Some artists go through life not realizing that they have to be happy today. They're always thinking about the next job or… — Francois Arnaud Copy Share Image
We lived on a farm in the English countryside, where we wrote a lot of our music. You really were treated like… — Gary Wright Copy Share Image
I wasn't exposed to art as I was growing up, and can't recall the first time I saw a work of art.… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
My bad head cannot adjust itself to the way things are… If I want to depict spring, it has to be in… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Even at this late date, I go into my studio, and I think 'Is this going to be it? Is it the… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
An artist doesn't necessarily have deeper feelings than other people, but he can express these feelings. He is like everyone else-only more… — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
I'm not a pop artist. For me pop never was… Pop is concerned with exteriors. I'm concerned with interiors. When I use… — Jim Dine Copy Share Image
Drawing ... is an innocent & engaging amusement, often useful, and a qualification not to be neglected in one who is to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The vision is rather of the artist, as physical and embodied, set in the midst of a God-given world vibrant with a… — Jeremy Begbie Copy Share Image
Sometimes I will portray the more normal-looking people as the monsters and then the more distorted - "uniquely formed" is the word… — Chris Mars Copy Share Image
Painting has this ability to send the viewer [backward], but it's also this physical object in the room with you. It's always… — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
I agree that Ruskin has done much harm to counter balance much good in giving people the trick of talking about Art… — William H. Hunt Copy Share Image
Hollywood used to be run by artists and people who loved artists... people who wanted to make movies for all the right… — Matthew Lillard Copy Share Image
“So you have to be humble in dealing with the spaces and make sure they are used according to their unique purpose… — Prestel Publishing Copy Share Image
It may be that just as tonality recurs in music and realism in painting, so the idea of liberalism recurs in politics-though… — Eva Hoffman Copy Share Image
The conceptual and politically-driven art so popular and considered to be the forefront of contemporary art today is limited by its topicality… — Scott Kahn Copy Share Image
If you loved everything you were writing, you would be deluding yourself or a complete and absolute narcissist. It's not about liking… — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
Look at the earth crowded with growth, new and old bursting from their strong roots hidden in the silent, live ground, each… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
I have different hats; I'm a mother, I'm a woman, I'm a human being, I'm an artist and hopefully I'm an advocate.… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
You cannot just be working in a vast, air-conditioned loft space and think you are going to make a decent painting. Francis… — Peter Doig Copy Share Image
There is actually no such thing as an Artist type. 'Artist' is just an economic designation, a box you tick on a… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
I think the entrepreneurial activities that make art visible and attractive are what lure people into the amusement park that SoHo has… — Sharon Zukin Copy Share Image
I'd never painted anything before. I was quite content to take other people's work since I didn't care anyway about the subject… — Tom Wesselmann Copy Share Image
People say, 'Why don't you just paint with paintbrushes?' I say that I feel more connected to my painting using my skin.… — Meredith Ostrom Copy Share Image
“I have never found a book that stressed the importance of myself as a caretaker of my ability, of staying healthy mentally… — Andrew Loomis Copy Share Image
“To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I have my own little sense of style. As far as image goes today for a new artist, you'll find that fashion… — Miranda Lambert Copy Share Image
“I'd see him do things that didn't fit with his face or hands, things like painting a picture at OT with real… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
Regarding pushing the form, ideas interest me more than form. I think you can write a very subversive play in a three-act… — Caridad Svich Copy Share Image
There are many kinds of richness, and the man who is rich because of money is the lowest as far as the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
One of the weirdest things that happened to artists and art criticism was this moment when everyone got cynical and stopped believing… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
One thing that's important to point out is that this kind of populism has a long and mixed history. It's part of… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
I start drawing, and eventually the characters involve themselves in a situation. Then in the end, I go back and try to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think the most important thing is you need to have a very, very clear idea of who you are as an… — Chloe Kohanski Copy Share Image
I've been touring for so long, I've kind of honed into exactly what I am, I'm an artist so if you like… — Paul McDonald Copy Share Image
Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. They've… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
I decided that the whole idea of what it means to be an artist was that somehow you are ontologically oriented toward… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
“But I tell you, nothing is pointless, and nothing is meaningless if the artist will face it. And it’s his business to… — Katherine Ann Porter Copy Share Image
I am just doing photo shoots. It's not something that extraordinary. I'm not a great artist, I'm not writing books, I'm not… — Carine Roitfeld Copy Share Image
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