I know I draw without taking my pen off the page. I just keep going, and that my drawings I think of… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Indeed, artists, particularly modern artists, have intentionally limited the scope and vocabulary of their expression to convey, as Mark Rothko and Ad… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
The thing that a lot of people may or may not know is every artist is a cinephile, whether they watch movies… — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
Only Art is Eternal Wisdom; what is not Art soon perishes. Art is the unconscious love of all things. ‘Learning’ will cease… — Austin Osman Spare Copy Share Image
Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Transformation of any kind always exacts a holy tussle. The newborn butterfly struggles to open its wings so it can conjure up… — Tama J. Kieves Copy Share Image
It's important to be yourself. What art does for everyone, helps you understand yourself and in a distilled way, whether it's a… — Val Kilmer Copy Share Image
Fortunately I had a great intern who did a lot of the research on Andy's prices, which of course are phenomenal, but… — Bob Colacello Copy Share Image
There is no communication with any public whatsoever. The artist can ask no question, and he makes no statement; he offers no… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
In a painting, you can't make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
The idea of going to school to be an art critic is a very crazy idea. I educated myself in public, which… — Jonathan Santlofer Copy Share Image
There is a Nina Simone quote, 'It is an artist's duty to reflect the times.' This quote is everything to me and… — Raye Copy Share Image
Oftentimes, the way it seems to be is that our artists in particular point themselves out as spokesmen for a certain constituency… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
“Every amateur harbors the fantasy that his work is only waiting to be discovered; a second fantasy-that the established contemporary artists must… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
Art has a will of its own. It has nothing to do with the taste of the moment or what's expected of… — Helen Frankenthaler Copy Share Image
Don't listen to what anyone tells you about the kind of music you make. Just make it! Be yourself, make your own… — Billy Sherwood Copy Share Image
Defining art is huge; I feel like it's such a subjective thing. It's more like what's not art. You know what I… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
It's easy to look down from the summit you've reached, or even the summit I've reached, and talk about the responsibilities of… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
If we see someone, an artist who just does magnificent art, and especially if they're already doing Ghost-related art, we just reach… — Tobias Forge Copy Share Image
It was odd to have something so personal out there in that way, but the good thing about art is that no… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“We place too much of ourselves inside art - so we become part of it and never feel quiet again for the… — Laura Chouette Copy Share Image
If an artist has the possibility to contact an infinitely larger public through the pages of a publication, he should try to… — Domenico Gnoli Copy Share Image
Art was, seriously, the only thing I'd ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I wanted to contribute to the landscape tradition in art. By now I guess we are comfortable with the thought that man… — Aleksandra Mir Copy Share Image
“I'll enter some faculty or other, get a degree in a sunject that doesn't interest me but that will help me earn… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I think it enriches you as a scientist to be able to see things in an artistic perspective and as an artist… — Masi Oka Copy Share Image
When I was three or four, I was really good at drawing and painting, and everyone used to say, "You're going to… — Noel Fielding Copy Share Image
I thought for a long time that within art, that you would come up with an idea, you would labor over it… — Frank Iero Copy Share Image
“Many artists, even the greatest ones, are not sure of their own existence. So they search for proof, they judge, they condemn.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I don't think ever before in the whole of human history has so much art been made, bought, and sold. It's a… — Will Gompertz Copy Share Image
I seem initially to have followed Fauvism, and then to have followed in Cézanne's footsteps. Whatever - I do not mind... as… — Maurice de Vlaminck Copy Share Image
“Just as that puzzled savage who has picked up - a strange cast-up from the ocean? - something unearthed from the sands?… — Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I am trying to represent design through drawing. I have always drawn things to a high degree of detail. That is not… — Neil Denari Copy Share Image
Only stilted pedants can conceive the idea that there are absolute norms to tell what is beautiful and what is not. They… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Reverence for life . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“On the chalkboard was another horrible but familiar sight. Someone had dipped his or her hand into a can of paint and… — Michael Buckley Copy Share Image
A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste,… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
People always say that my work is sensational or shocking but there are truly shocking things you could do, and my sculptures… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
I need an artist to be a dog. You know what I'm saying? I need an artist to think for themselves. I… — Benny the Butcher Copy Share Image
What I've always seen in writers and artists is the courage it takes to make an original work of art. I think… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
