You can go to places in Africa and Asia and find Marley graffiti. In the slums of Nairobi, you see his lyrics… — Kevin Macdonald Copy Share Image
Mary is God's masterpiece. Have you ever walked into a museum where an artist was displaying his work? Can you imagine him… — Scott Hahn Copy Share Image
I'm done with girls on rocks! I've painted them for thirteen years and I could paint them and sell them for thirteen… — Maxfield Parrish Copy Share Image
Artists make art for themselves. Art is an honest expression. Artists who pander to their fans by trying to make music “for”… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
That's what I like about the idea of the aesthetic experience, the idea of both enjoying looking at works of art and… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
In the first grade, I already knew the pattern of my life. I didn't know the living of it, but I knew… — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Copy Share Image
The art world is a bit smaller than the music world, and the music world is a bit smaller than the cinema… — Richard Prince Copy Share Image
I love the gallery, the arena of representation. It's a commercial world, and morality is based generally around economics, and that's taking… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
It was a challenge for me to see how I could deal with that at Jil, and I had a lot of… — Raf Simons Copy Share Image
I'd love to be considered a post-pop artist, but I love to have five or six different styles in every painting, just… — Erro Copy Share Image
It's fun to sit down and do a few drawings, but when you have to sit down and do hundreds of drawings… — Gary Panter Copy Share Image
No writer or teacher or artist can escape the responsibility of influencing others whether he intends to or not, whether he is… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Different artists are talking about the laws that exist and how they need to be fixed so that compensation does happen to… — Stevie Wonder Copy Share Image
The process of drawing is... the process of putting the visual intelligence into action, the very mechanics of visual thought. Unlike painting… — Michael Ayrton Copy Share Image
“In 1846 on of his Academy exhibits was a painting called The Angel Standing in the Sun . Turner found this passage… — Anthony Bailey Copy Share Image
The work of art is a revelation of the innate goodness of matter. Matter narcissistically mirrors itself in art, with the artist's… — Donald Kuspit Copy Share Image
I don't trust art that promises a 24-hour joyride. In fact, there seems to be a modern sense of entitlement for such… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I wanted to represent the world as a temporary art installation continuously changing. I wanted to consider it unreal and unfinished, judge… — Olivo Barbieri Copy Share Image
One didn't really believe till one saw it demonstrated that giving oneself up completely to art, to emotion, to enjoyment, without planning… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
The language of images [of inner-oriented artists] does not follow a code structure that is evident and widely accepted, but is more… — Kenneth Coutts-Smith Copy Share Image
I've gone to Yaddo many times, I've worked at the Rockefeller Foundation's Center for Scholars and Artists in Bellagio. That these are… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
The real problem with the art world is not the money men scavenging in its wake - they've always been there -… — Waldemar Januszczak Copy Share Image
“From a letter to Barrett H.Clark, 4 May 1918(LL,II,pp.204-5): "my attitude to subjects and expressions, the angles of vision, my methods of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Photography, like any other art, is a form of communication. The artist is not blowing bubbles for his own gratification, but is… — William Mortensen Copy Share Image
My role as an artist helps me tremendously in breaking down each story. Pacing, layout, movement - having drawn a few thousand… — Rob Liefeld Copy Share Image
“Love is an act of art ... It is this creative quality of love, that it seeks to reshape the world for… — Rod Dubey Copy Share Image
The artist of the future will live the ordinary life of a human being, earning his living by some kind of labour.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Every now and then there might be a beat someone turned down that I have as an unused beat. But everything that… — DJ Premier Copy Share Image
Artists and the traditional record company model are at odds. The music business has notoriously taken from the artist. That shouldn't be… — Steve Stoute Copy Share Image
Remember He is the artist and you are only the picture. You can't see it. So quietly submit to be painted---i.e., keep… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The business of the artist is not to escape from his material medium or bully it, but to serve it; but to… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I don't make records for pleasure. I did when I was a younger artist, but I don't today. I record so that… — Marvin Gaye Copy Share Image
“I was also, slowly, to learn that there were painters whom you grew out of (like the Pre-Raphaelites); painters you grew into… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I've studied live shows and artists for so long. I got the tour documentaries and all that and watched them. I love… — Kelsea Ballerini Copy Share Image
Everything that we see in our daily lives is more or less distorted by acquired habits and this is perhaps more evident… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Those works whose ideal has not as much living reality and, as it were, personality as the beloved one or a friend… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
If you know the differences between an oak and a poplar, a spruce and a pine, down to the needles... you are… — T. Allen Lawson Copy Share Image
Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world. Just as a flower, by… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image