“The great art of life is to moderate our passions. Objects of affection are like other belongings. We must love them enough… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Nothing in the objective world is as "secure and unshakeable" as it appears to our conscious minds. We should accept nothing as… — Kasimir Malevich Copy Share Image
The artist is one who makes a concentrated statement about the world in which he lives and that statement tends to become… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
This is something essential to art: reception is never its goal. What counts for me is that my work provides material to… — Thomas Hirschhorn Copy Share Image
All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion… — Alberto Giacometti Copy Share Image
I have a studio in the country - in the woods - but my paintings look more real to me than what… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
I have absolutely no interest in rock and roll. I'm just being David Bowie. Mick Jagger is rock and roll. I mean,… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
“People take for granted what is in fact an art. To live well, to live comfortably by one’s own standards takes a… — Kathleen Tessaro Copy Share Image
“Don't talk to me about Matisse the European style of 1900, the tradition of the studio where the nude style woman reclines… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Art has the power to influence and to make you react to something that you normally wouldn't concern, worry, or even think… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
Think about it: you've already related it down to something that somebody else can understand. If art relates to something - it's… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
It takes so much effort to make anything, any type of art. I try to find the good in everything; if I… — Kate Herron Copy Share Image
I can go to parties all the time and not see people I want to work with, but then sometimes I do,… — Will Cotton Copy Share Image
Pop Art is industrial painting. I think the meaning of my work is that it is industrial, it's what all the world… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense… — Beverly Sills Copy Share Image
“The other day, when I was deciding where to place a mountain range, how to make a river's flow detour around underground… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Reggae was always a passion of mine. I used to say in interviews that I would love to do a reggae album.… — Heavy D Copy Share Image
I'm definitely obsessed about artists and the type of music and the playing and the tone and all that kind of thing… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
I'm very fortunate in that my parents are artists. My mom is a brilliant poet... She still is a great visual artist.… — Ari Aster Copy Share Image
I think seeing is about truly looking, observing, and taking things in with an open mind. It's easy to see things at… — Chloe Wise Copy Share Image
All great stars are competitive. That's a sign of a true artist - if you don't have the fire of competition deep… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
In abandoning the vagueness of the sketch the artist shows more of his personality by revealing the range but also the limitations… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Chivalry, stimulating conversations, everything is said to be a lost art nowadays. But nothing is a lost art, unless its a sunken… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
If you get to participate with a group of artists and make something that's really truthful, that's about the highest you can… — James Tupper Copy Share Image
It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group… — Brooke Shields Copy Share Image
No one can say if you are that person who, given good paint, good brushes, and a fine canvas, can produce something… — David Wroblewski Copy Share Image
“Caleb Omotunde, a versatile artist with a passion for creativity. Alongside his writing career, he is an accomplished painter, capturing the essence… — Caleb Omotunde Copy Share Image
I made my first trip west of the Hudson and it was a revelation. The naked musculature of the Rockies was overpowering… — Elaine de Kooning Copy Share Image
Collage is a demonstration of the many becoming the one, with the one never fully resolved because of the many that continue… — Donald Kuspit Copy Share Image
I have tons of regrets, but I think that's one of the reasons that push people to create things. Out of their… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
When I was younger and obsessed with becoming an artist, the hospital was my New York loft apartment. I would move the… — Claire Wineland Copy Share Image
As a child I prayed that my calling be revealed - but not with expectation and not with a destination. I became… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
Some people think that Southern hip-hop doesn't have any depth. They think it's just noise, all about people having a good time… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
“You are the only judge of whether a piece of art is a piece of art! It’s the average man who is… — Michael Savage Copy Share Image
There is no question that the US market is the hardest to break into. I believe that the reason for this primarily… — Wendy Starland Copy Share Image
Trauma happens in relationships, so it can only be healed in relationships. Art can't provide healing. It can be cathartic and therapeutic… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
The relationship with a producer and an artist is really special.It's got to be love and respect, amazing mutual respect for each… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
