Having kids is a full-time job. And I don't know any woman who isn't constantly fighting between the exquisite selfishness required to… — Liz W. Garcia Copy Share Image
When I was fifteen, I dreamed of living in the big city, as many a young person does if he is artistic… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I think that the artists who don't get involved in preaching messages probably are happier - but you see, I have to… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
The term bohemian has a bad reputation because it's allied to myriad clichés, but Parisians originally adopted the term, associated with nomadic… — Sarah Thornton Copy Share Image
If you are handed something, it's a blessing and a curse. Look at hip hop artists, they produced everything themselves. Even people… — Michael Winslow Copy Share Image
Years later, I figured out why he (Ivan Karp) was such a successful art dealer-this may sound strange, but I believe it… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
Who's to say what will one day appear to have been trendsetting? Sometimes artists who receive breathless acclaim initially, seem to conk… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
Like most artists and musicians, I considered myself detached from the political life. But I had an insight that maybe we would… — Gilberto Gil Copy Share Image
For me, drawing is a way of navigating the imagination, and it remains the fundamental vehicle of my practice. Drawing allows me… — Shahzia Sikander Copy Share Image
The artist himself is often surprised at the finished work of art. He cannot tell 'how it happened', nor could he repeat… — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
“A sculpture of the magnificent shape of God. Oh, admittedly it was a shallow rendering of That Which Cannot Be Named; but… — Laird Barron Copy Share Image
“Ambivalence and contradiction energize nearly every figure Michaelangelo carved, from the adolescent Madonna of the Stairs onward...But the four allegories atop the… — Eric Scigliano Copy Share Image
“Now while it's hanging in the gallery I pine for it. But once it's on my own wall, perhaps it will be… — Karin Fossum Copy Share Image
“I believe that art is the highest expression of the human spirit. ~ I believe that we yearn to transcend the merely… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I can't think of anything more rewarding than being able to express yourself to others through painting. Exercising the imagination, experimenting with… — Bob Ross Copy Share Image
The people love when you give them a part of you. You know what I mean? Those are the most successful artists.… — Jadakiss Copy Share Image
“The hours tick by as I lie in bed. Memories keep surfacing, tormenting me into unbelievable sadness. I can't bring myself to… — Ashley Earley Copy Share Image
The artist invites the spectator to take a journey within the realm of the canvas... Without taking the journey, the spectator has… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
Creative experimentation propels our culture forward. That our stories of innovation tend to glorify the breakthroughs and edit out all the experimental… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
I think melancholy is part of the natural condition, you know. Anyway, I think it's the artist's function to have their melancholy… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
In the early '60s, it was still a fairly subversive thing, though, to say that you should take a painting, cut it,… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
In most writers, style is a welcome, an invitation, a letting down of the drawbridge between the artist and the world. Shaw… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
There are three people's careers I'd like to meld together into my own... Jay Z's for his business mindset, Macklemore's hustle as… — CJ Fly Copy Share Image
Picasso has a volatile, explosive presence. He seems to take art back to an earlier function, before the centuries of museums and… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
The only thing that I am concerned with in life is being an artist .. I had to suppress for so many… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
Everyone uses art for different reasons: We use it as entertainment. We use it as an escape. We use it as comfort.… — Hayley Kiyoko Copy Share Image
I continue to make paintings of people and their moments in our time because I am of that time. Out of that… — Burton Silverman Copy Share Image
It's kind of not about the quality of the art, as much as this is what I love doing and I'd have… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
Are you an artist? Look about you. Is there a physical tool whose use you have mastered, a part of your body… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
And the works that endure and will endure for ever, the great masterpieces, cannot have come into being as humanity... imagines. Man… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
Throughout history, the arts and humanities have helped men and women around the globe grapple with the most challenging questions and come… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The paralysis that we have right now when we think about migration is partly because we can't imagine what the world would… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Meeting and talking to the artist adds a special element to collecting contemporary art that makes the work an irreplaceable treasure rather… — Ernest West Basden Copy Share Image
Art brings people back to their sensibility as human beings. This is the purpose of art: To bring people together and bring… — eL Seed Copy Share Image
You can trade money for other good things and that's nice, but it's not the first thing that matters to me. I'm… — Demian Maia Copy Share Image
Great works of art can be produced in barbarous societies - in fact the very narrowness of primitive society gives their ornamental… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
My concern today is with the painting of manners of the present. The past is interesting not only by reason of the… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“Every day I meet people who have so much to give but have been bullied enough or frightened enough to hold it… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning. An art school is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
So much of the hubris that surrounded conceptual art in the 1950s through '70s was that it had this arrogant presupposition that… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
