The danger for any artist whose work is both recognizable and critically acclaimed is complacent repetition - the temptation to churn out… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Proficiency in art is a contract with your self and the empowerment of your self. Not all of us demand or even… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
I feel like I've got the skills to be at the top, I feel like I've got the mind-state, so basically what… — SonReal Copy Share Image
Science begins with the world we have to live in, accepting its data and trying to explain its laws. From there, it… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Great sculptors and artists spend countless hours perfecting their talents. They don't pick up a chisel or a brush and palette, expecting… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
I'm not a haiku artist, but I wanted to use the phrase 5, 7, 5 in the melody that flows over time.… — Terry Bozzio Copy Share Image
A lot of what I do is about being in the moment and I think that's hard for people to get. I… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
Some people feel that it's controversial if I say that because my dad is known as a political artist. But I don't… — Sean Lennon Copy Share Image
He paints for the blind, and we are the blind, and he lets us see for sure what we saw long ago… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
If artists slowly learn how their business works, they'll have the ability to grow at any rate they can dream up, but… — Tom DeLonge Copy Share Image
My favorite thing as a performing artist is to get a pile of raw material from a writer who says, 'Will you… — Alice Ripley Copy Share Image
If Kubrick had lived to see the opening of his final film, he obviously would have been disappointed by the hostile reactions.… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
I hate darkness. Claude Monet once said that painting in general did not have light enough in it. I agree with him.… — Joaquin Sorolla Copy Share Image
“Why not paint your own sky, and not leave it to others to add colour to your canvas? Why not take the… — Michelle Geaney Copy Share Image
In drawing after drawing, pastel after pastel, painting after painting, the contours of Degas's dancing figures become, at a certain point, darkly… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“Artistocrats were a queer lot - marrying for money, staying with spouses they couldn’t stand, living by all manner of foolish rules.… — Kady Cross Copy Share Image
I am a very big fan of Brian Eno, of his work as an artist and making his music, and as a… — Rostam Batmanglij Copy Share Image
Right before I got 'Sons of Anarchy,' I actually quit acting for 18 months and didnt read a single script, and I… — Charlie Hunnam Copy Share Image
I was only to see Mr. Chaplin once after 'The Kid.' A great artist, one of the greatest, but I'm afraid I… — Jackie Coogan Copy Share Image
“What lasts? What lasts? What lasts? What lasts? What lasts? And so he stares for an hour or so at all her… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
I've been very fortunateit's just been an amazing piece of luck. I haven't had to suffer for my art but I've suffered… — Christopher Plummer Copy Share Image
Christian art is the expression of the whole life of the whole person as a Christian. What a Christian portrays in his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A really intelligent man makes an indifferent painter. For painting requires a certain blindness, a partial refusal to be aware of all… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
For hundreds of years people have talked about artists having inspiration, but often, some persons would say, write us a symphony or… — Tom Glazer Copy Share Image
I've been painting off and on since I was in sixth grade. I don't paint when I'm acting - I'm not really… — Michelle Pfeiffer Copy Share Image
“Through its creative power, art may trigger approximation, reconciliation and harmonization between individuals and peoples. Through art, beings can meet and exchange… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
I have said as much as that the aim of art was to destroy the curse of labour by making work the… — William Morris Copy Share Image
To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of… — Frank Auerbach Copy Share Image
“Whether it means producing a piece of art, writing a short story, or simply bringing beauty into our home or into the… — Mary Potter Kenyon Copy Share Image
I don't think geometric art is... I don't like to call it that. I don't think it's any more pure than pop… — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
“Art shows what's inside. And that's scary. Showing my paintings would be like...like cutting my arm open in front of a crowd… — Christina Daley Copy Share Image
My actual desire is to be able to comfortably walk out of my house without any makeup on and feel as beautiful… — Yvonne Orji Copy Share Image
I really don't have a theme when I start a sculpture. The rock guides me to the final sculpture. I think that… — Jimmy Carl Black Copy Share Image
I don't wait on the music industry to qualify me or give me my paycheck. I go about my business as an… — Perry Farrell Copy Share Image
I've found from years of trial that the only way I can work is to make sketches in pencil from Nature, purely… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
That's all I ever wanted to do in my life was music. And because I was a failed artist, I was actually… — Troy Carter Copy Share Image
The synergy created from clothing, hair, and makeup combined is truly amazing, so makeup has been, is, and will be a key… — Lee Tae-min Copy Share Image
“Richard Papen: As it happened, I knew Gartrell. He was a bad painter and a vicious gossip, with a vocabulary composed almost… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Picasso's superhuman gift for draftsmanship might have made him lazy about pursuing the full potential of color. It was not unusual for… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
I went through about six or seven painting methods just to see what I didn't want to do. And then I got… — Agnes Denes Copy Share Image
