There are two avenues from the little passions and the drear calamities of earth; both lead to the heaven and away from… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life, and it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I kind of had a quarter-life crisis before I did 'Rent.' I had done Glinda in 'Wicked' for a while. I had… — Annaleigh Ashford Copy Share Image
“Art then becomes a safety valve for the expression of individual and collective neuroses originating in the inability of coping with the… — Luis Camnitzer Copy Share Image
I was inspired by the marvelous example of Giacometti, the great sculptor. He always said that his dream was to do a… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Artworks are especially good at helping our psyches in a variety of ways: they rebalance our moods, lend us hope, usher in… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I'm often wary of using the word 'inspiration' to introduce my work -- it sounds too much like a sun shower from… — Shaun Tan Copy Share Image
A German officer visited Picasso in his Paris studio during the Second World War. There he saw Guernica and, shocked at the… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
My eyelashes are the bristles of a paintbrush. Painting my world with every fluttering blink. But, it's not about the portrait when… — Shyanne Cook Copy Share Image
I don't have a lot of pressure on myself to be successful. I'm more of an artist. I just try to make… — Dean Potter Copy Share Image
An artist is a prophet and seer, not a paint craftsman or design maker, or reporter or entertainer... the artist has the… — Morris Graves Copy Share Image
Mannerism always wants to be finished and doesn't enjoy the process. Genuine, truly great talent, however, finds its greatest satisfaction in the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If you accept the idea that photographers, or some of them, are actually artists, then you have to look at their work… — Tod Papageorge Copy Share Image
Planning is design. As a designer what I tend to do, and what's different from being a painter, is that I interact… — Paula Scher Copy Share Image
Everything about the music industry takes away from you as an artist. They're always wondering what the next thing is: 'What do… — Gary Allan Copy Share Image
At some point I realized that the text was the painting and that everything else was extraneous. The painting became the act… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
As I see it, the major requirements for a strong and able rendering are an understanding of a work's structure, voicing, and… — Michael Hersch Copy Share Image
Research is always a very necessary part of my process because all of my books to this point have been historical. Time… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
Financial independence could be one of the factors, but most 65 plus artistes in our industry wish to continue working for the… — Ashok Saraf Copy Share Image
Contemporary curators orbit in the place of distribution and consumption, and less and less in the space of artists. I think it… — Michelle Grabner Copy Share Image
Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it. Robert Motherwell Every man becomes, to a certain… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
I think probably the first time I wanted to be an artist was when I was about six or seven years old.… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
Just be comfortable. Sometimes, when open up for a bigger artist at a conventional concert, you can feel unwelcome. But when you're… — Vince Staples Copy Share Image
You can't get at the thing itself, the real nature of the sitter, by stripping away the surface. You can only get… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
“I didn't want painting to be simply an act of emphasizing one color to do something to another color, like using red… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
I like real art. It's difficult to define 'real' but it is the best word for describing what I like to get… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
“A nation which neglects the perceptions of its artists declines. After a while it ceases to act, and merely survives. There is… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Shepard Fairey, the street artist responsible for President Obama's 'Hope' poster, is now facing vandalism charges in Detroit. It's pretty serious. Detroit… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
“It's been said that the role of the artist is to teach us to see and that's true. However, the role of… — Brooks Jensen Copy Share Image
My drawings and paintings were done as an act of protest; I was trying by means of my work to convince the… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
There was very little art in my childhood. I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
My grandma, Edith, was one of the greatest inspirations in my life, both personally and professionally. She was an incredibly talented artist… — Jennifer Meyer Copy Share Image
I like to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' when I'd doing cardio. But, sometimes I do need good music to get me moving. I… — Alison Sweeney Copy Share Image
Probably my favorite artists to listen to James Taylor, Stevie Wonder - I haven't gone back in a really long time and… — Jonny Lang Copy Share Image
If you go to a master to study and learn the techniques, you diligently follow all the instructions the master puts upon… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
When the artist is truly the servant of the work, the work is better than the artist; Shakespeare knew how to listen… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Since I moved six or seven times the first year I was in New York, I had to be able to roll… — David Salle Copy Share Image
“The painting was food. He wanted to caress it, hold it in his hands, lick its glazed surface, plunge into it, dive… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
When contemplating a work of art it is possible to perceive if it has been created according to the eye or to… — Theo van Doesburg Copy Share Image
People all over the world know me as an Indian artist. I could have chosen any other country and wouldn't have had… — Adnan Sami Copy Share Image
