The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I… — Paul Allen Copy Share Image
It began when I was so ill that there was a good chance of dying. I promised myself that if I survived… — Helmut Newton Copy Share Image
I want people to understand that this is a very calibrated image [Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
“In truth, nothing could be more opposed to the purely aesthetic interpretation and justification of the world which are taught in this… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
The only problems I sometimes have is if I ask for a piece for a group show, if I ask for a… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
Being an artist and being a teacher are two conflicting things. When I paint, my work manifests the unexpected... In teaching it's… — Pierre Alechinsky Copy Share Image
I think in a way the great irony or paradox about America is that it makes it so hard for the sensitive… — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
The arts are not simply skills: their concern is the intellectual, ethical, and spiritual maturity of human life. And in a time… — Robert Shaw Copy Share Image
I think to varying degrees, every artist is using their partner as a sounding board. When your partner is the greatest songwriter… — JP Saxe Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Well, in order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
The true work of art is born from the 'artist': a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation. It detaches itself from him, it… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
“Art is the expression of appreciation of beauty real or imagined. It's also an examination of what it means to be alive… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
Make some sacrifice for your art and you will be repaid, but ask of art to sacrifice herself for you and a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I knew how the suits used to talk about the artists, with barely concealed contempt. So I knew what was waiting for… — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
In general, therefore, color is a means of exerting a direct influence upon the soul. Color is the keyboard. The eye is… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
At a time when painting itself often seems to be a threatened, even despised, form of artistic activity, Andrew Salgado emerges as… — Edward Lucie-Smith Copy Share Image
The hard part is how to plan a picture so as to give to others what has happened to you. To render… — Maxfield Parrish Copy Share Image
An artist has to train his responses more than other people do. He has to be as disciplined as a mathematician. Discipline… — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
One can thus state, without fear of being wrong, that every truly artistic production has been conceived and executed according to the… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
If you can see a world within a portrait I would be happy with that. I don't want to tell the story… — Danny Fox Copy Share Image
I don't paint women, I paint pictures. . . What I am after above all is expression. If in a portrait I… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I've worked with a hundred of the biggest artists in the world, from Madonna to Mariah Carey, and he [Michael Jackson] is… — Brett Ratner Copy Share Image
When I go to China I see many artists whose work reflects on aspects of contemporary popular culture but obviously the history… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
One of the smartest things Kickstarter has done, in my opinion, is give people a great shopping experience related to the arts,… — Jessica Jackley Copy Share Image
“...hanging out does not make one an artist. A secondhand wardrobe does not make one an artist. Neither do a hair-trigger temper,… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
When I'm not working on a children's book, I'm painting abstract paintings. That's probably the most joyous thing for me as an… — Mary GrandPre Copy Share Image
That lifestyle wears you down fast, so I started to take better care of myself. I exercise, sleep eight hours a night,… — Beth Riesgraf Copy Share Image
All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained both classical and romantic elements - order… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Culturally, it's really funny to me that people respect the weird guy as an artist. There can be a curmudgeon in the… — Mark Foster Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in perfection. The universe is perfect, and there are some works of art that we see as perfect, but… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
I used to have to downplay my sexuality because I wanted to be taken so seriously as a thespian and as an… — Halle Berry Copy Share Image
At one time there were voiceover artists, now there are celebrity voiceover artists. It's unfortunate because these people need the money less… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
In the Raphael Room, the secret turned out to be that only some of the paintings were made by the great master;… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Art today is a new kind of instrument, an instrument for modifying consciousness and organizing new modes of sensibility . . .… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“I want to remind us all that art is dangerous. I want to remind you of the history of artists who have… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Where Picasso paints cause, Repin paints effect. Repin predigests art for the spectator and provides a short cut to the pleasure of… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
At times, to make progress, you end up offending people. And people were offended by many things I have done over the… — Dov Charney Copy Share Image
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