I've always really liked the idea of an artist name, like a cover-up, even though in my music I'm being very personal… — MO Copy Share Image
This has been my struggle for years - the pull between wanting to be in the spotlight and yet also to make… — Kelly Carlin-McCall Copy Share Image
I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn's work. That is, I love his paintings for what they are… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I've definitely become more commercially successful. I think everything has changed over the past two years. People seem to take me seriously… — Charli XCX Copy Share Image
“The vision is rather of the artist, as physical and embodied, set in the midst of a God-given world vibrant with a… — Jeremy Begbie Copy Share Image
Sometimes I will portray the more normal-looking people as the monsters and then the more distorted - "uniquely formed" is the word… — Chris Mars Copy Share Image
Painting has this ability to send the viewer [backward], but it's also this physical object in the room with you. It's always… — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
Hollywood used to be run by artists and people who loved artists... people who wanted to make movies for all the right… — Matthew Lillard Copy Share Image
“So you have to be humble in dealing with the spaces and make sure they are used according to their unique purpose… — Prestel Publishing Copy Share Image
I agree that Ruskin has done much harm to counter balance much good in giving people the trick of talking about Art… — William H. Hunt Copy Share Image
The conceptual and politically-driven art so popular and considered to be the forefront of contemporary art today is limited by its topicality… — Scott Kahn Copy Share Image
It may be that just as tonality recurs in music and realism in painting, so the idea of liberalism recurs in politics-though… — Eva Hoffman Copy Share Image
Look at the earth crowded with growth, new and old bursting from their strong roots hidden in the silent, live ground, each… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
If you loved everything you were writing, you would be deluding yourself or a complete and absolute narcissist. It's not about liking… — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
We, as artists, we have the right to express ourselves. That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe… — Ja Rule Copy Share Image
“Life is not always deep, mostly it's just random. But it’s different in art. In art you can choose to show some… — Oren Lavie Copy Share Image
There's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between record labels, publishing companies and artists [about the compensation they get from streaming services]… — Sean Parker Copy Share Image
The 'Vampire of Ropraz' claims to be based on a true story, but the name of Rosa's father matches that of a… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
Everyone who works with love and with intelligence finds in the very sincerity of his love for nature and art a kind… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
The notion of art as the dearly purchased outcome of an immense spiritual risk, one whose cost goes up with the entry… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I think that's always the hope - I mean, I can't speak for others, but I think other artists, no matter what… — Beth Hart Copy Share Image
Presumably, as a Martial artist, I do not fight for gain or loss, am not concerned with strength or weakness, and neither… — Takuan Soho Copy Share Image
I wanted to start doing more music, doing more things than just playing guitar. I started taking singing lessons and piano lessons.… — Mike McCready Copy Share Image
“How may paintings have preserved the image of a divine beauty which in its natural manifestation has been rapidly overtaken by time… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The artist must scorn all judgment that is not based on an intelligent observation of character. He must beware of the literary… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
I think you can see the evolution of me as an artist, and just becoming confident and coming into my own and… — Kevin McCall Copy Share Image
It's sort of like my past is an unfinished painting, and as the artist of that painting, I must fill in all… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
Every artist wants an audience, and it's incredible to me how books take on a life of their own and reach people… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Whether it's a pebble in a riverbed or a soaring mountain peak, I see everything in the world as the handiwork of… — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
It is a beautiful truth that all men contain something of the artist in them. And perhaps it is the case that… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
My mom devotes so much of her time toward me. She's an artist, and my father is a doctor. I've been brought… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
What I'm nostalgic for is the idea of an edge in New York. There used to be these fringes of the city… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
“I suppose that was an example of close attention to detail that is common to writers and artists. It is imperative, whether… — Elizabeth Winder Copy Share Image
“Michelangelo, who had already spent much time studying Roman architecture in the ruins, proposed a revolutionary “flying bow bridge” scaffold. It was… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
There's always a joy in newness as a painter, and in sub-Saharan Africa, I encountered different realities with regard to light and… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
The highest point at which human life and art meet is in the ordinary. To look down on the ordinary is to… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
I think his portraits of Jackie, Liz, Marilyn, Mao, Elvis, Lenin - and objects like the soup cans, the dollar signs, the… — Bob Colacello Copy Share Image
The way I make drawings is just with a desktop Epson C88 printer and they are designed to break, they are really… — Wade Guyton Copy Share Image
“It is a matter of artistic instinct. In his own thoughts and feelings and way of doing things an actor is worth… — Maurice Chevalier Copy Share Image
I'm against government giving money to artists, but I'm not against artists taking money. Just like I don't have a moral problem… — Chester Brown Copy Share Image
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