I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I am dead against art's being self-expression. I see an inherent failure in any story which fails to detach itself from the… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
I like to tell the artist what the song or album means to me, in detail. Then I let the artist run… — Rick DeJesus Copy Share Image
Most people don't realize the many steps that a pop-up goes through. There are a variety of "Dummies" (the sketch phase of… — Tomie dePaola Copy Share Image
The power of a painting has to come from the inside out, not the outside in. It's not just an image. It's… — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
I like to make sculpture because it makes my life social. When I make drawings, I work alone. When I work with… — Camille Henrot Copy Share Image
“The room was not a room to elevate the soul. Louis XIV, to pick a name at random, would not have liked… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I went to Havana, and I was like, "Wow, there's culture everywhere!" That was one thing that I did notice when I… — Aaron McGruder Copy Share Image
The beauty with comics - and also the risk - is it is a far smaller number of voices. It's the writer… — Eric Heisserer Copy Share Image
I don't buy art. I'd rather buy a beautiful location or a beautiful site than buy art. A beautiful home is like… — Millard Drexler Copy Share Image
Every intelligent person, whether he's an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of… — Yehuda Amichai Copy Share Image
Apparently, a cleaner at Tate Britain... threw out a bag of rubbish, accidentally we are told, that was part of an exhibition… — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
I realized I couldn't get bookings as a performing artist on the road, as it were, I could not make a living… — Van Dyke Parks Copy Share Image
All art speaks in signs and symbols. No one can explain how it happens that the artist can waken to life in… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
To be an artist, you're basically a crazy person. You're extremely narcissistic and emotionally expressive. The idea that the world needs to… — Chloe Wise Copy Share Image
Men and words are ready made, and you, O Painter, if you do not know how to make your figures move, are… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
People are going to have a good time, you know. One can go have a good time at these big openings in… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
I think the best advice I would give young artists is to always be working on your craft, because there are so… — Eric Benet Copy Share Image
I was a bit scared because I came from the acting world. There was a fear that people would think of me… — Jana Kramer Copy Share Image
“At the point in his lecture where he was saying that the representative element in a work of art is always irrelevant,… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
“All the same, I don't mean nothin' you wouldn't like yer mas to know about, see? That's straight, that is. It's Art,… — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
A stock certificate is not a tool, like a shovel, or a commodity, like a pound of cheese. What we sell a… — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
“General belief is “There is no real magic, only tricks” but a great magician compel people not to trust that belief and… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable. He… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I'm a tireless worker; I don't consider painting a work, it is not an obligation, I do it for pleasure; I haven't… — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
Art as an aesthetic principle was supported by thousands of years of discernment and psychic rewards, but art as a commodity was… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
There were times, earlier in my career, where I didn't have the wherewithal to self-edit, and I probably said things and pushed… — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
As a child growing up among artists I learned to think of a picture not as a finished product exposed for the… — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
I don't think music can be held. I don't think artists can be put into boxes or places. It's all about creating… — Trey Songz Copy Share Image
Business is a creative and therefore spiritual endeavor. Great entrepreneurs enter the field of business in the same way great artists enter… — Yasuhiko Kimura Copy Share Image
Art is supposed to be about creativity. But the same people are the same art darlings every month, and it's a bit… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
The British are so funny. It's like they can't believe I lived in Hackney. 'You could live in Bondi Beach. Why would… — Rose Byrne Copy Share Image
“Art has no immediate future because all art is collective and there is no more collective life(there are only dead collections of… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element, a distortion, giving evidence of a struggle . .… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
Art keeps its newness because it's at once unforgettable and impossible to remember entirely. Art is too volatile, multiple and evaporative to… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
A great artist transforms our world, removes scales from our eyes, plugs from our ears, gloves from our fingertips, teaches us to… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
“How do I describe him now? Where do I start? How do I distill the first impression created in those few distance… — Dorit Rabinyan Copy Share Image
A lot of artists were members of the artistic union. It gave you the possibility to buy paints, canvases, brushes, even the… — Ilya Kabakov Copy Share Image
I think that one of Tim's great qualities and abilities is in what seems like a thumbnail sketch to get something quite… — Albert Finney Copy Share Image
