As an artist, it's a great opportunity to play a character like this [Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in The Last King of… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
I think it was important for me to introduce myself as an artist for the first time because I'm very proud of… — Jamie Lynn Spears Copy Share Image
To make a record requires a strategy; it's not just throwing somebody in the studio and seeing how it goes. Some artists… — Tom Corson Copy Share Image
The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
And then the work bears a strong sense of leave-taking for me personally. It ends the work I began in the 1960s… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
“This assumption of the intrinsically repressive nature of collective experience and redemptive power of individuation is a staple of contemporary art theory… — Grant H. Kester Copy Share Image
One of life's intriguing paradoxes is that hierarchical social order makes cheap rents and outré artists' colonies possible. Raffish bohemian neighborhoods flourished… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Each family prayer, each episode of family scripture study, and each family home evening is a brushstroke on the canvas of our… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
What every artist should try to prevent is the car, in which is our civilized life, plunging over the side of the… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a painter and an artist. And it's interesting that in some of my later musical works, I refer… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
You don't have to have a great art idea - just get to work and something will happen. So that's pretty much… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
Is the artist impelled by spiritual forces, by the divine afflatus, by conscious or unconscious emulation of others? Do angles whisper in… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
My dad's side of the family had lots of artists and musicians. There's an emotional, quite sentimental quality to Slavic culture. It's… — Nick Clegg Copy Share Image
The idea of an isolated American painting , so popular in this country during the thirties, seems absurd to me, just as… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
You could be Top 5 on iTunes, but for people to buy an album, they've got to have a connection with an… — Meek Mill Copy Share Image
Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live; science, everything that sharpens the desire to know. Art, even the most disinterested,… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
I have this ridiculous idea that art should just be for everyone, and everyone should get to enjoy art and it shouldn't… — Zoe Buckman Copy Share Image
The thing about hip-hop is they always want to classify you as one particular artist, but hip-hop is about going outside the… — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
A work of art in paint should be beautiful and expressive as abstract colour and form and should not interest us necessarily… — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas. They would mar its… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I feel very strongly that if you got rid of all of the autistic genetics you're not going to have any scientists.… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Don't help me or serve me, but let me see it once, because I need it. Don't work for my happiness, my… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In most cases I start off with a sketch. But I'm also thinking about real images: out of National Geographic, out of… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
Inviting artists to do something, you want it to be a place where they're going to feel challenged and excited and that… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
I am an artist, you understand? For me, a picture is like poetry. When you make art, this is not coming from… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
Everything I do through my art is a way to get my thumb on top of what's happened to me in the… — Ethel Cain Copy Share Image
“SOME PAINTINGS become famous because, being durable, they are viewed by successive generations, in each of which are likely to be found… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
When I go to an opera performance and sit there while people are cheering and shouting "bravo," I sometimes ask myself what… — Thomas Quasthoff Copy Share Image
The pleasure of making things beautiful or useful involves your feelings as well as your thinking. When your original sketch evolves into… — Eva Zeisel Copy Share Image
Patti [ Scialfa] was an artist and a musician and she was a songwriter. And she was a lot like me in… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw.… — David Coverdale Copy Share Image
The chasm between the beauty and seriousness of the work, and what it has become, has overwhelmed me. The commercialization has reduced… — Christopher Tolkien Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself as a great painter; I just feel that art is about expressing your emotions and expressing your feelings,… — Victoria Azarenka Copy Share Image
“There is not one single invention of (Nature's), however subtle or impressive it may be thought to be, that the human spirit… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
The beautiful thing about art is that there's always somewhere to go. There's always something new to explore and, as an artist,… — Mena Massoud Copy Share Image
“Inspiration,' the false artist says, 'it just comes to me.' And it shows. His pictures are as like as the four walls… — Kurt Schwitters Copy Share Image
The way I understand composition and form and my ability to enter into material all comes from my disciplines and my commitment… — Carolee Schneemann Copy Share Image
Our work should be a reflection of society, and if you're not concerned with including all of society, then I don't really… — Sasheer Zamata Copy Share Image
Carving is a source of joy to the artist. . . . To attack the raw material, gradually to extract a shape… — Aristide Maillol Copy Share Image
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