The simple truth is that being a creative artist takes courage; it’s not a job for the faint of heart. It takes… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
In Comme des Garçons, I hardly do any sketches; there's no fittings on bodies, there's no models that come in and say,… — Rei Kawakubo Copy Share Image
How are we going to make painters by lecturing to them? We are going to make questioners, doubters, and talkers. We are… — William Morris Hunt Copy Share Image
Western artists stand as humans looking at nature; Asian artists try to be in nature. You become one with nature rather than… — Brice Marden Copy Share Image
When you're an artist, nobody ever tells you or hits you with the magic wand of legitimacy. You have to hit your… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
If God dislikes gays so much, how come he picked Michelangelo, a known homosexual, to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling while assigning… — Mike Royko Copy Share Image
The so-called "secondary market" has also always been something that I'm comfortable with. I'm not a dealer who turns his nose up… — Larry Gagosian Copy Share Image
It is often we come the closest to the essence of an artist... in his or her pocket notebooks and travel sketchbooks...… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
In my teens I fancied myself an artist; I hung out with the eccentric art teacher at my high school, painted still… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“Ask for the grace to let God continue to sculpt or paint me in different images. Those images (good & bad) make… — Melissa Regas Copy Share Image
Local television shows do not, in general, supply make-up artists. The exception to this is Los Angeles, an unusually generous city in… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation… — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
“Despite all the admiration M. Swann might profess for these figures of Giotto, it was a long time before I could find… — Proust Marcel Copy Share Image
The darling schemes and fondest hopes of man are frequently frustrated by time. While sagacity contrives, patience matures, and labor industriously executes,… — Timothy Dwight V Copy Share Image
I know now that he who hopes to be universal in his art must plant in his own soil. Great art is… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
I'm so used to being behind the scenes. I didn't really want to be front and center. One of the elements of… — Arthur Fogel Copy Share Image
“If what you want is the effect of painting, then paint, Aurora. If what you want is truth, learn to use your… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work on the proceeds, is the most familiar… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Art and society was a lot more subject to sexism 50 years ago than it is now. Since that period, there have… — Matthew Slotover Copy Share Image
Despite the fact that I'm not highly skilled in any visual art, aesthetics have always played a strong role in my art,… — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
There is that elementary principle of organization in any art that nothing gets in anything else's way, and everything is at its… — Fairfield Porter Copy Share Image
Many people decorate their homes with designer graffiti, even though most of them would probably have real graffiti scoured off the walls… — Brad Holland Copy Share Image
Few artists are able to accurately assess just how valuable and great their work is - or how much it will be… — Suzanne Falter-Barns Copy Share Image
Almost every work of art is an analogy. When I make a representation of something, this too is an analogy to what… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Refined and delicate natures understand the cat. Women, poets, and artists hold it in great esteem, for they recognize the exquisite delicacy… — Champfleury Copy Share Image
Making a judgment, taking a stand and then acting against an injustice or acting to support excellence is the stuff of the… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
This art of conservation is strength, and makes the masterpiece a masterpiece. Otherwise, the man who simply brought all the different colors… — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
In the studio, it took me a long time to work out how to make paintings that had the intensity that I… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
After I left college I thought, very naively, that either you became someone interesting - an artist - or you went into… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
A person taking stock in middle age is like an artist or composer looking at an unfinished work; but whereas the composer… — Harry S. Broudy Copy Share Image
I don't know Prince's music like the back of my hand, but I was always a fan of him as an artist… — Amine Copy Share Image
“To the artist, all problems of art appear uniquely personal. Well, that's understandable enough, given that not many other activities routinely call… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
I don't think it's wise to manufacture a painting, just for the sake of working... if the impulse isn't truly there, the… — Scott Kahn Copy Share Image
Before people outside of the Western European tradition started asking to be in there, the people who were accumulating objects for the… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
The biggest challenge for any craft person or artist is to accept the constraints of their medium and make something beautiful despite… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
“Rank asked why the artist so often avoids clinical neurosis when he is so much a candidate for it because of his… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
Perfectionism kills art. I find that if I criticise myself, it spoils the fun. You can get paralysed by analysis - it… — Geri Halliwell Copy Share Image
We called [the] process photomontage, because it embodied our refusal to play the part of the artist. We regarded ourselves as engineers,… — Raoul Hausmann Copy Share Image
I feel I'm the most reallest black artist in England 'cause I give it to you how it is, whether I'm embarrassed… — Mark Morrison Copy Share Image
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