I would say if you are familiar with our history and the history of our art and literature that you see a… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
When I did The Umbrella Academy, I studied Gabriel Bá's art. I said, "Oh, this is what he likes to do here.… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
“Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Philosophy and the arts are but a manifestation of the intelligible ideas that move the public mind; and thus they become visible… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
I really wasn't about to get a Ph.D. in art history, you know, which you'd absolutely needed. And that was not something… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
In the silence of their studios, busied for days at a time with works which leave the mind relatively free, painters become… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Vision, Uncertainty, and Knowledge of Materials are inevitabilities that all artists must acknowledge and learn from: vision is always ahead of execution,… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
“Watching the painter painting And all the time, the light is changing And he keeps painting That bit there, it was an… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
Believe me, I grow daily more convinced that the atmosphere is an inexhaustible source of countless beauties. It is up to we… — Mario de Sa-Carneiro Copy Share Image
Maybe we didn't even have a chance. The message of American Pop Art was so powerful and so optimistic. But it was… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I mean, the idea that it might help somebody out or help somebody make the decision to become a stewardess or otherwise...… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
The power of nature is what all art strives to be. The more we can get in tune with the harmony of… — Rick Rubin Copy Share Image
“Artists who painted natural curiosities found themselves documenting a world emerging and disappearing at the same time, a brief encounter as species… — Kim Todd Copy Share Image
I am convinced the most unfortunate people are those who would make an art of love. It sours other effort. Of all… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
One thing that really interests me is-and it comes out of Chinese and Japanese painting-where you have a number of different kinds… — Mary Heilmann Copy Share Image
I don't have an image of myself, when I'm walking down the street, like I'm a rock star or something. I'm a… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Anyone can write. Some people can write a bit better than others; they're called authors. Then there are some who can write… — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
“So perhaps the reason I shuddered at the idea of writing something about 'Christian art' is that to paint a picture or… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I realized that was what was happening in my work already. I think that's where, as artists, we begin to master our… — Kalup Linzy Copy Share Image
I buy based on emotion, because I am fascinated with an object that I simply cannot live without. Although I often end… — Michael Audain Copy Share Image
If you see a wonderful archaic Greek marble object in a museum, it's not only that it's beautiful, but what comes to… — Michael Steinhardt Copy Share Image
In the past, traditional art was based on making manifest what is enduring in man, like love, jealousy, hatred, envy, and greed...… — Tawfiq al-Hakim Copy Share Image
Pele featured in the Brazilophile imaginary as the a figure of non-utile excess, a carefree artist in the Nietzschean sense, indifferent to… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
“Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I thought it was a wonderfully conceptual act actually, to fire a replica pistol at a figurehead - the guy could have… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“How does a copy become more than a copy? Is art the creation of something new and original, or simply the continuous… — Madeleine Thien Copy Share Image
I think the Internet gives too much for a young artist to compare themselves too. I'm not sure that "notes" or "likes"… — Liz Prince Copy Share Image
I honestly think that it was when the actual voices started to stand up for me. It was the iconic artists like… — Michael Buble Copy Share Image
Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
There are moments in time when the coincidence of art and reality interact to allow us a glimpse into the context of… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
Every separate sector of artistic creation has its own basic rules . . . data which govern it. They are contained in… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
What seems most significant to me about our movement is that we have freed painting from the importance of the subject. I… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
Everything is starting to make a little more sense to me now. I love the idea that, first of all when I… — Courtney Jaye Copy Share Image
The time has passed for our sensations in painting to be whispered. We wish them in the future to sing and re-echo… — Umberto Boccioni Copy Share Image
It is most certainly a good thing that the world knows only the beautiful opus but not its origins, not the conditions… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
I'm old fashioned. I really think you should know how to draw before you start painting. I use charcoal and graphite; I… — Peter Falk Copy Share Image
Why spend the afternoon making a meal that will be gone in an hour," she'd ask us, "when in the same amount… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
“Eminent doctors warned against Munch's Pointillist canvas, Spring Day on Karl Johan, counselling that looking at such pictures brought on spotty conditions… — Sue Prideaux Copy Share Image
Those arts which are, to be sure, not finite, as geometry and arithmetic, do not suffer adornment; others, contrarily, are rather subject… — Gerolamo Cardano Copy Share Image
