You take a painting, you have a white, virginal piece of canvas that is the world of purity, and then you put… — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Copy Share Image
(Jean) Fautrier's exhibition (in Paris 1945,fh) made an extremely strong impression on me. Art had never before appeared so fully realised in… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
My best efforts were some modern things that looked like very lousy Matisses. Thank God I had the sense to realize they… — Norman Rockwell Copy Share Image
As far as I was concerned, with the early paintings, I liked them, I thought they were pretty good, but I didn't… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
The anarchist painter is not the one who will create anarchist pictures, but the one who will fight with all his individuality… — Paul Signac Copy Share Image
Works of art are meant to be lived with and loved, and if we try to understand them, we should try to… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
I have been in situations where actors are treated like robots: say the lines, say it like this, we don't have time… — Nia Long Copy Share Image
I think art must be tough! I think art has to be hard. I don't think it should be easy. I think… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
I follow politics in a big way, and always have since I was a kid. I've got opinions, but they're opinions on… — Sir Mix-a-Lot Copy Share Image
People don't know how heavily involved I am in my own career. I'm on 15 to 25 conference calls every few days… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
I cannot, as you [Edward Weston] once proposed to me - solve the problem of life by losing myself in the problem… — Tina Modotti Copy Share Image
I think almost every woman artist I've ever met has this ideal of being in a partnership working situation with a man,… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
I'd like to understand why it seems normal to look at astonishing achievements made by unapproachably ambitious, luminously pious, strangely obsessed artists,… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
I'm normal. I just had a different occupation for a while, and when you're in a different occupation, you have to carry… — Ice T Copy Share Image
There is an instinct for realism, a powerful drive to reproduce oneself. The fascination of photorealistic paintings lies partly in their apparent… — Audrey Flack Copy Share Image
“When people try to destroy art or thought... it makes all forms of art and thought valuable. It's a slippery slope once… — Michael Poore Copy Share Image
If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
This is so cool," I said loudly as Dad walked away. "Have you met the tattoo artist? Is he hot?" "He's a… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
Real joy is becoming exceedingly rare among artists of any kind. And I have an idea that those who can and do… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
The more you work, the less you exist. I believe (at least, I used to believe, because I no longer think this… — Christian Boltanski Copy Share Image
Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You see, painting has now become, or all art has now become completely a game, by which man distracts himself. What is… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“Reading's not a luxury, art's not a luxury. It's about your soul, and it's about yourself. And if reading is a luxury,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Anything you can do to express yourself is a form of art. That's why I love my craft so much. I always… — Emily Rios Copy Share Image
Mrs. Nixon and I share the sorrow of millions of Americans at the death of Louis Armstrong. One of the architects of… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
I'm always open to questions asked, and it will be up to me at that moment to decide if I want to… — Jennifer Lee Copy Share Image
A primary function of art andthought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
A young artist can become popular more quickly with the Internet providing instant access to ones work. That might lead to more… — Jillian Mayer Copy Share Image
Van Gogh was so under appreciated in his time, he sold only one of his 900 paintings while alive. Posthumously, he became… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Merely knowing your craft will never be enough to make a picture. If you ever amount to anything at all, it will… — Harvey Dunn Copy Share Image
When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots, but just paint Spring. To paint willows, plums, peaches, or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There is a symbiotic desire to get closer and closer, to enter the self of what is being drawn, and, simultaneously, there… — John Berger Copy Share Image
When I was young I was constantly reading walls; I took in everything written on walls, from love messages to political messages.… — Jose Parla Copy Share Image
Nearly a half-century on from feminism, simply being a woman artist is still a revolutionary act. And getting one's work shown continues… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“Don't spoil him. Don't try to influence him. Your influence would be bad. The world is wide and has many marvellous people… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I feel that one of the roles of the artist, in the way I define it, is that I need to be… — Dario Robleto Copy Share Image
There are people that bring artists to me to look at it and it's a question of whether I like their music… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I spent all of my childhood at a performance art camp. Putting on plays, it was more like commedia dell'arte. It wasn't… — Troy Garity Copy Share Image
I listened to a lot of Amy Winehouse: her albums 'Frank' and 'Back to Black'. She was such an incredible artist. She… — Daya Copy Share Image
Much of my writing has taken the form of a pilgrimage: to sacred places that represent the best of America, to musicians… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
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