[My twin brother] he was the star artist of the family as we - as we were growing up. He eventually lost… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
If people knew what Matisse, supposedly the painter of happiness, had gone through, the anguish and tragedy he had to overcome to… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Im ridiculously fortunate to get a chance to experience the sitcom world. The schedule is extremely easy, and you get fed as… — Andrea Anders Copy Share Image
Time is the guy at the amusement park who paints shirts with an airbrush. He sprays out the color in a fine… — Ian Caldwell Copy Share Image
I understand why people went nuts for 'The Artist.' We use words so much, it's nice to be able to explore a… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
The moment artists can just do what they love to do then music will go right back to where it used to… — Akon Copy Share Image
If evil means to be self-motivated, to be the center of one’s own universe, to live on one’s own terms, then every… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
My work first engaged with the early russian avant-garde; the paintings of moholy-nagy, el lissitzky's 'prouns' and naum gabo's sculptures, but in… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
For me, a lot of my work has dealt with what it means to be at the center of the universe and… — Marco Brambilla Copy Share Image
“If we are artists- hell, whether or not we're artists- it is our job, our responsibility, perhaps even our sacred calling, to… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
The power of your audience is in the hand of the artist now via all the media - Facebook and Twitter and… — Peter Frampton Copy Share Image
The fact that there isn't a performance right [for the use of sound recordings on terrestrial radio] means there's hundreds of millions… — Neil Portnow Copy Share Image
By and large, the making of serious, thoughtful and occasionally valuable art has become a lonely persuasion, while the marketing of art… — Abe Ajay Copy Share Image
I never really followed the traditional route when it comes to what people probably expect as a solo artist goes, but that's… — Nick Carter Copy Share Image
Believing in yourself and what you do is so important. It took me a long time to find that confidence. If you're… — Kate Voegele Copy Share Image
My mission is to communicate, to wake people up, to give them my energy and accept theirs. We're all in it together,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I'm not different from others , I just absorb sensations the way a paintbrush grasps each color it touches, the shift of… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
It's sometimes hard to talk about politics and art. Obviously, I have my core beliefs, but I think art is best when… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
The Human subject is the most important thing. My work is abstract in the sense of having been designed and composed, but… — Jacob Lawrence Copy Share Image
I don't think people are terribly interested in young artists who were doing interesting thing, but I don't think people are terribly… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
I'm part of an industry that everybody wants to be a part of. I do hang out with a lot of sort… — Duncan Roy Copy Share Image
I think what we're attracted to on the page is something that is very difficult to do in life, which is to… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
“Have you ever stared at a painting so long that the colors blur and you can’t tell what you’re looking at anymore?… — Amy Harmon Copy Share Image
Don't help me or serve me, but let me see it once, because I need it. Don't work for my happiness, my… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In college, this cheerleader put me on to this artist called Kimbra, and that was huge to me because that's the first… — Masego Copy Share Image
... too many young painters of the day work for the crowd, and not for art. But, then, should not the painters… — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
I don't want to be a Michael Moore-style artist, which is not to disparage Michael Moore. But he seems rather unsuccessful at… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
The artist who paints the emotions creates an enclosed world... the picture... which, like a book, has the same interest no matter… — Pierre Bonnard Copy Share Image
When Picasso paints as a cubist, putting one tone next to another, the arrangement of planes is fine and the results very… — Aristide Maillol Copy Share Image
“In other words, art is a realm entirely separated from the interests of real life-a refuge for detached and gifted souls from… — DeWitt Henry Parker Copy Share Image
Actually, you want to go into an area where you're frightened. Otherwise, you're just going to be repainting beautiful paintings, but a… — Alex Katz Copy Share Image
“You know one thing that Mr. Powell taught me? He taught me that sometimes, art can make you forget everything else all… — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
I believe that art has been a vehicle for me that's been about enlightenment and expanding my own parameters, to give me… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
You kind of notice what's going on in your body, and you can kind of feel a certain tightening, or fear, which… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
“To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gift -absolute gifts- which have not been acquired by one's effort. And,… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
I am interested in a political art, that is to say an art of ambiguity, contradiction, uncompleted gestures and uncertain ending -… — William Kentridge Copy Share Image
I studied all about Gauguin. He was a banker. He was a banker who - he used to paint on Sundays. And… — Anthony Quinn Copy Share Image
There is a case for saying that the creation of new aesthetic forms has been the most fundamentally productive of all forms… — John Zachary Young Copy Share Image
The drawings that interest me most are made with closed eyes. With eyes closed, I feel my hand slide down on the… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
“What are you doing here?” All right, he was standing in front of an easel, holding a paint palette and brush. “Taxidermy?”… — Robyn Carr Copy Share Image
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