As an adult after college and as an artist I thought about what was real, what sustained me - it was Christian… — Alfre Woodard Copy Share Image
When I was in art school, there was a stigma attached to coming from comfortable suburbia. If you were from Great Neck,… — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
We all have our things that we go through, and I wanted to be an artist that people could listen to and… — Lauren Alaina Copy Share Image
Artists are in the imagining/ prototyping business. Society needs people to be out there thinking of what might be. That cannot be… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I think it is important to surround myself with artists who share the same goals and aspirations. This way, I am constantly… — Ravyn Lenae Copy Share Image
My original idea- and I still want to do it -for Pinko Records, would be to create a platform for other artists… — Jill Sobule Copy Share Image
The eye is complicated. It mixes the colors [it sees] for you ... The painter must unmix them and lay them on… — Elizabeth Borton de Trevino Copy Share Image
The first person who ever told me that happiness was work was this manic-depressive artist I knew when I was in my… — Ariel Gore Copy Share Image
I was a sandwich artist at Subway and can still rattle off the order of toppings. I was fired because I got… — Jeremy Sisto Copy Share Image
Artistry has to define the Artist so there is no other way but to create the kind of music that speaks about… — Truth Hurts Copy Share Image
“The art stream is filled with snags and has no volume so it has no support. If you finally choose art, no… — Theresa Sjoquist Copy Share Image
“Contemplating a purported work of art is a social activity. Either you have a rewarding time, or you don't. You don't have… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Every one of us is an artist, and as an artist, you really can stroll into any venue that you want, as… — Terrence Howard Copy Share Image
She has her own glamour, Willy lad. All poets do, all the bards and artists, all the musicians who truly take the… — Emma Bull Copy Share Image
When I stepped back from the gallery I was in a phase where I thought I wasn't going to be making work… — Kalup Linzy Copy Share Image
“But Italy worked some marvel in her. It gave her light, and – which he held more precious – it gave her… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
I became an animal painter because I loved to move among animals. I would study an animal and draw it in the… — Rosa Bonheur Copy Share Image
Anybody who severs their own Achilles tendon, takes blood thinners to induce a hospital stay , or beats themselves with their fists… — Janice Erlbaum Copy Share Image
“The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When you talk about painters and you talk about painters painting masterpieces, there is no painter who painted only one painting and… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
A great artist can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is ... and force the viewer to see… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I grew up really into comic books, and I actually thought I was going to be a comic-book artist. That was my… — Corey Stoll Copy Share Image
A journalist uses the most precise words he or she can. An artist does the same sort of thing. You gather material… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
Philosophers and aestheticians may offer elegant and profound definitions of art and beauty, but for the painter they are all summed up… — Gino Severini Copy Share Image
The most important thing is that the work has to be solid [in terms of its formal structure] and that the work… — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
I don't believe in rushing and saying this is done and over with. That form of rebellion doesn't make sense to me.… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
You have to write badly to write at all. If it's crappy, I will rewrite it later. But it will be mine.… — Kathy Mattea Copy Share Image
Combien de gens se font abstraits pour para?tre profonds! La plupart des termes abstraits sont des ombres qui cachent des vides. How… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Aesthetic culture is not the high-road to all the virtues, and, indeed, certain of the vices have been known to infest it.… — Lewis Foreman Day Copy Share Image
...for we are all amateurs at life, but if we do not focus too much on our mistakes, a miraculous picture emerges.… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
I feel like, for me as an artist, it takes me a while of living with the tracks and living with the… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
Once you start painting, you could of course get lost. I mean you get out of yourself, you don't know whether you're… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
The chief consideration for a good painter is to think out the whole of his picture, to have it in his head… — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Copy Share Image
“Our lives are more like a canvas on which we paint, than a script we need to learn – though the illusion… — Fiona Givens Copy Share Image
My recollections of Armenia open new visions for me. My art is therefore a growth art where forms, pines, shapes, memories of… — Arshile Gorky Copy Share Image
“Melissa popped open the clattery little Rotring tin. Pencils, putty rubber, scalpel. She sharpened a 3B, letting the curly shavings fall into… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
The work of art still has something in common with enchantment: it posits its own, self-enclosed area, which is withdrawn from the… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
I think the most important thing for an artist is to stay true to who you are. I want to stay as… — Daya Copy Share Image
I used to flirt with fundamentalism, and I had this idea that creation was something that happened. Now I see creation as… — Michael Gungor Copy Share Image
Everything about The Bradshaws is controversial, fluid, uncertain: their age - perhaps 30,000 years old, perhaps older, perhaps more recent - who… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
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