The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to… — Mencius Copy Share Image
I was a high school student like Picasso. I was a little eccentric, but I had high ideals. I wanted to get… — Usamaru Furuya Copy Share Image
Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
The U.K. is so important to me. It's everything - it's my home. I love America, but it's so important for me… — Sam Smith Copy Share Image
“I did exhibitions with the Surrealists (in Paris, in 1929) because their attitude revolted against 'art' and their attitude toward life itself… — Lepota L. Cosmo Copy Share Image
We've done this before in other worlds, in other lives. It is our strength, law, medicine, entertainment, and computers, the networking of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“He wanted to be an artist, an artist of life wasn't enough for him, although precisely this concept provides everything we need… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
And with this sort of increased visibility, there's more money going around in the industry, and it changes a lot, in terms… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
Artists and scientists both think outside the box. They've got to come with genius experiments or ideas to expose the most interesting… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
I didn't know anything about conceptual art when I left Kansas. I went to Cal Arts to be a painter, but the… — David Salle Copy Share Image
“The businessman who wishes to gain a market by throttling a superior competitor, the worker who wants a share of his employer's… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I feel cleaner on the days where I am painting as opposed to the periods when I am not, that is certain… — John Lurie Copy Share Image
I don't want to think too much about how I'm carving and what I'm carving - you are just carving away the… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
An artist fights to retain the integrity of a work so that it remains a strong, clear vision. Art is and should… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the space between the viewer and the surface of the painting - the forms and the way they work… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
I just want to kind of tackle every kind of form that exists in the comedy world; whether it be stand-up or… — Pauly Shore Copy Share Image
How terribly hard and almost impossible it is to tell the truth. More than anything else, the artist in us prevents us… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Do not hate or fear the artist in yourselves... Honor and love him...do not try to possess him. Trust him as nobly… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
Working a model liberated me from ever having to hold a day job. I transitioned from doing that to working full-time as… — Molly Crabapple Copy Share Image
Since the industrial revolution, cities, and especially the inner cities, were the places for the newly arrived. Voluntary immigrants seeking economic betterment,… — Cleve Jones Copy Share Image
“The deflation, or flattening out, of values in Modern art does not necessarily indicate an ethical nihilism. Quite the contrary; in opening… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
Art has no cosmology, it gives us no view of the universe; every distinct work of art gives us a little cosmology… — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
There is force and vitality in a first sketch from life which the after-work rarely has. You want a picture to seize… — William Morris Hunt Copy Share Image
I think it was Roger Fry who first coined what he took to be a final definition of a work of art,… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
It is not the natural movement of film that gives the objects their expression, but the artistic movement, that is to say,… — Hans Richter Copy Share Image
The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint... I'd like to pretend that I've never seen anything,… — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
I don't want to feel like the cool kid in the crowd who doesn't want to do what the artist's saying. I… — Machine Gun Kelly Copy Share Image
“If creative procrastination, selectively applied, prevented Leonardo from finishing a few commissions—of minor importance when one is struggling with the inner workings… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
“My writing, it’s my way of making sense of everything. My way to feel whole. May I never be complete and may… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
The unsatisfied yearning of the artist reaches back to the primordial image in the unconscious which is best fitted to compensate the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the self, and I have to satisfy myself… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
A pick-up artist gave me a good piece of advice: the three most important things in a relationship are honesty, trust and… — Neil Strauss Copy Share Image
I think the problem with the art market and the art scene is that it is its own beast. It thrives and… — Robert Del Naja Copy Share Image
If you're stuck in a painting, then stop and draw something else. Draw a flower and put your love into that flower.… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
What I consider to be the barometer for what is a rock artist and what is not, is somebody who has a… — Ian Astbury Copy Share Image
There is something that always will be true about painting and sculpture - that in order to really get it, you have… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
In the last 20 years of collecting contemporary African art, I have been bombarded by incredible shapes and colors that I now… — Jean Pigozzi Copy Share Image
There's always peripheral things that you like that you don't know, but starting with whatever his British influences are, are some of… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
