The first idea, the first art piece I ever did, was when I was four. I cut the seed of a pear… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
Our appreciation of folk art will strengthen our identities, our pride in belonging to a community. People trained in the creative use… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
“The advantage of having an artistic tradition is that the younger artist could see an organic link between the real life of… — Kuo Pao Kun Copy Share Image
Every single painting is different. I'm always trying to figure out what I'm interested in. Usually when I go through and I… — Damian Loeb Copy Share Image
I literally make music for my wife and my friends. I don't feel beholden to my fans. I don't even really know… — Ben Lee Copy Share Image
Art is so valuable that I think its misuse is really dangerous. When it's used well, when it's telling a story well… — Asia Kate Dillon Copy Share Image
Art can help a town by attracting a certain Bohemian population that adds life to the bars, character to the streets and… — Evan Davis Copy Share Image
Realism and Naturalism rely mostly on the eye of the flesh. Abstract, conceptual and surrealistic art rely mostly on the eye of… — Alex Grey Copy Share Image
Everyone will be compelled to see that which is optically true, is explicable in its own terms, is objective, before he can… — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Copy Share Image
To conquer a piece of earth and make it as beautiful as one can dream of it being: That is art, too.… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
All good art is in the nature of a letter written to amuse a sick friend. Too much art, particularly in our… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe. I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
“The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself. The fools who write articles about me… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything?… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I can’t worry too much about the everyday things. Otherwise I’d lose touch with my own world, that helps me as an… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
Everyone knows of the talking artists. Throughout all of the known history of the world they have gathered in rooms and talked.… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“You can be an anonymous observer all your life, but then you never get the platform to transform those observations into art,… — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
There was a school in Chicago called the School of Design. This was started by [Laszló] Moholy-Nagy, and it was a wonderful… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
I think that every artist - or anybody that's in business - could benefit from a direct-to-consumer strategy, so I think that… — Nipsey Hussle Copy Share Image
I think a good painting or a good work of art does many things it wants, I mean, maybe 15 or 20… — David Salle Copy Share Image
If I paint a hammer and sickle people may think it is a representation of Communism, but for me it is only… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
It's tough when you're an artist because you get to go around the world and make a lot of friends, but guess… — Flying Lotus Copy Share Image
I am an actor. I am an artist. I am a daughter. I am a sister. I am a partner. I have… — Sasha Grey Copy Share Image
The one thing I never get involved with is selecting art or pictures for a client. This is a very personal thing.… — Albert Hadley Copy Share Image
“Oh, my dear fellow, if you want to be a gentleman you must give up being an artist. They’ve got nothing to… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Whoever accepts the higher mission of art and comes nearer and nearer to it through his creative activity, will then go on… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
If we marvel at the artist who has written a great book, we must marvel more at those people whose lives are… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Since the age of six I have had the habit of sketching forms of objects. Although from about fifty I have often… — Hokusai Copy Share Image
For - to say a few words on technique - whereas the curved line was used predominantly for reasons of beauty, (Phidias,… — Theo van Doesburg Copy Share Image
I think the idea of the lone tormented artist - which we can apply to others - I think that it needs… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“To a very strange lizard, found by the gardener of the Belvedere, he [Leonardo] fastened some wings with a mixture of quicksilver… — Girogio Vasari Copy Share Image
Artists are visionaries. We routinely practice a form of faith, seeing clearly and moving toward a creative goal that shimmers in the… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“The more one suffered and lived, the more one had known of joy and grief, the deeper the response must be if… — Rachel Field Copy Share Image
Those who are concerned with the arts are often asked questions, not always sympathetic ones, about the use or value of what… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
The really cool thing about reggae music is that I can get away with saying spiritual things as a reggae influenced artist… — Dominic Balli Copy Share Image
Sometimes we forget that if we do not encourage new work now, we will lose all touch with the work of the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I suppose that really I had a training or education not so very different from a lot of other artists and illustrators… — Quentin Blake Copy Share Image
Human nature is full of riddles and contradictions; its very complexity engenders art-and by art I mean the search for something more… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
As an artist development platform, we've proven that all the work done behind the scenes at American Idol, along with surviving the… — Scott Borchetta Copy Share Image
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