I'm an ambitious self-publicist out of necessity. I've never been one to miss an opportunity because I've never had any illusions about… — Stuart Pearson Wright Copy Share Image
Once I have the finished sculpture, I’ll put it out on the street or in nature or somewhere where it interacts with… — Mark Jenkins Copy Share Image
Take the birds which you'll have noticed in so many of my recent paintings. I never thought them up, they just materialized… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
I'm a regular person. I'm a regular guy. As a kid, I played games. As a kid, I liked poetry. As a… — Myles Garrett Copy Share Image
Self-expression is a hallmark of an artist, of art, to get something off one's chest, to sing one's song. So that element… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
No matter the style, the farther one goes the more obstacles increase, and the more distant appears the object it is desired… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
Weaknesses in men of genius are usually an exaggeration of their personal feeling; in the hands of feeble imitators they become the… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“To be an artist means: not to calculate and count; to grow and ripen like a tree which does not hurry the… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Here is what I was trying to figure out: how a miracle happens. A great work of art -- something that makes… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
I've often thought - even though it's hard to give him even more credit than he has had - that Andy Warhol… — Lee Radziwill Copy Share Image
“The painting was a portrait of Cinderella, finished before the war. Before Erlauf. It showed Cinderella in a beautiful, elaborate—and uncomfortable, as… — K.M. Shea Copy Share Image
I try to just put a blank stage in front of them, and say, "This is your space; you tell me where… — Doug Aitken Copy Share Image
“This way of 'choosing to be an an artist' seems lost for ever to today's impatient and cynical youth, who dream of… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Cartola is an artist from Brazil who didn't record until much later in his life, but had a big influence on a… — Jesse Harris Copy Share Image
This game is lame, the music comes second So you can save that stupidness for all them artists you checkin. Popularity don't… — Craig G Copy Share Image
People are tempted to politicize the fact that I paint black figures, and the complexity of this is an essential part of… — Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Copy Share Image
“Finally, when someone asked [Pollack] how he knew when a painting was finished, he replied, “How do you know when you’ve finished… — Ross Wetzsteon Copy Share Image
The word mystical is an even worse word than spirituality - that artists take drugs, and then they add some crazy extra… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
That's the message I want to give to every up-and-coming artist: Do everything that is going to help you later. If you… — Mary J. Blige Copy Share Image
I consider being a performer work. I come from a theater family; I've been an actor all my life. I started acting… — Torquil Campbell Copy Share Image
I think every collection is always a move forward. It's the same work - the process is always the same. The interesting… — Tomas Maier Copy Share Image
“Mitchell Maxwell’s Maxims • You have to create your own professional path. There’s no longer a roadmap for an artistic career. •… — Mitchell Maxwell Copy Share Image
In contemporary art or movies, it makes perfect sense to be focused on the bleeding edge, on the new idea that's never… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
If you look across the valley, you can see exactly what I mean: about four beautiful houses, and you think something is… — Jilly Cooper Copy Share Image
“Hers was the kind of family that commissioned painters to immortalize its young: a background utterly alien to Strike, and one he… — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
On the night he died - he was twenty-seven - Basquiat had been planning to see a Run-DMC show. When people asked… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
On lady novelists: As artists they're rot, but as providers they're oil wells; they gush. Norris said she never wrote a story… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
I started out as an artist, and what I do is verbal paintings. I paint a picture. Hopefully, you'll see the characters… — Jonathan Winters Copy Share Image
Pollock was terrific. I think he freed himself of all kinds of worry about this world. Ran around and dripped, and then… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
Avant garde" has become a ubiquitous label, eclectically applied to any type of art that is anti-traditional in form. At its simplest,… — C. D. Innes Copy Share Image
People see me as pretty low key in a lot of ways. And for me, like, even choosing to be John Legend… — John Legend Copy Share Image
I think the music reflects the state that the society is in. It doesn't suggest the state. I think the poets and… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, a book I read advised young artist to be themselves. That decided it for me. I was… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
Music changes constantly, especially when you're a 'pop' artist. What's mainstream or pop always has new influences, new sounds, and I love… — Pedro Capo Copy Share Image
Well you can see that I'm still in motion. It happens that you share the music with the audience. That is the… — Manu Dibango Copy Share Image
You've got to be in a place where you can put your guard down. I've got a long list of things I… — Devendra Banhart Copy Share Image
The women used the music to get their men to relate to them better: "talk to me, tell me what's on your… — Barry White Copy Share Image
What interests me is to paint the kind of antisensitivity that impregnates modern civilization. I think art since Cezanne has become extremely… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
As a great democratic society, we have a special responsibility to the arts. For art is the great democrat, calling forth creative… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
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