Leonard de Vinci, for example, is a great artist, but he is living in the past. However, I don't feel John Cage… — Yasumasa Morimura Copy Share Image
“Don't fret my dear. If art is translation of the ephemeral into observable form, then always remember that it is the translationn… — Jomny Sun Copy Share Image
I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Even if I weren't learning new roles and getting the opportunity to be coached by incredible people, I still think I would… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be an artist in the same place I worked. You could always have people that might feel like… — DJ Khaled Copy Share Image
A writer, or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has been given for an end.… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I used to flirt with fundamentalism, and I had this idea that creation was something that happened. Now I see creation as… — Michael Gungor Copy Share Image
I think the most important thing for an artist is to stay true to who you are. I want to stay as… — Daya Copy Share Image
The work of art still has something in common with enchantment: it posits its own, self-enclosed area, which is withdrawn from the… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
“Melissa popped open the clattery little Rotring tin. Pencils, putty rubber, scalpel. She sharpened a 3B, letting the curly shavings fall into… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Art- speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar but his art, if it be art, will tell… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
All things that are living are expression and therefore part of the inherent symbology of life. Art, therefore, that is encumbered with… — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
Everything about The Bradshaws is controversial, fluid, uncertain: their age - perhaps 30,000 years old, perhaps older, perhaps more recent - who… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as just a pop artist, but someone who knows she has a bigger meaning. I'm not doing… — Robyn Copy Share Image
Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in history, but they never taught Negro history in the public schools...I don't see how a history of… — Jacob Lawrence Copy Share Image
A work of (whatever) art can be either 'received' or 'used'. ...'Using' is inferior to 'reception' because art, if used rather than… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“An artist can do whatever the artist want. The work they do will not always be appreciated by all, but still it's… — Atle Jarnæs Lerøy Copy Share Image
That is how America gets her art: Contracting firms get the contract and the honor. Starving artists do the work. The government… — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
“In addition to his instinct for discerning patterns across disciplines, Leonardo honed two other traits that aided his scientific pursuits: an omnivorous… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Art is something you choose to make... it's a bringing together of... of everything around you into something that makes you more… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
I think it's harder than ever to be an artist. I think that you end up, especially as a middle-aged person, you… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
A lot of artists talk about getting out of their comfort zones and being the most proud of their newest album. But… — Michael Buble Copy Share Image
In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world.… — Luis Bunuel Copy Share Image
I do think I paid a price as an artist, and I am trying to make up for it now - I… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
Anybody who severs their own Achilles tendon, takes blood thinners to induce a hospital stay , or beats themselves with their fists… — Janice Erlbaum Copy Share Image
“The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I became an animal painter because I loved to move among animals. I would study an animal and draw it in the… — Rosa Bonheur Copy Share Image
When I stepped back from the gallery I was in a phase where I thought I wasn't going to be making work… — Kalup Linzy Copy Share Image
“But Italy worked some marvel in her. It gave her light, and – which he held more precious – it gave her… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
A journalist uses the most precise words he or she can. An artist does the same sort of thing. You gather material… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
I grew up really into comic books, and I actually thought I was going to be a comic-book artist. That was my… — Corey Stoll Copy Share Image
A great artist can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is ... and force the viewer to see… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
When you talk about painters and you talk about painters painting masterpieces, there is no painter who painted only one painting and… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Philosophers and aestheticians may offer elegant and profound definitions of art and beauty, but for the painter they are all summed up… — Gino Severini Copy Share Image
I don't believe in rushing and saying this is done and over with. That form of rebellion doesn't make sense to me.… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
The most important thing is that the work has to be solid [in terms of its formal structure] and that the work… — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
Combien de gens se font abstraits pour para?tre profonds! La plupart des termes abstraits sont des ombres qui cachent des vides. How… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
![“I've always been interested in history, but they never taught Negro history in the public schools...I don't see how a history of the United States can be written honestly without including the Negro. I didn't [paint] just as a historical thing, but because I believe these things tie up with the…” quote by Jacob Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/53f/jacob-lawrence-42624_artist_i-ve-always-been-interested-in-history-b_212404.jpg)
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