When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, what distinguished the… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Not only was Tupac an iconic figure in Hip-Hop, he was an iconic artist across the whole world. He transcends to all… — Cory Hardrict Copy Share Image
Let them understand above all that the artist works from necessity; that he, too, is a minute element of the world to… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Something as radical as a war can only be understood (if at all) through the collaboration of journalists, academia, artists and, of… — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
The most important thing is to have a point of view and have something to say. That is important if you are… — Kathleen Kennedy Copy Share Image
I always try to go where the excitement is, where the best music is. I don't care what kind of music it… — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
My whole thing with EDM is, if you have integrity and yet you regress in how you've been as an artist, there's… — Goldie Copy Share Image
If you're an artist like a really, really long time, it stops being a performance. I'm not performing anymore. I reveal myself… — Eddie Murphy Copy Share Image
The understanding of the intent of the artist which I can achieve when high sometimes carries over to when I’m down. This… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Jeffrey Deitch is the Jeff Koons of art dealers. Not because he's the biggest, best, or the richest of his kind. But… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The thing about covers that's relatively important to remember is that it doesn't matter how good an artist you are: if you… — Neal Adams Copy Share Image
I would love to do musicals, sitcoms and even television talk shows. I think I have the potential. But most importantly, my… — Jamie Park Copy Share Image
Austrian public-opinion pollsters recently reported that those held in highest esteem by most of the people interviewed are neither the great artists… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People're artists they're doing something, taking a hunk of chaps, giving it some order, some form, and presenting it saying here is… — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a… — Balthus Copy Share Image
I remind myself Vincent van Gogh died without having sold a single painting. Like, art is not measured by the trappings that… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
One curator said he didn't want my work in his gallery because it was so simple even children understood it. I thought,… — Ted Harrison Copy Share Image
Talk about painting: there's no point. By conveying a thing through the medium of language, you change it. You construct qualities that… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“A person of large dreams does not allow other people’s opinion to damper his or her zestfulness. Overcoming fear of making an… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The collaboration which sometimes follows is seldom based on good will: usually on desire, rage, fear, pity or longing. The modern illusion… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Art gives us the opportunity to have clarity as well as hope that we might be able to survive a situation, or… — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
I paint with a language I can call my own... it takes a ruthless honesty with oneself. If one admires or is… — Scott Kahn Copy Share Image
I'm a professional artist, that's how I make my living. So I watch the market. There is, it seems to me, a… — Brice Marden Copy Share Image
Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects. Everything became exchangeable… — John Berger Copy Share Image
When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
'Point Omega' starts in an art gallery, where an unnamed man is watching, day after day, a 24-hour version of 'Psycho,' an… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
Being an artist isn't a genetic disposition or a specific talent. It's an attitude we can all adopt. It's a hunger to… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
... we have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
I always liked paintings to be walls rather than windows. When we see a painting on a wall, it's a window, so… — Pierre Soulages Copy Share Image
In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made different?… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create… — Michael Tippett Copy Share Image
Being a creative person, I'm naturally drawn towards art of any kind. But I'm more attracted to paintings because they radiate an… — Dimple Kapadia Copy Share Image
The thing is, people only care about their selfie. I am a fan of artists, and if I have 30 seconds with… — Martin Garrix Copy Share Image
Museums do not share their collections with other museums unless they get something in exchange. The Metropolitan will deal with the Louvre,… — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
I'd been to Stourhead and was inspired by the perfect parity between architecture and art; in fact, the architecture is the art.… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
My mom's an artist in every way. She's a painter, a photographer. She's a wanderer - always searching, always seeing. I guess… — Jason Momoa Copy Share Image
I am a sur le motif painter, always in-the-field, with a French easel that folds up into a box, with backpack straps… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
What is Mona Lisa thinking? Nothing, of course. Her blankness is her menace and our fear. [...] Walter Pater is to call… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I am the same artist with the same nagging questions I had in my early 20's. What's real and what isn't? How… — John Guare Copy Share Image
I believe in art, and more fundamentally the freedom to express one's self creatively. People don't know yet what they'll ultimately believe… — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share Image
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