I first came across Dada at art school in the early 80s. It was funnier and more anarchic than anything else I… — Vic Reeves Copy Share Image
I can't make things I don't feel passionately about. I've never been able to. Years ago when I was going through college,… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
“In these times there is a powerful demarcation between the surface and the deep currents of human development. Events and upheavals, which… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
In 1951 I took my first art course. And one day I looked over my shoulder and there was this tall gentleman… — David C. Driskell Copy Share Image
Art saved my life in two ways. It made me feel special, because I could do things my friends couldn't, but it… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
“I notice I may have somehow mixed up two events, my visit with Rita to Briceland on our way to Cantrip, and… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Works were expected to be microscopically accurate, properly ‘finished’ and formally framed, with proper perspective and all the familiar artistic conventions,” — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I think of art as a glue, a cultural and social glue. It's one of the means that has served to show… — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image
Those who are to follow the arts should have a training in what is called poverty. Given a comfortable middle-class start in… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
Most people on the outside think that being an artist is like the best thing ever in the world and it's so… — Bea Miller Copy Share Image
The great tragedy is that they're removing art completely, not because they're putting more science in, but because they can't afford the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
Music being “good or bad” is a flawed idea. Artists make what they want to make and we either connect with it… — Jacob Bannon Copy Share Image
“The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who'll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration.… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
“The most visible creators are those artists whose medium is life itself. The ones who express the inexpressible ~ without brush, hammer,… — Donna J. Stone Copy Share Image
In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
With most people, not describable as artists, all the finer part of their vitality goes into sex. They become third-rate poets during… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
In the end, we're just showmen. But, I think that it's an important factor. Not to be anything else but clear about… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
Tolstoy's definition of art is the inverse of the truth; the task of art is to transform not perception into feeling, but… — Raphael Soyer Copy Share Image
To give generously but appropriately and then, most difficult of all, and as the full apotheosis of the art, with feeling, in… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
Every artist has to remember that they're human beings first, even with the type of stardom placed around their name and aura,… — Liz Mitchell Copy Share Image
I feel that if I had not had an art program in my school, I would have failed in a big way.… — David Small Copy Share Image
“Japanese things - laquers, netsuke, prints - conjure a picture of a place where sensations are always new, where art pours out… — Edmund de Waal Copy Share Image
Stories always have held conflicts and contrasts, highs and lows, life and death situations. And there can be much suffering in stories,… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself, carry you away. It is the means by which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I usually go to bed early to read. I read and I always say that I'm not a "bohemian artist;" I need… — Michal Rovner Copy Share Image
The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not… — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
I love being a pavement artist; seriously, I do. It's like when guys who would normally hate being freakishly tall discover basketball,… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain… — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
I was once in a very, very bad car accident. So my drawing arm is full of pins and platinum stuff. Occasionally… — Bernard Tschumi Copy Share Image
I want to bring Americans into some experiences they ordinarily would not consider. Experiences in Latin America, people in Latin America, I… — Hector Tobar Copy Share Image
“The transposition of two Letters by five placeings will be sufficient for 32 Differences [and] by this Art a way is opened,… — George B. Dyson Copy Share Image
If you never, or rarely, see your experience depicted in art or pop culture then you can begin to feel isolated or… — Mae Martin Copy Share Image
The artist is always searching for the meaning of life, his own and that of mankind, searching for truth. A system of… — Bohuslav Martinu Copy Share Image
How could we possibly appreciate the Mona Lisa if Leonardo had written at the bottom of the canvas: 'The lady is smiling… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
“The mysterious quality of artworks is a signal of the mysterious quality of objects in general. Beauty is a secret that we… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
I trained as an artist originally, so I know what a nice human body looks like, and I would like to look… — Richard Griffiths Copy Share Image
“One real difference between art and craft: with craft, perfection is possible. In that sense the Western definition of craft closely matches… — David Bayles and Ted Orland Copy Share Image
I want to invest and have my own record label and artists. I want to have a business where my kids, kids,… — Chingy Copy Share Image
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