The impresario's job is to pick the right people who can pick the right people. He picks the people who can pick… — John Kao Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I looked at art as a way of blending everything. One of my favorite composers is Wagner… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
As an artist, the most important feeling is loneliness. So when I say artists need to isolate themselves from society this is… — Zhang Xiaogang Copy Share Image
As an artist, I move along in my life, into whatever things I'm doing, and I hear things where it's like, "Oh,… — Andy Summers Copy Share Image
“I sat there and my love to him poured out more and more, and, lo, he flew down to a stump, and… — Agnes Grinstead Anderson Copy Share Image
I think it's very important for writers and artists generally to be witnesses to the world, and to be transparent. To let… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“What is art? Art is tar, rearranged. Art is tar on canvas or tar on tarp or tar on a naked body.… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Usually when I'm painting something it takes a lot of focus. I have the room I go into called the white room.… — Autumn de Forest Copy Share Image
“When inspiration touches talent, she gives birth to truth and beauty. And when Steven Pressfield was writing The War of Art, she… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Many rules for the creation of colour schemes have been published in recent years, but, while they are popular in commercial studies,… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
I think that what most artists are trying to do is trying to understand. I think what distinguishes creative people and/or artists… — Brandon Boyd Copy Share Image
I feel like, in many ways, Billie Holiday's still very under-appreciated as an artist. People focus on her voice, and all of… — Jose James Copy Share Image
The world of contemporary art has, in a way, exponentially expanded in the last couple of decades, and almost every major city… — Thomas Heatherwick Copy Share Image
You can't really judge an actor's abilities by their career, because the business is going to pigeonhole people into whatever turns a… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
I never learned management. I never went to business school. I'm an artist. I happened to have really clear ideas of what… — Bobbi Brown Copy Share Image
I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not… — Maria Callas Copy Share Image
It is impossible to repeat in one period what was done in another.The pointof view isnotthesame, anymorethan are the tools, the ideals,… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
You can stick with a few clear-cut values, which are stronger than a multitude of values and will obviously yield a stronger… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
First you have to spread on the rust performer, then you add a coat of protective enamel, and then you spray on… — Vinny Testaverde Copy Share Image
In the context of a question regarding what an artist might be, I would want to raise the question of what a… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
One thing that I do want to say is Drake, as an artist, anybody has to respect him. He's in the game,… — Ski Mask the Slump God Copy Share Image
Celebrity hits like a bomb. So you have to find what makes you stable in the storm. Then, no matter what's happening… — Jimmy Smits Copy Share Image
I have to be really honest: People who say they can't escape the paparazzi are full of sh*t. Let me just be… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
My favorite song I ever wrote is 'Yeah 3x' because it was my first placement. It was with a great artist, Chris… — Sevyn Streeter Copy Share Image
I didn't see painters doing paintings of glassware and glass shelves or sand dunes and receding snow fences. Why does that interest… — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
Maybe the way we have learned to look has changed in the last 25 years, and the exotic is much more acceptable.… — Anish Kapoor Copy Share Image
I don't think there's anything really wrong with influence because I think that one can use another man's art as material either… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
“When art is made new, we are made new with it. We have a sense of solidarity with our own time, and… — John Russell Copy Share Image
I'm a sponge, the more I absorb, the more I am able to articulate my vision, as artists do, like Picasso. I'm… — Usher Copy Share Image
The artist is the lowest form of life on the rung of the ladder. The publishers are usually businessmen who deal with… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
I made the flames lick the surface of the painting in such a way that is recorded the spontaneous traces of the… — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
Collage is the noble conquest of the irrational, the coupling of two realities, irreconcilable in appearance, upon a plane which apparently does… — Max Ernst Copy Share Image
“And later in the letter, he elaborated further, "It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I always want to be doing both to travel as a teacher and lecturer, and to be a musician. I think in… — Jonathan Batiste Copy Share Image
“After the dazzling orgies in form and color of the eighteenth century, art was put on a diet, and allowed nothing but… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Hey, I’m an art lover,” protested Ramirez. “I love Thomas Kinkade. Painter of Light, you know what I’m sayin’?” Beverly’s smile froze.… — Linda Morris Copy Share Image
'Biutiful' is a tough film. It doesn't make concessions to the vulgarity of light entertainment. It's not the kind of film that… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
“The years lay spread out before her, spacious untouched canvases on which she was presently going to paint the picture of her… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
I'm a comic book artist. So I think to myself, what do I like to draw? I like to draw hot chicks,… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image