There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium! The highest degree of delirium! Plunged… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
The whole 'serious artist' thing is very damaging. The powers that be will steer you towards your own demise. One thing I've… — Dave Gahan Copy Share Image
Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective, of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and therefore… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
As an artist I write about the world I want to live in. And as a musician and someone who is in… — Brett Dennen Copy Share Image
I decided that I wanted to be an artist in middle school, and although my mom wasn't fully on board with me… — Nayeon Copy Share Image
There is an arc of spontaneous revolts, beautiful in their creative beginnings, which traverses boundaries and borders and creates new solidarities and… — Nigel Gibson Copy Share Image
Know what you're trying to do before you do it. Turning knobs at random isn't enlightening any more than throwing paint at… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
During an interview, former President George W. Bush discussed his painting hobby and said, 'Never paint your wife or your mother.' Then… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
I guess you can be a supermodel today just by building followers. You don't necessarily have to do the work of going… — Amber Valletta Copy Share Image
It is so hard and long before a student comes to a realization that these [first] few large simple spots in right… — Charles Webster Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Collage is more than just an art style. Collage is all about bringing different elements together. Once you form a sensibility about… — Bryan Collier Copy Share Image
“—if a painting really works down in your heart and changes the way you see, and think, and feel, you don’t think,… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Don't worry if people think you're good. Make this your experience. And find out what makes you unique as an artist. You… — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
Art is never the voice of a country, it is an even more precious thing, the voice of the individual, doing its… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
I think people all over the institution recognize that different ways of understanding are valuable. Artists may think in a different way… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
From the start, I've always admired Eminem's thinking. That's the reason I wanted to appear on the Grammys with him when I… — Elton John Copy Share Image
To me, art is not a solitary delight. It is a means of stirring the greatest number of men by providing them… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The fact that all of us die anyway (the rumor turns out to be true) is a mere detail in the celestial… — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
This is the emotional thing, you see - you must galvanize people, so they want to be completely alive and live forever,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Whenever a dope artist comes out of nowhere, the first thing you do is try and compare it to stuff until you… — Bryson Tiller Copy Share Image
Maybe it's easier to have that desire guest-spot-packed album, for example, you're a rapper and you need someone to sing the hook.… — Yukimi Nagano Copy Share Image
As I paint, I realise, while it's something I do very much by myself, it's very solitary, the creative process feels similar… — Black Francis Copy Share Image
“It's a difficult path that we tread, us Indie self-publishers, but we're not alone. How many bands practicing in their dad’s garage… — Karl Wiggins Copy Share Image
More and more in the art world are becoming moralistic, telling artists and critics what they should and shouldn't write, do, or… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I just love expanding my horizons and growing as an artist. The only way you get to do that is by doing… — Vanessa Hudgens Copy Share Image
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Art is the expression of the conviction that we can have a rational relationship with the world and each other. It isn't… — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
Unless created as freestanding works, quotations resemble "found" art. They are analogous, say, to a piece of driftwood identified as formally interesting… — Gary Saul Morson Copy Share Image
While it may be a really trying, weird time for the art world, I see good work all the time. If you… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the… — Matthew Modine Copy Share Image
What I feel I can do is help people become aware of how pervasive and extensive the arts are, how they affect… — Joan Mondale Copy Share Image
I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
As I have continued to make music and progress as an artist, I think I am steadily getting better at expanding my… — Mike Stud Copy Share Image
I'm a good guy at the end of the day, you know what I'm saying? A lot of people will believe what… — Lil Durk Copy Share Image
'Brand-Dropping' is the term that the Kluger Agency coined to describe discreetly advertising by product mentioning in song, and we feel we… — Adam Kluger Copy Share Image
“A true great artist at heart never ceases to create, continuously amazes and keeps sharing his gift despite barriers, judgement, fears and… — Elizabeth E. Castillo Copy Share Image
Documentary is thought to be art when it transcends its reference to the world, when the work can be regarded, first and… — Allan Sekula Copy Share Image
When I was your age, art was a lonely thing: no galleries, no collecting, no critics, no money. We didn't have mentors.… — John Logan Copy Share Image
At a lecture, a guy said to me, "You know, when I look at your work, I don't know what I'm looking… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
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