No one purposefully paints a bad painting. It's someone who's trying to do a good painting, but it's terrible. I have one… — Jennifer Coolidge Copy Share Image
Theater, art, literature, cinema, press, posters, and window displays must be cleansed of all manifestations of our rotting world and placed in… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The adventure of composition is a mystery. The muse has her ways, she hides from you, comes for you in the middle… — Mickey Hart Copy Share Image
While it is true that commercial art is always in danger of ending up as a prostitute, it is equally true that… — Erwin Panofsky Copy Share Image
I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or… — Katharine Hepburn Copy Share Image
The arts were like, there's no opponent. It's just yourself. I'm not saying they don't make the arts a competition with awards… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
Restoration is a skilled profession. You might even call it an art in its own right, except that it is frowned on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What stop-motion does best is present real objects magically brought to life in a very imperfect situation; the hand of the artist… — Henry Selick Copy Share Image
I think as an actor, or any artist, you move with your moods and you express what's going on for you, and… — Guy Pearce Copy Share Image
Robert Crumb is an influence on how I draw, but not on the subject matter I take or my approach. One thing… — Joe Sacco Copy Share Image
I think that once you're able to sort of get in line with who and how you relate to the world, you'll… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
O painter skilled in anatomy, beware lest the undue prominence of the bones, sinews and muscles cause you to become a wooden… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I was addicted to rhythm 'n' blues pretty much directly into folk music. I had my little 45s of mostly black artists.… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
No one wants my painting because it is different from other people's peculiar, crazy public that demands the greatest possible degree of… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Back in the early days like for the Temptations, Supremes and Four Tops, artist development was alive in record companies. Every artist… — Laurieann Gibson Copy Share Image
There was a period there where I was like, "No, no, no, this is crazy. I don't want to take any more… — James Pearse Connelly Copy Share Image
I felt most beautiful on the red carpet in Givenchy's sheer lace dress at a dinner hosted by Givenchy in honor of… — Joan Smalls Copy Share Image
What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The society to which we belong seems to be dying or is already dead. I don't mean to sound dramatic, but clearly… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Science and art,... they seek the truth and the meaning of life, they seek God, [and] the soul, and when they are… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“The subjectivist approach to art simply fails to understand that the subjective experience of art in itself is meaningless, and that in… — Theodor W. Adorno Copy Share Image
You know, it's just like being a peddler. You want two breasts? Well, here you are -- two breasts. We must see… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I helped found Artists for New South Africa, but it used to be called Artists for Free South Africa. Alfre Woodard and… — Mary Steenburgen Copy Share Image
Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums. Graffiti has more chance of meaning something… — Banksy Copy Share Image
“I do believe most curators - maybe I'm only speaking for myself here - want to be artists on some level. Curators… — Marion Boulton Stroud Copy Share Image
Jimmy [Dean] was the most talented and original actor I ever saw work. He was also a guerrilla artist who attacked all… — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
“Art is neither good nor bad, but a clairvoyant vision of the nature of both, and any attempt to align it with… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“How a painter treats this edge is the real subject of realist painting; how the brush behaves in the vicinity of an… — David Salle Copy Share Image
In Giacometti's work, the armature has once again become the life-line of the sculpture, and also, he's brought back to sculpture a… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
“Any artist who fails to engage with society and the vulnerability of the individual in a cruel existence should not style him-or… — Lena Andersson Copy Share Image
The most important quality of art and its aim is illusion; emotion, which is often obtained by certain sacrifices of poetic detail,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
It is not about surpassing the masters who preceded us but more about opening new artistic vistas. It is about doing the… — Liu Dan Copy Share Image
In his very rejection of art Walt Whitman is an artist. He tried to produce a certain effect by certain means and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In a way, my paintings are like my children. They have many possibilities in life. You tell them, 'I believe that you're… — Norbert Bisky Copy Share Image
Like it or not, people tend to buy paintings to match their drapes, couch or carpet. I know you want them to… — Jack White Copy Share Image
I love the art history ones because it's so little work for me. There's so many paintings that when I look at… — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
I was lucky to work with some of the big names such as Anu Malik, Himesh Reshammiya, Sajid Wajid, Salim Sulaiman, Mithoon,… — Tulsi Kumar Copy Share Image
Try to sing exactly like an artist you hear, and then all of the sudden, you'll feel what it feels like if… — Laura Bell Bundy Copy Share Image
If you follow nature you will not be able to vanquish the tragic in any real degree in your art... We must… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
The new Galliano will be even bigger and better... I love working, it's my therapy. I can draw until four in the… — John Galliano Copy Share Image
![“Science and art,... they seek the truth and the meaning of life, they seek God, [and] the soul, and when they are harnessed to passing needs and activities,... then they only complicate and encumber life.” quote by Anton Chekhov](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/dad/anton-chekhov-298_art_science-and-art-they-seek-the-truth-and_3128148.jpg)
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