In truth, the best long-term explanations about our ancient counterparts can be found in the paintings, sculpture, crafts, tools of utility, language… — Edward J. Fraughton Copy Share Image
That's one of the things I haven't had time for in my personal life, is art, and I probably should make more… — Michael Graziadei Copy Share Image
Film is definitely a director's medium. They're responsible for the look and everything, and you're a part of that process as an… — Owen Wilson Copy Share Image
Many of us knuckle-dragging brush-painters think that 'behind the times' is part of our job description. Why deny ourselves the authentic journey… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
People go into a gallery, and they're afraid to express their opinions about art. No one's afraid to say, 'Keanu Reeves was… — William Quigley Copy Share Image
I was walking down a street and after his death and saw a billboard on the side of a brick wall for… — Tom Folsom Copy Share Image
Art demands persistent work, work in spite of everything, and continuous observations. By persistent, I mean not only continuous work, but also… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“You adapt yourself, Paul Klee said, to the contents of the paintbox. Adapting yourself to the contents of the paintbox, he said,… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I'm a producer. I'm a musician. And my job is to come in and, you know, put - you know, I treat… — Pharrell Williams Copy Share Image
“Changes in societal structure and in art would possess more creditbility if they had their origins in the soul & spirit. If… — Ingo Walther Copy Share Image
“Right from the beginning, I was convinced that Avenir is the better Futura,” said a confident Adrian Frutiger in a recent interview… — Stephen Coles Copy Share Image
But if you have a point of view and you're an artist or a writer, it's kind of crazy to not take… — David Lloyd Copy Share Image
Attention is what creates value. Artworks are made as well by how people interact with them - and therefore by what quality… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
“Consider carefully the merest event: in the best of cases, the positive and negative elements that participate in it balance out; generally… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take… — John B. Watson Copy Share Image
If you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
“Take the beautifully wild pieces of your life and shape them into the manicured works of art you want your life to… — Jaha Knight Copy Share Image
Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot physically see with his eyes... Abstract art enables the artist to… — Arshile Gorky Copy Share Image
The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills… — Georges Rouault Copy Share Image
You know, I'm incredibly blessed to be able to have this level of choice as an artist today. In this economy, it's… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
When I grab the microphone, I am the greatest rapper, musician, and artist that ever lived, ever, in the entire universe -… — Logic Copy Share Image
“The fable of the Emperor’s New Clothes is brought up time and again, a conspiracy to dupe someone, a pretense designed to… — Dan Fox Copy Share Image
I start out making my paintings for me. I don't see it as a form of communication. Until, of course, after they… — John Lurie Copy Share Image
You cannot hide any secret. If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are selections so acute that they come to define a place, with the result that we can no longer travel through… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
When the artist activates his being, awakens to his surroundings, and sets himself the task of creating, connections are made out of… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
What do artists do? Artists give people something they didn't know they were missing: a dance, a piece of music, a painting,… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
Calligraphy may well be simply an artistic version of another form, that is the ideograms which make up the poem, but then… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Before I start painting I have a slightly ambiguous feeling: happiness is a special excitement because unhappiness is always possible a moment… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I think there's an interest right now in the performance aspect of artworks, instead of just hanging things on walls. We're in… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
One of the pleasures of art is that it enables the mind to move in unanticipated directions, to make connections that may… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
“It is not merely the feeling that something is familiar. It is one step beyond that. It is something new, challenging, or… — Derek Thompson Copy Share Image
I'm 47 years old. I couldn't compete with Beyonce. I'm not competing with anyone. I've already established myself as an artist. I've… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
“All art involves conscious discipline. If one is going to paint, do sculpture, design a building or write a book, it will… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry - architecture being the least banal derivative of the latter.” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Lots of ambitious work by young artists ends up in a dumpster after its warehouse debut. So an unknown artist's big glass… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything. Songs… — Elton John Copy Share Image
Interpretation, based on the highly dubious theory that a work of art is composed of items of content, violates art. It makes… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I am myself a professional creator of images, a film-maker. And then there are the images made by the artists I collect,… — Thomas Koerfer Copy Share Image
