I'm the Latin artist who has been the most successful in history at representing the Latin culture. The stylings of my words… — Julio Iglesias Copy Share Image
As an artist when you come into [hip hop] you don't know nothing really. You just know what you do and it's… — Mic Geronimo Copy Share Image
The idea of the culture that you live in determining meaning in your art, though, is a very important aspect of what… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
In Mexico, muralism is an important part of the artistic vocabulary, and it has a very different place than it does in… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
In my sculpture, it's not an image I am seeking, it's not an idea. My goal is to re-live a past emotion.… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
“For the artist, the goal of the painting or musical composition is not to convey literal truth, but an aspect of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Few people in contemporary art demonstrate much curiosity. The majority spend their days blathering on, rather than trying to work out why… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
Art should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else.… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
The gallery closed its doors in 1971. I could no longer psychologically handle the needs of 12 artists. I cared about all… — Virginia Dwan Copy Share Image
I think that those of us who are what are called intellectuals make a terrible mistake in overvaluing the yen we have… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
No other creative field is as closed to those who are not white and male as is the visual arts. After I… — Faith Ringgold Copy Share Image
I think it's important to make art for a myriad of reasons. The least of which is that I think laughter is… — Natasha Rothwell Copy Share Image
Painting is concerned with the ten things you can see: these are darkness and brightness, substance and color, form and place, remoteness… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I relate to the feeling that Da Vinci was often plagued by the idea that what he did wasn't good enough, that… — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
“Truth be told, happiness is like the artist's muse. She is very whimsical and loves to play little tricks on us. If… — Jamie Cat Callan Copy Share Image
Just because you're a solo artist playing guitar, that doesn't make it folk. People get a bit confused about these things. There's… — Marika Hackman Copy Share Image
I see friends of mine who have kids and continue to do their art. It's deeply impressive. I can't even fit an… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
A hint - don't paint too much direct from nature. Art is an abstraction! study nature then brood on it and treasure… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Beauty and art pervade all the business of life like a kindly genius, brightly adorning our surroundings whether interior or exterior, mitigating… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities… — Morris Graves Copy Share Image
The artist should preach nothing-not even his own autonomy. His art should speak its own truth, and in so doing it will… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“I have told the story of the great plague-summer; as an artist I could have wished that there had been more structure… — Kenneth Patchen Copy Share Image
I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual,… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I… — Howard Ikemoto Copy Share Image
I had a visit from an artist friend who basically said, "Your paintings are wonderful. Now stop." It did resonate with me.… — Caio Fonseca Copy Share Image
A lot of musicians are good cooks, and a lot of cooks are musicians, but I think that may just be a… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
“As Stravinsky says, art is nothing more than placing limits and working against them rigorously … and if we refuse to place… — Robert Wachter Copy Share Image
I have always wanted to make paintings that are impossible to walk past, paintings that grab and hold your attention. The more… — Cecily Brown Copy Share Image
My time in Moscowmade a man of memade me an artistthere was a reality and a brutality of life that I think… — Jon Bernthal Copy Share Image
All art is fundamentally subversive, because it upsets people's perceptions, their notions about society. Therefore, art is dangerous, but good art is… — John Boorman Copy Share Image
“Matisse never hoped to save lives. But he repeatedly said that he wanted to make paintings so serenely beautiful that when one… — Elaine Scarry Copy Share Image
I'm atypical in my personal life, my situation is not that of the average struggling artist, and so I feel like I… — Zoe Buckman Copy Share Image
Well, Daddy, I used to believe that artists went crazy in the process of creating the beautiful works of art that kept… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The primary role of the music industry is to have artists be heard above the rest. It's a big needle in a… — Ali Partovi Copy Share Image
“A part of me wants to believe that I was born an artist. That it was my inexorable destiny to become a… — Cristian Mihai Copy Share Image
I just want people to recognize my father as an artist who was way ahead of his time. He was a genius.… — Freddie Prinze, Jr Copy Share Image
Instead of being a well-known painter, I became everybody's favorite dirty joke. Come to think of it, teaching masturbation skills is pretty… — Betty Dodson Copy Share Image
To be born with a unique instinct, will demand 'unique duties'. If you didn't think about being an artist before 7 years… — David Luiz Copy Share Image
In Afghanistan I was doing street art because it was more open, but when I had a show, only men would come.… — Malina Suliman Copy Share Image
All the children of America, up to age seven or eight or nine or ten - they're really great artists. So here… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
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