Perspective is a law of optics... The Chinese did not have a system like it. Indeed, it is said they rejected the… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Painting, which is essentially a rhythmic harmony of coloured spaces. Realism was the death of art. Great art should come from the… — Arthur Wesley Dow Copy Share Image
Talent is cheap, you have to be possessed or obsessed, rather. You really have to feel like you cannot not do art,… — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
Artists make their work to be seen by others. Well, really we do it to please ourselves, but whatever your art is,… — Alex Cox Copy Share Image
The problem with a popular art form is that those who want something more are in a hopeless minority compared with the… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
I remembered my New Orleans days, living on two five-cent candy bars a day for weeks at a time in order to… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
An improv artist's best instrument is their ability keep their antennae clean so they're able to receive what I call the connection… — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
I firmly believe in music being as free as possible. Unlocked. Shared and spread. In order for artists to survive and create,… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
I've always taken the view that works of art are not just things that we enjoy. They can convey truths about the… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Wall-to-wall masterpieces, after all, ought to be preferred to wall-to-wall decorative arts, even if the decorative arts are of the highest quality… — Joseph Alsop Copy Share Image
Most of arts what comes from the States to Europe has something to do with entertainment. I can't imagine artists in the… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
Well, I'd say that the beginning of this thing came through with Art of This Century, Peggy Guggenheim's, where she opened this… — Lee Krasner Copy Share Image
Now Art, used collectively for painting, sculpture, architecture and music, is the mediatress between, and reconciler of, nature and man. It is,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I want to reach out and entertain people. I want people to come to a museum that have never been in a… — Wayne White Copy Share Image
I think that the most effective social protest that any artist can do would be things that come naturally and feel obvious.… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
An artist of understanding and experience can show more of his great power and art in small things roughly and rudely done,… — Albrecht Durer Copy Share Image
One of my great frustrations for 35 years at the paper was the fact I couldn't play a record for the reader… — Robert Hilburn Copy Share Image
I think making art is something where you think you know, you also know you don't know and you hope - all… — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image
I do all of marketing and promotion - it's the most exhaustive and rewarding part of the process and I wouldn't trade… — Hoodie Allen Copy Share Image
I'm a Banksy fan. I'm also a fan of Chris Hobe, Mister Totem, Drew Wootten, Mad Clout, Hense and Sever, in visual… — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
My years with Aretha Franklin have been very special, as were the years making records with Dionne Warwick. Other highlights include working… — Clive Davis Copy Share Image
You don't have to be Picasso or Rembrandt to create something. The fun of it, the joy of creating, is way high… — Chick Corea Copy Share Image
I started off playing by ear, and being around a bunch of musicians and playing in the streets and in the different… — Troy Andrews Copy Share Image
The artist usually sets out -- or used to -- to point a moral and adorn a tale. The tale, however, points… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Artists are often having very similar conversations across the various disciplines through which they choose to excel, but you rarely see them… — Michael Salu Copy Share Image
It is through color changes that we go forward... all decisions come about as the picture is made and in response to… — Wolf Kahn Copy Share Image
Country radio certainly widens the boundaries of what I can do. Other artists may do something more edgy that gets on radio… — Clint Black Copy Share Image
The artist must raise the cup of his vision aloft to the gods in the high hope that they will pour into… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
I have made it a rule for a long time, not to part with the copyright of my drawings, for I have… — Kate Greenaway Copy Share Image
If that condition of mind and soul, which we call inspiration, lasted long without intermission, no artist could survive it. The strings… — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
I think I'm enjoying writing for me.I know what's in my head, so there's a little less margin for error, but I… — David Finch Copy Share Image
Hanns Heinz Ewers tells a short story of a boy who was so unnatural of disposition as to take a special delight… — Alfred Rosenberg Copy Share Image
We want to see the newest things. That is because we want to see the future, even if only momentarily. It is… — Takashi Murakami Copy Share Image
I honestly believe students of painting in the next century will laugh at the abstract art movement. They will marvel at such… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
What I really love about the Bay area sound is that it's very unique and that's something I want to strive for,… — Saweetie Copy Share Image
Art is not a substitute religion: it is a religion (in the true sense of the word: 'binding back', 'binding' to the… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Intellectual culture seems to separate high art from low art. Low art is horror or pornography or anything that has a physical… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Life may as properly be called an art as any other; and the great incidents in it are no more to be… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Art is an attitude toward life. If you aim your work and your life high, keep your scene harmonious, then you're an… — Gage Taylor Copy Share Image
“I wish I was a true artist as you so that I could find a way to tell you what you've become… — Kiera Cass Copy Share Image
