You just gotta record stuff and move on and make new material. Painters don't wait until they're in some specific gallery before… — Ari Shaffir Copy Share Image
When a lot of people think about how to be business-savvy as an artist, they think about how to brand themselves. At… — Soccer Mommy Copy Share Image
“Certainly the anonymous scarecrow portrait was intended to put him in his place, in much the same way as the philosopher David… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“I am no sort of art expert. I have only been to the Whitney once before, on a previous business visit that… — Michael Perry Copy Share Image
Paint is something that I use with my hands and do all those tactile things. I really don't like oil because you… — Cy Twombly Copy Share Image
The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art. Eliot said that art is the escape from personality,… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush - that’s when it starts. The public… — Banksy Copy Share Image
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. All intellectual and artistic ambitions are… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I have to be my own artist. I need the world to know who I am, especially for music. When it comes… — Mitchel Musso Copy Share Image
The teacher showed us how to see proportions, relationships, light and shadow, negative space, and space between space - something I never… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
I worked selling tickets for Dodger Stadium; I delivered pizza; I did every job under the sun. It's the part that sucks… — Jeremy Luke Copy Share Image
At the museum a troubled woman destroys a sand painting meticulously created over days by Tibetan monks. The monks are not disturbed.… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
“Objectionable, tedious, irritating labour, - this is the condition of genius, which no doubt explains the reason why men so rarely achieve… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
I definitely believe that the power of the artist is in the artist's hands now. We're kind of in the wild, wild… — Rhymefest Copy Share Image
For example, in one of my last exhibitions I had a 50-foot massive painting with I think perhaps a hundred thousand hand-painted… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I think that music is stale because of it. I think that we have the same artists from day to day. It's… — Willa Ford Copy Share Image
I think the entrepreneurial activities that make art visible and attractive are what lure people into the amusement park that SoHo has… — Sharon Zukin Copy Share Image
You cannot just be working in a vast, air-conditioned loft space and think you are going to make a decent painting. Francis… — Peter Doig Copy Share Image
There is actually no such thing as an Artist type. 'Artist' is just an economic designation, a box you tick on a… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
I have different hats; I'm a mother, I'm a woman, I'm a human being, I'm an artist and hopefully I'm an advocate.… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
I'd never painted anything before. I was quite content to take other people's work since I didn't care anyway about the subject… — Tom Wesselmann Copy Share Image
“To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I have never found a book that stressed the importance of myself as a caretaker of my ability, of staying healthy mentally… — Andrew Loomis Copy Share Image
People say, 'Why don't you just paint with paintbrushes?' I say that I feel more connected to my painting using my skin.… — Meredith Ostrom Copy Share Image
Regarding pushing the form, ideas interest me more than form. I think you can write a very subversive play in a three-act… — Caridad Svich Copy Share Image
“I'd see him do things that didn't fit with his face or hands, things like painting a picture at OT with real… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
“I have my own little sense of style. As far as image goes today for a new artist, you'll find that fashion… — Miranda Lambert Copy Share Image
There are many kinds of richness, and the man who is rich because of money is the lowest as far as the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I start drawing, and eventually the characters involve themselves in a situation. Then in the end, I go back and try to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One thing that's important to point out is that this kind of populism has a long and mixed history. It's part of… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
One of the weirdest things that happened to artists and art criticism was this moment when everyone got cynical and stopped believing… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
As Mayor, I will fully support my Arts Commission and its professional selection committees so that they can commission a full range… — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
I went back to my mother's house recently and I saw some of my earlier works as a 15-year-old art student. And… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I am just doing photo shoots. It's not something that extraordinary. I'm not a great artist, I'm not writing books, I'm not… — Carine Roitfeld Copy Share Image
I decided that the whole idea of what it means to be an artist was that somehow you are ontologically oriented toward… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
“But I tell you, nothing is pointless, and nothing is meaningless if the artist will face it. And it’s his business to… — Katherine Ann Porter Copy Share Image
I've been touring for so long, I've kind of honed into exactly what I am, I'm an artist so if you like… — Paul McDonald Copy Share Image
Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. They've… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
I think the most important thing is you need to have a very, very clear idea of who you are as an… — Chloe Kohanski Copy Share Image
![“For example, in one of my last exhibitions I had a 50-foot massive painting with I think perhaps a hundred thousand hand-painted small flowers. This was the Christ painting [The Dead Christ in the Tomb, 2008] in my Down exhibition [2008]. Now, I simply can't spend eight hours a day painting small…” quote by Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/f48/kehinde-wiley-1194_christ_for-example-in-one-of-my-last-exhibition_923224.jpg)
