To give generously but appropriately and then, most difficult of all, and as the full apotheosis of the art, with feeling, in… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
In the end, we're just showmen. But, I think that it's an important factor. Not to be anything else but clear about… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
“Japanese things - laquers, netsuke, prints - conjure a picture of a place where sensations are always new, where art pours out… — Edmund de Waal Copy Share Image
I feel that if I had not had an art program in my school, I would have failed in a big way.… — David Small Copy Share Image
What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
Let there be no mincing of comparisons in this assertion. Not Turner, not Monet, painted so directly blinding shafts of sunlight as… — James Huneker Copy Share Image
The most interesting studio work, and perhaps the most practicable, is painting from pencil sketches and notes... It ensures the elimination of… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
I'm rarely grabbed by anything the way I was when I was 10 years younger. About the only relatively new artists whose… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
Think about what artists, novelists and poets have in common: the ability to engage in metaphorical thinking, linking seemingly unrelated ideas, such… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
It's absurd for anybody to look around and hear the acts and artists who cite us as an inspiration, and then tell… — Paul Stanley Copy Share Image
I can't make things I don't feel passionately about. I've never been able to. Years ago when I was going through college,… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
I first came across Dada at art school in the early 80s. It was funnier and more anarchic than anything else I… — Vic Reeves Copy Share Image
Art saved my life in two ways. It made me feel special, because I could do things my friends couldn't, but it… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
In 1951 I took my first art course. And one day I looked over my shoulder and there was this tall gentleman… — David C. Driskell Copy Share Image
“In these times there is a powerful demarcation between the surface and the deep currents of human development. Events and upheavals, which… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
“Works were expected to be microscopically accurate, properly ‘finished’ and formally framed, with proper perspective and all the familiar artistic conventions,” — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“I notice I may have somehow mixed up two events, my visit with Rita to Briceland on our way to Cantrip, and… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I think of art as a glue, a cultural and social glue. It's one of the means that has served to show… — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image
Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Burn shavings and splinters of pitch pine, and when they turn to charcoal, put them out, and pound them into mortar with… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
“We consume our art like moths. We gather, momentarily, around wherever the biggest, brightest light seems to be. So these days, the… — Michael Gungor Copy Share Image
And it's sad because it's like a surprise to people - almost an anomaly - when artists are actually refined and trained… — Vanessa Carlton Copy Share Image
“You have a masterpiece inside you, you know. One unlike any that has ever been created, or ever will be. If you… — Gordon MacKenzie Copy Share Image
“I am the eye that beholds... And I am the dreamer that paints the stars in the night sky... For I am… — Solange nicole Copy Share Image
“The transgressive quality of love is the transgressive quality of art ... From the Pre-Raphaelites till now, the avant-garde has always been… — Rod Dubey Copy Share Image
We're here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why even be here? We're creating a completely new consciousness, like an… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I feel my job as an artist is to drive people to country radio. That's my job as a country artist. So… — Garth Brooks Copy Share Image
“The industrialist (your boss, perhaps) demands that everything be proven, efficient, and risk free. The artist seeks none of these. The value… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for. It’s my… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
Sheer egoism... Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, soldiers, successful businessmen - in short, with the whole top crust… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
True art and true science possess two unmistakable marks: the first, an inward mark, which is this, that the servitor of art… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There's a point at which when I start to know a man well--this isn't true of women--I wonder whether there's something in… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
Each time I undertake to paint a picture I have a sensation of leaping into space. I never know whether I shall… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
There are many graphic artists who have interpreted The Ancient One as a Tibetan Buddhist Lama, we're kind of shifting that a… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
Each day is A New Canvas to Paint Upon. Make Sure your picture is full of Life and happiness. And At the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So right off, I'm going to have to say that a lot of people have been comparing Life Is Killing Me to… — Josh Silver Copy Share Image
Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures.… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I think everything in life is art. What you do. How you dress. The way you love someone, and how you talk.… — Helena Bonham Carter Copy Share Image
The technology can help the artist work in a different way and the artist also helps define what the technology should be.… — Christopher Kenneally Copy Share Image
I think that's becoming the key to where the whole idea of art and culture are going nowadays anyway, is the idea… — A-Trak Copy Share Image
