I grew up as an artist. Science fiction allows for design and creatures and guns and all the stuff that I like… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
If an art has for its function to represent manners and people, I do not see how it can avoid systematizing its… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything! We know that, and we both claim and allow to others… — Horace Copy Share Image
Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
Every human being is an artist, a freedom being, called to participate in transforming and reshaping the conditions, thinking and structures that… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
l can do very well without God both in my life and in my painting, but l cannot, ill as I am,… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
When you go on your Twitter or look down your Timeline and it's all great positivity - I love that. But at… — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
I actually happened to be in Haiti right before the earthquake in 2010. I was there already with the organization I work… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
Truth is stranger than fiction," as the old saying goes. When I watch a documentary, I can't help crying and then I… — Hiromu Arakawa Copy Share Image
It was a choice between a paint factory in Indianapolis - a management training program to maybe run the paint factory one… — Dara Khosrowshahi Copy Share Image
We think it hugely important to support young artists, there is a war against that kind of artistry, that kind of creation...When… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm an artist or that I'm doing anything superintellectual. What's important to me is to get a visceral reaction… — Joseph Altuzarra Copy Share Image
I'm realistic about my age and realistic about the fact that there's an awful lot less in front of me than there… — Roger Daltrey Copy Share Image
I enjoyed cross-country road trips. And I found the work challenging because it was art that existed on the land rather than… — Virginia Dwan Copy Share Image
Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do not understand why any poet or writer would run for office; that's a different sense of who you are. I'm… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
“He saw the white paper as the great universe of nonexistence. A single stroke would give rise to existence within it. He… — Eiji Yoshikawa Copy Share Image
Artists, whether they're classical musicians or pop musicians, they have always been the reflection of society, and in many ways a healing… — George Duke Copy Share Image
“You should regard each meeting with a friend as a sitting he is unwillingly giving you for a portrait - a portrait… — Hope Mirrlees Copy Share Image
A popular cliche in philosophy says that science is pure analysis or reductionism, like taking the rainbow to pieces; and art is… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Pure painting or the art of drawing whose point of departure is based on purely formal criteria is,in my opinion,passé. I do… — Gunter Brus Copy Share Image
When you play to an audience, you come away energized. It's the promo that really breaks an artist. Some lad sitting on… — Hozier Copy Share Image
Artists draw for themselves, If someone draws for them, theyre not an artist. An artist is someone who makes their own music… — Jay Park Copy Share Image
As a new artist, you come out, and there are so many other new artists. It seems like there's a whole wave… — Jason Aldean Copy Share Image
Art is one of the dirtiest words in our language; it's mucked up with all kinds of meanings. There's the art of… — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
Everything in life is drawing, if you want. Drawing is quintessential to knowing the self. Art that survives from one generation to… — Richard Tuttle Copy Share Image
The attitude and reactions of artists toward their art children reveal an attitude similar to that which mothers in general possess toward… — Beatrice M. Hinkle Copy Share Image
I think every artist, producer, believe's that it's going to happen at some point and time. You never want to just hear… — Jadakiss Copy Share Image
“The artist striving for truth or sincerity had to guard his spontaneous vision against distortion or alteration by aesthetic conventions or preconceptions.” — Linda Nochlin Copy Share Image
In my low periods, I wondered what was the point of creating art. For whom? Are we animating God? Are we talking… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The purpose of all art is to cause a deep and emotion, also one that is entertaining or pleasing. Out of the… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
I like art; if I could just draw pictures all day, I would, but I can't; I'm horrible. I practiced at it,… — Iman Shumpert Copy Share Image
Art grabs people by their eyeballs, it seduces them. Especially if the picture is very beautiful or very sexy or just really… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
I wasn't artistic in drawing or painting, but I think I am artistic in sport. I think I'm always looking for the… — Robin Van Persie Copy Share Image
If you have value as an artist it's probably going to be in your capacity to let things inside you get past… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I obviously appreciate all the fans I gained from my band, but there weren't enough of them to make me a very… — Cassadee Pope Copy Share Image
I've established myself as a proper artist. And it's ridiculous when anyone questions my credibility - I've had four number one singles… — Olly Murs Copy Share Image
John Baldessari, the 79-year-old conceptualist, has spent more than four decades making laconic, ironic conceptual art-about-art, both good and bad. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
An artist strives to frame his ideals in an image; to challenge his audience and to make his vision immortal. But the… — Andrew Ryan Copy Share Image
