Personally I would like to have pupils, a studio, pass on my love to them, work with them, without teaching them anything..… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
I am a leader, so leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got… — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
“The problem: If you've an antique for sale, then, sad to relate, the world isn't your oyster. It's not that easy. Even… — Jonathan Gash Copy Share Image
Pablo Picasso said, "Art is the lie that tells the truth," and it's not a terribly radical statement. It's always been that… — Momus Copy Share Image
It's such a phenomenon for a hip-hop artist to fully embrace his Christian roots and his faith. And that becomes something that… — LeCrae Copy Share Image
Every artist says that he/she wants to do something challenging, and I'm not any different. If someone approaches me with a serious… — Kapil Sharma Copy Share Image
I was working within a figurative representational framework, and there was a sense of reading the painting as a transparency, or truth,… — Chitra Ganesh Copy Share Image
“On a dais in a London church, the Virgin Mary sits suprised by a rough crest of candlelight. The discomforture isn't in… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
I refuse to be one of those artists who, 10 years from now, they're bitter about the rise and the fall of… — Luke Bryan Copy Share Image
If you are a plumber, there is an objective way to establish whether you put together a great piping system or not.… — Maurizio Cattelan Copy Share Image
I have an idea of a set of colors and see what I have. A lot of things, the best, more magical… — John Lurie Copy Share Image
I didn't start doing graffiti until two years after I got to New York. Jean Michel Basquiat was one of my main… — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
In printmaking, I essentially use the same process as in painting with one important exception ... to try, with sensitivity to the… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
It's a good note for any young hopeful in this business to take: study up and make sure you are informed at… — Tisha Campbell-Martin Copy Share Image
Usually the amateur is defined as an immature state of the artist: someone who cannot — or will not — achieve the… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled… — Fay Godwin Copy Share Image
“So long as a canvas is empty its potential is infinite… The empty canvas can become a gateway into the landscape of… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
I think in the end there is one ultimate goal with all my careers, and that is, as a performing artist, you… — Audra McDonald Copy Share Image
The paralysis that we have right now when we think about migration is partly because we can't imagine what the world would… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Throughout history, the arts and humanities have helped men and women around the globe grapple with the most challenging questions and come… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
You can trade money for other good things and that's nice, but it's not the first thing that matters to me. I'm… — Demian Maia Copy Share Image
Art brings people back to their sensibility as human beings. This is the purpose of art: To bring people together and bring… — eL Seed Copy Share Image
Meeting and talking to the artist adds a special element to collecting contemporary art that makes the work an irreplaceable treasure rather… — Ernest West Basden Copy Share Image
“Every day I meet people who have so much to give but have been bullied enough or frightened enough to hold it… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
My concern today is with the painting of manners of the present. The past is interesting not only by reason of the… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Great works of art can be produced in barbarous societies - in fact the very narrowness of primitive society gives their ornamental… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
I think that I have grown a lot as an artist. I have been writing about my experiences of love and overcoming… — Jessica Sanchez Copy Share Image
I want to be remembered as an artist that gave you a piece of me, as opposed to some surface bullshit. I… — Drake Copy Share Image
One of the most gratifying things I get as an artist is when people watch me do these different demonstrations, and they… — Criss Angel Copy Share Image
So much of the hubris that surrounded conceptual art in the 1950s through '70s was that it had this arrogant presupposition that… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning. An art school is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are… — Madeleine Peyroux Copy Share Image
If people want insights, if they want to swim in the currents of their own time and share the experiences of their… — Michael Hersch Copy Share Image
I think that designers have an incredibly broad creative repertoire. They solve. They create images of perfection for any number of clients.… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
If you're drawing a Western town, you can duplicate that Western town from instinct alone. Some artists may take it from other… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
I think for an artist it's really important to have experiences, and I've had a lot of those. It's definitely inspired my… — Neon Hitch Copy Share Image
“Like it!” I exclaimed. “It is lovely — wonderful! It is worthy to rank with the finest Italian masterpieces.” “Oh, no!” remonstrated… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
Art criticism everywhere is now at a low ebb, intellectually corrupt, swamped in meaningless jargon, distorted by political correctitudes, anxiously addressed only… — Brian Sewell Copy Share Image
Let's look at people as artists and try to support them; just because Picasso painted a couple of bad paintings, that's no… — Steve Guttenberg Copy Share Image
I think art is a healing force, and if we give in to the joy that can be found in art, then… — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
