“This is a familiar syndrome. There is a stage with every drawing or painting when it looks banal and clumsy. It's worth… — Antony Sher Copy Share Image
In order to correctly define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as… — Jackie DeShannon Copy Share Image
Sometimes images may emerge from some chord in my subconscious, the way a dream might. Even in those paintings where an image… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
“The world of Rnoir is a single entity. The red of the poppy determines the pose of the young woman with the… — Jean Renoir Copy Share Image
What I love most in life happens to be the very thing that I do day-to-day, as my work. What would be… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
As an artist, I am interested in telling stories that haven't been told before, stories that are going to affect people, and… — Naomie Harris Copy Share Image
Every artist of importance creates his own world, with its own laws - creates and shapes it in his own shape and… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
The muscularity in my paintings is only an expression of the spirit within. When I paint Nephi, I'm painting the interior, the… — Arnold Friberg Copy Share Image
Art can be a medium for people to discover universal spirit, with imagery not isolated to one particular wisdom path, but pointing… — Alex Grey Copy Share Image
“But it was from him - with his cool, long sideburns and aviator sunglasses, and box of watercolor paints (and artist's paycheck)… — Gabrielle Hamilton Copy Share Image
I remember I heard it in an interview with Michael Jackson one day, saying the art is gone, everybody makes records just… — Raekwon Copy Share Image
When a young artist asked me for advice on drawing the human foot, I told him, ‘The first thing you must learn… — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
Is graffiti art or vandalism? That word has a lot of negative connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don't like… — Banksy Copy Share Image
Both of my parents were incredibly supportive of me being in any arts, because they were both in the arts. They weren't… — Aya Cash Copy Share Image
A work of art can be called revolutionary if, by virtue of the aesthetic transformation, it represents, in the exemplary fate of… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
“A person's life purpose is nothing more than to rediscover, through the detours of art or love or passionate work, those one… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Even I have certain depictions that I personally don't like, but I don't believe artists should necessarily follow a particular person's preference.… — Yoko Taro Copy Share Image
Even if the painting is green, well then! The 'subject' is the green. There is always a subject; it's a joke to… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“Leonardo received an adequate education, learning basic Latin, mathematics, and geography. He was never a stellar student, instead finding his attentions on… — Hourly History Copy Share Image
My paintings always feature trails that dissolve into mysterious areas, patches of light that lead the eye around corners, pathways, open gates,… — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
People who are artists professionally are not artists because they want to be artists; they have to be artists. They're compelled to… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
Now I'm a symbol of what to be and how hard to work. I have heads of major labels say, "I wish… — Kenny Chesney Copy Share Image
I've got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists. Neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
I met Andy Warhol in the '60s, a wonderful time, with wonderful people. There was Fred Hughes, and Jed Johnson, who I… — Pierre Berge Copy Share Image
It’s like saying beauty is in the eye of the beholder: what appears to be beautiful today may not be judged beautiful… — Peter M. Brant Copy Share Image
For the first project I did in North America, I was asked as an artist, not as an architect, to collaborate on… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
Even as a teenager we got interested in the Beats, Dada, and Surrealism, and so on. What drew us to those was… — Genesis P-Orridge Copy Share Image
I feel like you can't really be truthful as an artist and empathize with the human experience unless you know your truth,… — Diane Guerrero Copy Share Image
To be an artist is not about fame; it's about art, which is this intangible thing that has got to have lots… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
There's not too many artist that can handle what we would call an Christian R&B sound. It's kind of a limited field… — LeCrae Copy Share Image
For just being a black artist in rock n' roll and be able to step outside and create, and make great music.… — Future Copy Share Image
Our label is very digital-friendly. We try to provide some free stuff to get interest in the band, but we have to… — Al Jourgensen Copy Share Image
It's very interesting being an artist and a comedian, (because) you aim for jobs that will feed your ego, but when you… — Chris Gethard Copy Share Image
“Here's a mystery for you. Renegade urban graffiti artist Banksy is clearly a guffhead of massive proportions, yet he's often feted as… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
Despite all the taxes people pay, there supposedly isn't any money in this country for art. Of course, this makes an artist… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
You see so many artists who are so talented end up living sad, empty lives. This industry takes so much out of… — Stacie Orrico Copy Share Image
Making a painting is like having sex for a month or something. Then I go through this period of elation at finishing… — Tim Zuck Copy Share Image
“I continued, “The painting shows this fish with a big eye and a halo, floating in air, and underneath the fish are… — Nelson DeMille Copy Share Image
