It is, of course, a luxury to create art and, on top of this, to insist on expressing one's own artistic opinion.… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
Some people in the art world bemoan the hedge fund millionaires spending freely to acquire ostentatious displays of wealth and coolth for… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
I don't know if I'm an impressionist or an expressionist. You can call me an American first... I've been labeled doing neimanism,… — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
I tried to exploit such freedom to create those drawings like if I was a boy. I tried to draw with that… — Alex Abreu Copy Share Image
“The art of one's own time tends to be formidable . . . because we have to learn how and where to… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I do see myself as the heir to a vast, great, rich culture of painting - of art in general - which… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as abstract art, or else all art is abstract, which amounts to the same thing. Abstract art… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
As if goaded by a kind of frantic despair, I sketched these dirty, ragged little victims of the war with their bruised,… — Walter Keane Copy Share Image
I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life. If I was… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
A professional entertainer who allows himself to become known as a singer of folk songs is bound to have trouble with his… — Sam Hinton Copy Share Image
I have a great body, I really do. But I want to be taken seriously as an artist, and wearing anything that… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
Hatred, rancor, and the spirit of vengeance are useless baggage to the artist. His road is difficult enough for him to cleanse… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Expression for me does not reside in passions glowing in a human face or manifested by violent movement. The entire arrangement of… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I suppose I view my behavior in such a unique way. I frame it as an artist and maybe kind of make… — Matthew Healy Copy Share Image
In Rome, I really wanted an Audrey Hepburn Roman Holiday experience, but the Trevi Fountain was crowded, there was a McDonald's at… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer...When I was… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is… — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
Real orgies are never so exciting as pornographic books. In a volume by Pierre Louys all the girls are young and their… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
If an artist may say nothing except what he has invented by his own sole efforts, it stands to reason he will… — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
I don't make music to make money. I make music because that's what I like to do. You would think, "Yeah, of… — Del tha Funkee Homosapien Copy Share Image
My first artist bus was Jason Aldean's old bus, with deer antlers over the lights and cowhide on the back of the… — Kelsea Ballerini Copy Share Image
“Leonardo da Vinci, was brought to the Vatican in 1513 by the new pope, Leo X, and given a list of commissions… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of… — Giorgio de Chirico Copy Share Image
“There are no guarantees that if you work hard enough, or are talented enough, that you will be successful, be able to… — Jessica Todd Harper Copy Share Image
An artist should be well read in the best books, and thoroughly high bred, both in heart and bearing. In a word,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
When I was in school, they say everybody can do art. And I was, like, a little bit obstinate - not an… — Peter Stormare Copy Share Image
Art, if it can be ascribed value, is most valuable when its beauty (and the beauty of the truth it tells) bewilders,… — Andrew Peterson Copy Share Image
I wanted to paint pictures of people. I thought, "Why bother doing anything else. Everything else is a waste of time. I… — Lisa Yuskavage Copy Share Image
“The claims of contemporary art cannot be ignored in any vital scheme of life. The art of to-day is that which really… — Kakuzō Okakura Copy Share Image
I know that for category purposes, people have to lump certain artists in with genre that they make their name or their… — Joe Louis Walker Copy Share Image
Art is why I get up in the morning; my definition ends there. You know it doesn't seem fair, that I'm living… — Ani Difranco Copy Share Image
What is art but the life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“Writing, music, sculpting, painting, and prayer! These are the three things that are most closely related! Writers, musicians, sculptors, painters, and the… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
Visually Agincourt is a pre-Raphaelite, perhaps better a Medici Gallery print battle - a composition of strong verticals and horizontals and a… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
Imagination without knowledge leads no farther than the back yard of primitive art, the child's scrawl on the fence, and the crank's… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Even if you can't afford to buy a painting, you can experience it. You can go see the Mona Lisa and be… — Adrien Brody Copy Share Image
An intrinsic part of the whole delicious, exuberant fun, and joy of painting consists in simply not having to bother about making… — Mervyn Levy Copy Share Image
I value above all the ability of art to move me emotionally and psychically, without answers. I make art that makes me… — April Gornik Copy Share Image
The vast majority of artists worldwide are unrepresented, disenfranchised or otherwise don't have an opportunity to sell or have their work shown.… — Bruce Livingstone Copy Share Image
