The artist should paint not only what he sees before him, but also what he sees within him. If, however, he sees… — Caspar David Friedrich Copy Share Image
I never want to abandon my roots. I want to give my past and the history of painting the importance it deserves,… — Jose Parla Copy Share Image
One of the things I like about our contract is that you have relieved me of a great deal of personal interviewing… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
I felt that everything is beautiful, but that which man tries intentionally to make beautiful; that the work of an ordinary bricklayer… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
This is something that, as artists, we constantly deal with-throwing away the past, slaying the father, and creating the new. This desire… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
It's a privilege, you know, to paint and it takes up a lot of time and it means there's a lot of… — Alice Neel Copy Share Image
Like so many other nerdy, disaffected young people of that time, I dreamed of becoming an 'artist', i.e., somebody whose adult job… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Things are not all so comprehensible and utterable as people would mostly have us believe; most events are unutterable, consummating themselves in… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture… — Dan Rice Copy Share Image
I love games. I honestly can't imagine working with any other medium. I guess it would be akin to an artist who's… — Brenda Brathwaite Copy Share Image
I don't have a burning desire to go out and document anything. It just happens when it happens. It's not a conscious… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
There, at the centre, are the artists who really form the consciousness of their time; they respond deeply, intuitively to what is… — John Wain Copy Share Image
I don't think you can create art out of anger; it has to come out of some form of understanding. You have… — Faith Ringgold Copy Share Image
I sometimes set myself thinking and imagining that I find amongst men but one single art or science, and that is drawing… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
A Children’s Museum, however, is more of a Funatorium. You are encouraged to touch things, which is poor training for subsequent museum… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
Art is about imagination. When you look at a picture from Salvador Dali, that's about imagination. When you look at Picasso, that's… — LL Cool J Copy Share Image
To be a good artist, you need to be sensitive to the world around you, you need to be curious, you need… — Arlo Parks Copy Share Image
Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don't have any money really to… — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
“I wish art was like money in that the more I made, the more interest it developed and plentiful it became. Money… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
The partnership over the 28 years we had the company afforded him the opportunity to experiment and live his life as an… — Jerry Moss Copy Share Image
Radio is so cutthroat, but I do feel like the music industry is structured so differently than it used to be. I'm… — Caroline Polachek Copy Share Image
The Mona Lisa, to me, is the greatest emotional painting ever done. The way the smile flickers makes it a work of… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in how visual artists think because I think the way that I think about music is similar. I'm very… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I cannot draw to save my life, and I'm not a big art scholar, but I worked with many designers throughout my… — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
In general, in painting sometimes people like Picasso or somebody are not very well known in the beginning, sometimes they become well… — Rokia Traore Copy Share Image
If artists do see fields blue they are deranged, and should go to an asylum. If they only pretend to see them… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“English tourists returned home [from the Italian Campagna] eager to make their own estates resemble Arcadian art. This fertile connection between horticultural… — Karen R. Jones & John Wills Copy Share Image
Painting figures is the hardest, certainly the most taxing genre, and you have to be the most on your game. If you… — Jacob Collins Copy Share Image
When I was a kid just starting out on the radio, I would always watch people. And I'd see the interest they'd… — Eddie Trunk Copy Share Image
How do you make the timelessness of inert, silent objects count for something? How to use the, in a way, dumbness of… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
I think that when you do any kind of theatrical form, (you can't really do this in the theater) the task as… — Scott Cohen Copy Share Image
Sometimes, the songs that really affected me were not from the artist catalogue of their music, like the song 'Thunder Road' by… — Beth Hart Copy Share Image
Individuality and originality is was separates good and great artists! How much they can move people with what they do! If they… — Hiromi Copy Share Image
...why did Plato say that poets should be chased out of the republic? Precisely because every poet and every artist is an… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
There is only one reason for art in America, and that is that the people of America learn the means of expressing… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase.… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Before this I tended to paint figures and put them in an environment. Now I paint an environment to put figures in.… — John Newman Copy Share Image
Your gifts lie in the place where your values, passions and strengths meet. Discovering that place is the first step toward sculpting… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
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