As Mayor, I will fully support my Arts Commission and its professional selection committees so that they can commission a full range… — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
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I've definitely become more commercially successful. I think everything has changed over the past two years. People seem to take me seriously… — Charli XCX Copy Share Image
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Paint is something that I use with my hands and do all those tactile things. I really don't like oil because you… — Cy Twombly Copy Share Image
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. All intellectual and artistic ambitions are… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush - that’s when it starts. The public… — Banksy Copy Share Image
At the museum a troubled woman destroys a sand painting meticulously created over days by Tibetan monks. The monks are not disturbed.… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
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The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. ... They are essential… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
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Raising a child is a little like Picasso's work; in the beginning he did very conventional representational things. Cubism came after he… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
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People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is… — Minnie Maddern Fiske Copy Share Image
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Artists have no choice but to express their lives. They have only, and that not always, a choice of process. This process… — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
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