerl Copy Share Image
The melody that the loved one played upon the piano of your life will never be played quite that way again, but… — Joshua L. Liebman Copy Share Image
I believe that one of the most important properties of a work of art is an attempt to reconcile opposites, and in… — Douglas Portway Copy Share Image
Initially I explored the tension between illustration and fine art when I first encountered miniature painting in my late teens. Championing the… — Shahzia Sikander Copy Share Image
When I first started, I wrote some songs with Linda Perry. She's so instrumental in a lot of artist's lives, listening to… — Juliette Lewis Copy Share Image
I just feel like, at any moment, a drag or a trans or a gender-diverse artist that doesn't fit in a box… — Courtney Act Copy Share Image
Painting is traditional but for me that doesn't mean the academy. I felt a need to paint; I love painting. It was… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I do feel like no matter what you're doing, whether it's music or writing a play or a poem or drawing a… — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
As an artist, it's so important to create music that puts a chill through your body or does something to make you… — Raekwon Copy Share Image
Where a love of natural beauty has been cultivated, all nature becomes a stupendous gallery, as much superior in form and in… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Of course there is sometimes a price to pay. While I was busy painting, not only was my light dissipating quickly, but… — Cory Trepanier Copy Share Image
...the artist treats intuition and nuance with respect and reminds us that a little madness resides in all of us. Artists give… — Peter Block Copy Share Image
“Ndiawar is bent to an open drawer. 'Your new art therapy person,' he says to Yang. Yang looks Day in the eye.… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image