“And still, still, there is more to describe- we paint because drawing breath is an agony and exhaling an ecstasy and somewhere… — Marie Anzalone Copy Share Image
My feeling about technique in art is that it has about the same value as technique in lovemaking. Heartfelt ineptitude has its… — John Barth Copy Share Image
Every artist's world is an individual experience and no one thing can prepare you. You have to go in and go where… — Kalup Linzy Copy Share Image
Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
When you choose your profession, you also choose your own downfall or success. If one chooses to become an artist it is… — Odd Nerdrum Copy Share Image
As an artist I would like to eliminate the symbolic pretty much, for black is interesting not as a color but as… — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
From the very beginning, art meant something very important to the people who made it. It was a correspondence of the emotions… — Milton Resnick Copy Share Image
Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I was...attacked for being a pasticheur, chided for composing "simple" music, blamed for deserting "modernism," accused of renouncing my "true Russian heritage."… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can't think of another artist who has a fan base as diverse, in that the ladies in their 70s at the… — John Carter Cash Copy Share Image
I used to cold call labels and pretend I was one of their artist's attorneys. I'd say, 'This is Jay-Z's attorney, we… — Benny Blanco Copy Share Image
Art is precisely that condition which pertains when, after all analysis and reduction to parts has taken place, there remains a 'quality'… — Douglas Portway Copy Share Image
The artist is engaged constantly in building anti-environments. (And, by the way, the Courtly Love people were engaged in making love itself… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
You can't control life. It doesn't wind up perfectly. Only-only art you can control. Art and masturbation. Two areas in which I… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Artists were always referred to as great artists. I thought that's what the profession was. One word: great-artist. There wasn't one moment… — Hedda Sterne Copy Share Image
Leonardo's Mona Lisa sure would have lost out if he had spent only 2 of the 4 or 5 years he took… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
I've been an artist forever. I started when I was in the third grade. I drew drawings of monsters and I sold… — Tony Tasset Copy Share Image
“The object [Duchamp's Fountain] was rejected , giving Duchamp the opportunity of issuing a statement, which he published in a review, The… — Neville Weston Copy Share Image
“The real reason that students and increasingly teachers of art history are ready to jettison the past, however, is that the refusal… — Christopher S. Wood Copy Share Image
But there's no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We're not supposed to be embraced… — Banksy Copy Share Image
Every true artist has been inspired more by the beauty of lines and color and the relationships between them than by the… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
For my career, I want to be able to do projects that have serious context to them or that make me grow… — Ashton Sanders Copy Share Image
Painting has always been a means of self-expression for me. Therefore, I paint because I have to and need to, not necessarily… — Lori Earley Copy Share Image
I guess weve got this grand tradition of sort of English eccentrics. Over there youve got artists like Lady Gaga youve got… — Florence And The Machine Copy Share Image
Express yourself through your art - whether it’s your drawings in a sketchpad, tattoos on your skin, the shade of your lipstick,… — Kat Von D Copy Share Image
“It is unfeeling to speak of the people who cooperate in the production of art works as "personnel" or, worse yet, "support… — Howard Becker Copy Share Image
“Great British painters, one might say, imitate the proverbial behaviour of buses. None come along for a century or more, then two… — Martin Gayford Copy Share Image
I'm a relentless sketcher. It goes back to how you process the world around you - the whole left-brain, right-brain thing. Some… — Mark Parker Copy Share Image
I was a VJ to begin with, so I had a good year of interviewing artists, but then I would spend half… — Ruby Rose Copy Share Image
When you're an artist, you can only do your own stuff. Even if you only write for other people, you're really more… — Rico Love Copy Share Image
We received our initial inspiration from our family, as from childhood we exhibited an inclination towards art. While Johns randomly drew pictures,… — Joy Mathew Copy Share Image
I've spent so much of my life examining the smallest details. In some ways, it's where I feel most at home. For… — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
Visual artists choreograph dances for the eyes, guiding visual journeys in specific ways. But when presented with little or nothing, the journeys… — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
I never noticed competing with other generations. There's competition within your own generation, but that competition is good. Maybe you're annoyed that… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
I know the world that I am painting is not a reality. It is a whim, an entertainment to provoke something in… — Tim Walker Copy Share Image
In the late 70's I started to make drawings of the ordinary objects I had been using in my work. Initially I… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
Look at your work and it tells you how it is when you hold back or when you embrace. When you are… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Art is something about the spirit... if you want to make something that has a spirit, and speaks to the spirit of… — Shary Boyle Copy Share Image
I'm lucky to have met Nicolas Ghesquiere, the creative director of Vuitton. He understands me and knows me, and I admire his… — Brigitte Macron Copy Share Image
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