Nobody has any time to sit with art and chew on it and engage with anything in a meaningful way. This is… — Ethel Cain Copy Share Image
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Leonardo da Vinci was lucky to be born the same year that Johannes Gutenberg opened his printing shop. As a young person,… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Between nine and ten, at last, in the high clear picture--he was moving in these days, as in a gallery, from clever… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“There is always a mysterious conflict in every artist; if life treats him roughly he longs for peace and calm, but if… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
If you work with love and intelligence, you develop a kind of armour against people's opinions, just because of the sincerity of… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
It's a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
I'm a designer. I make clothes and bags and shoes. I have a job that involves making creative choices, but I'm not… — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
One of the wonderful things that I've always loved as an art student, what I always loved about comics, was that they… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is great. The description of… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
Art is something absolute, something positive, which gives power just as food gives power. While creative science is a mental food, art… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
What kinds of problems, and what kinds of meanings, happen in the paint? Or as one historian puts it, 'What is thinking… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
Artists are those people who sit at the intersection between the known and unknown, the rational and irrational, coming to terms with… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Marco Rubio is one of those people. How does that work? How can you call him a con artist and dangerous, and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I know some stories about "liberation" and stuff that's been liberated by people who turn around and get on their soapbox about… — Mike Royer Copy Share Image
Ask anyone who makes a full-length movie that's shown in the art world if they'd rather have a career as a film… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
I admire the artists that work everyday to attest things for themselves... In the act of transforming the objects of the everyday… — Gabriel Orozco Copy Share Image
I like the little chess match of how people move through space. I'm not comparing myself to Michelangelo with this analogy, but… — Timothy Miller Copy Share Image
When I'm talking to an artist, I'm not being malicious when I tell them their music is wack. These are artists with… — Charlamagne Tha God Copy Share Image
I was a Fine Art major. You do a bit of everything until the final year, when you specialise. I did pencil… — Timothy Olyphant Copy Share Image
It's much harder to work for yourself, by yourself, than to create work for a gallery, because there are no limits and… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
All the art of the past rises up before me, the art of all ages and all civilizations, everything becomes simultaneous, as… — Alberto Giacometti Copy Share Image
I think perhaps I've learned to be myself. I have a theory that all artists who would be important - painters and… — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
Whether it is drawing or painting, skilled Artists usually deliver a faster result without jeopardizing the quality, simply because they don't have… — Igor Babailov Copy Share Image
you don't need talent to be an artist. 'Artist' is just a frame of mind. Anybody can be an artist, anybody can… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
I know well enough in advance that you'll find my paintings perfect. I know that if they are exhibited they'll be a… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
... maybe that's all anyone who writes or paints or sculpts is doing anyway -- excusing themselves for refusing to live like… — Kathleen Winsor Copy Share Image
“Just as no significant work of art can be created without the element of irrationality that is in fact the artist's talent."… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
It's absolutely irrelevant what galleries and critics and people who buy your paintings think. They just don't have any possible idea of… — Milton Resnick Copy Share Image
Leonardo da Vinci, one of the greatest creative thinkers of all time, strongly recommended the habit of meditation in the dark. He… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
I asked someone once why he liked Jean-Michel's work and why it was being singled out for acclaim, and he said, 'Because… — Rene Ricard Copy Share Image
When I worked with David LaChappelle, I was stimulated... He was explaining how he does things, how he works. I realized what… — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a German, French, or Anglo-American Expressionism! There are only young people trying to find their bearings… — Oskar Kokoschka Copy Share Image
My paintings should become objects into which one could float, as in water, so that one's mind is hung... suspended, and the… — Douglas Portway Copy Share Image
“Witnessing the panoply of beauty in all of nature takes us out of our shell of self-absorption and makes us realize that… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Doing crime films...maybe it's to some extent a matter of taste. Certainly my first novel had a criminal element and was about… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
“When we see things from a different perspective, they either transform into fair features or slip under the cloak of the collective… — Kayla Severson Copy Share Image
There is a wonderful feeling when you walk into your own exhibition. You see the work as a true extension of yourself.… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
“And is it not the artists that make art? Well, no: criticism is now the substance of art making to such a… — Paul Shepheard Copy Share Image
