You can't be the vulnerable, transparent, raw person required to be an artist, and then cover that stuff up and meet the… — Idina Menzel Copy Share Image
I saw that everything famous and beautiful in the world, if we judge by the descriptions and drawings of writers and artists,… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
You may dislike the intention enormously but your judgment of the artistic merit of the work must not be based on your… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
The beats change, I mean you got a lot of artists out there advancing new sound, new technology, new beats everything sounding… — Kool Keith Copy Share Image
It isn't up to the painter to define the symbols. Otherwise it would be better if he wrote them out in so… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this religious feeling and keep it alive… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
At any rate, when I began photographing myself, I could place myself in poses that had not been investigated by other artists.… — Lucas Samaras Copy Share Image
To desire to be an artist is to desire to be a complete man in respect to some one function, to realize… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
Since the traditional recorded-music business models have drastically changed, there is truly diminished income derived from recorded music by artists - both… — Irving Azoff Copy Share Image
I like to blow up this notion that all we have to do as writers and artists is represent reality, which is… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Every artist is in everything he creates, and indeed if the truth is told, every person is in his life, in his… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
The real artists are ultimately people who don't consider their audience and are almost incapable of considering their audience. They can do… — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
You cannot just be the feature act, not that that's a bad thing, because that's a good thing, especially nowadays. But as… — MO Copy Share Image
Every artist learns through imitation, but I rather doubt the aim of these things is artistic development. I assume they're either homages… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
In painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos. I have… — Grace Hartigan Copy Share Image
The best confidence artist makes us feel not as if we're being taken for a ride but as if we are genuinely… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
The main difference between the art of the actor and all other arts is that every other [non-performing] artist may create whenever… — Constantin Stanislavski Copy Share Image
Although I still have a long way to go, I would like to become the pride of Asia. When another Asian artist… — Rain Copy Share Image
“Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. Vice and virtue are the artist’s materials for an art. From… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Or perhaps it is just that George has spent proper time looking at this one painting and that every single experience of… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
There ought to be only one large art warehouse in the world, to which the artist could carry his art-works and from… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
If you had every color and palette and any size canvas you'd want, it'd kind of feel overwhelming and you wouldn't make… — Olivia Rodrigo Copy Share Image
If art means as much to you as it does to me, or even if you're just exploring the art world for… — Lynda Resnick Copy Share Image
Agents of disruption, subversion, sabotage and disinformation tunnelers and smugglers, listeners and forgers, trainers and recruiters and talent spotters and couriers and… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
The coming and going of birth and death is a painting. Unsurpassed enlightenment is a painting. The entire phenomenal universe and the… — Dogen Copy Share Image
“Ironically, I believe Picasso was right. I believe we could paint a better world if we learned to see it from all… — Hannah Gadsby Copy Share Image
I've started to experiment [in the studio] with texturing the canvas, building up the surface with large brushes, palette knife or fingers.… — T. Allen Lawson Copy Share Image
I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found - the beauty… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Putting out a debut album is a bit scary - I want it to be just right, so I took some extra… — Skylar Grey Copy Share Image
“Your thoughts construct patterns like scaffolding in your mind. You are really etching chemical patterns. In most cases, people get stuck in… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
It's important for artists to value themselves - whatever that means. Everyone's going to take that in a different way. If you… — Benji Madden Copy Share Image
I meet many people, I talk with them, like a TV show host. I show what's going on with Greenpeace, interesing political… — Nina Hagen Copy Share Image
The usual struggle squeezing my bloated Citroën, absurdly named “Picasso,” in or out of any old Italian town. I should be taking… — Joscelyn Godwin Copy Share Image
I thought the message of the artist was more important than the writing style. I tried to be clear; I wanted everyone… — Robert Hilburn Copy Share Image
“The painting showed she did not yet know that lives end abruptly, that much of living is repetition and separation, that buttons… — Susan Vreeland Copy Share Image
When you grow up in New Orleans, like, the only way to be an artist is to be a 55-year-old black musician.… — Jay Duplass Copy Share Image
One never finishes learning about art. There are always new things to discover. Great works of art seem to look different every… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
“Why do you paint, Akram?” I asked. “What—” “Close your eyes, Sebastian,” he said, stopping me. “Just for a minute, close them… — Ahmad Ardalan Copy Share Image
Art is a severe business; most serious when employed in grand and sacred objects. The artist stands higher than art, higher than… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The people who truly love you don't try to paint you with their brushes & colours. Instead they make you hold the… — Chanda Kaushik Copy Share Image