A job the artist does which no-one else does is to dismantle existing communication codes and to combine some of their elements… — Victor Burgin Copy Share Image
I think that video content is really important for artists these days. Not necessarily for MTV, but to really just get your… — Matthew Mayfield Copy Share Image
From since I could remember I've always been an artist, drawing, painting and so forth. I would also always draw made up… — Ashley Purdy Copy Share Image
Painting something that defies the law of the land is good. Painting something that defies the law of the land and the… — Banksy Copy Share Image
Style is, above all, a system of forms with a quality and a meaningful expression through which the personality of the artist… — Meyer Schapiro Copy Share Image
The paintings are not just on flat walls - you have these enormous niches, bulges and protrusions, as well as stalactites and… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
All the old bogeys of 'dignified subject-matter,' of 'balanced compositions,' of 'correct drawing' were laid to rest. The artist was responsible to… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
People say, Why dont you just paint with paintbrushes? I say that I feel more connected to my painting using my skin.… — Meredith Ostrom Copy Share Image
I just feel if you are an artist, you always have something to prove, if you are in music or in films,… — Sean Combs Copy Share Image
“The paradox of being a professional artist. How we spend our lives trying to express ourselves well, but we have nothing to… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I like the idea of the museum world and the university-academic situation where artists talk to each other or where artists or… — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
Artists are looking for a new modernity that would be based on translation: What matters today is to translate the cultural values… — Nicolas Bourriaud Copy Share Image
Actually, I know for a fact there are some young female artists who don't even sing on their own records and who… — Avril Lavigne Copy Share Image
I found being able to change things on the fly and react to the changes in the artwork makes it stronger. And… — David Finch Copy Share Image
My experience with life is that it's very fragmented. In one place certain kinds of thing occur, and in another place a… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
My soul is a canvas stretched across four wooden corners and tacked with copper nails that sink into the edges of timber… — Keariene Muizz Copy Share Image
My idea for every exhibition is we should be able to see every individual work without being distracted by the others, and… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
There's a definite connection in terms of objects at hand - dealing with objects or material at hand. Pop art was very… — Virginia Dwan Copy Share Image
In America idea of freedom isn't actually about freedom. That's about power. The point of an artist is to find out what… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
My personal life, my musical life, my life as an artist - almost everything has pointed all these little arrows that make… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
“The form and color which guide men experienced in the study of the masters are not always recognized by laymen. Yet they… — Walter Pach Copy Share Image
All the arts are based on the senses. What they do for the person who practices them, and also the persons interested… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
...treasure what it means to do a day's work. It's our one and only chance to do something productive today, and it's… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The art that I do is for the people. It is about engaging a new audience who wouldn't necessarily go to art… — Ben Eine Copy Share Image
The majority of people probably think that Damien Hirst is avant-garde. Look at the amount of people who say 'What is this… — Vic Reeves Copy Share Image
I attempt to create a world that hypnotizes me as I make it. I hope others can get lost in it in… — John Lurie Copy Share Image
You I am sure will forgive me for sincerely remarking that you might curb your magnanimity and be more of an artist,… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I think what really separates artists from the rest of the world is that artists feel like they have permission to keep… — Antony Hegarty Copy Share Image
You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
Video is a funny thing. It's one thing to be an artist, singer-songwriter, and use words and create pictures in people's minds.… — Melissa Etheridge Copy Share Image
I feel totally female. I didn't compete with men and I don't want to look like a man! I love being a… — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Copy Share Image
“This is why a tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
An artist has an obligation to tell the truth. [...] that the true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Dark Arts are many, varied, ever-changing and eternal. Fighting them is like fighting a many-headed monster, which, each time a neck… — Severus Snape Copy Share Image
The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn't support yourself… — David Bailey Copy Share Image
Despite all the efforts of art dealers, the number of Rembrandts existing at a given time is limited; yet such paintings are… — Ronald Coase Copy Share Image
“After I see a painting, I go into a room, I close my eyes and I slowly escape into the beauty of… — Srinidhi.R Copy Share Image
“Great art is anything that provokes a deep emotinal reaction at the time that you hear it and then you can't get… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image