Not all, but too many of the best writers, composers, and artists of our time begin to be acclaimed only when they… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
We are talking about an artist; and for the enjoyment of the artist the mask must be to some extent moulded on… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I love audio books, and when I paint I'm always listening to a book. I find that my imagination really takes flight… — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
Now, there are people that are Christian artists, because they have a purpose to be evangelical for Christ. I don't feel I've… — Scott Stapp Copy Share Image
I try to avoid the 'art world' as much as possible. It's too much about fads and fashions - who's getting the… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
I always thought there was a - even in the most, quote, "conceptual art," there is always a physical aspect to it.… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
I think there's a danger with any great art, that if you begin to test your ideas on other people, and get… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
"Celebrity" is sort of an idea. I mean, I get to do something extraordinary, but I don't think it makes me extraordinary.… — Justin Timberlake Copy Share Image
Awareness of approach to death can be a beautiful thing, a frame into which we can put the work of art that… — June Singer Copy Share Image
Celebrity has become, for better or worse, an art form. An artist can use themselves as a medium to become a celebrity… — Jeffrey Deitch Copy Share Image
The idea of using media for expressing yourself artistically is kind of something I learned from my mother and my father. So… — Sean Lennon Copy Share Image
I believe that every artist has his or her own vision of the world; our job as artists is to find and… — Carole Katchen Copy Share Image
I use those expectations as a color on my palette, a certain temperature in the room. You can use those expectations for… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
“And as for Owen Warland, he looked placidly at what seemed the ruin of his life's labor, and which was yet no… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
My latest decorating obsession is dipping - like painting the bottom of things. I've done it to almost every terra-cotta pot in… — Tamara Taylor Copy Share Image
The eye can travel over the surface in a way parallel to the way it moves over nature. It should feel caressed… — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
My ambition is to construct a painting so that the whole of its surface is alive, however I look at it. Each… — Andrew Forge Copy Share Image
Many of Bonnard's later paintings are shot through with a powerful sense of morbidity. The self-portraits he painted after catching sight of… — Andrew Graham-Dixon Copy Share Image
I'm like a gypsy. I've got a place in Beijing, a place in New York, a place in west Africa; I'm working… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I found out later on that was not true, that life drawing tells you a great deal about rhythm, about the structure… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
The life of the arts is far from an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is close to the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“For so long she'd wanted to touch this work of art that was this boy, this too beautiful to be real creation,… — Ashlee Nicole Bye Copy Share Image
“Color corrected, yes, but I am reminding myself that it is still an image worthy of awe.” Yoshi is looking at the… — Meg Howrey Copy Share Image
“Think of the celebrated artwork on your fridge. Your best effort plus the love of the Savior is a masterpiece. It's not… — Kim Nelson Copy Share Image
To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. ... While all melts under our… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
Take your brush here and there like a bee in an alpine meadow. In other words, don't laboriously work on or try… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
“Deconstruction seeks neither to reframe art with some perfect, apt and truthful new frame, nor simply to maintain the illusion of some… — James N. Powell Copy Share Image
Pain s the truth of art. Art is not a hobby or a pastime. It is the result of an internal battle… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“Art is why I get up in the morning, but my definition ends there. You know, it doesn't seem fair that I'm… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
In interior decorating, the pig's actually quite there. It's used in paint for the texture, but also for the glossiness. In sandpaper,… — Christien Meindertsma Copy Share Image
It's pretentious to say, but my art is like a little Zen story, a story with a question mark at the end.… — Christian Boltanski Copy Share Image
Passion is the breath we take, the water we drink to sustain ourselves. Without air and water we perish; without passion an… — Jack White Copy Share Image
Look at Picasso. O’Neill. Tennessee Williams. Capote. Were these shiny happy people spreading sunshine? No. Only the greatest of personal demons can… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
In every human being there is the artist, and whatever his activity, he has an equal chance with any to express the… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
I don't sell anything. So, I have a personal image, but I think that's because I'm from an art background, and I'm… — Peter Marino Copy Share Image
“The world, moment by ordinary or agonizing moment, lies chock-full with its own clarifications and rewards. That such rewards most often go… — Robert Wrigley Copy Share Image
I gotta say, the Catholic Church has churned out a lot of great artists and directors and actors, so if that's all… — Paul Rust Copy Share Image
There are two great classes of men: the people and the scholars, the men of science. For the former, nothing exists but… — Johann Gottlieb Fichte Copy Share Image
If you want to be a songwriter and place a song with a popular artist, then it's ok to follow the trends.… — Wendy Starland Copy Share Image
There's something always instinctively visually right about nature. There's no difference, to my eye, between looking at a great painting and looking… — Larry Poons Copy Share Image
