Art does not lie in copying nature.- Nature furnishes the material by means of which is to express a beauty still unexpressed… — Henry James Copy Share Image
There's a fine line between artist and product. I don't think the industry purposely does it, but I think that's just the… — Dawn Richard Copy Share Image
Before my sister, Sara, and I went to bed at night, my mom would show us books on Manet and other artists.… — Erdem Moral?oglu Copy Share Image
When I had spent a few days without thinking, without doing anything, I would feel a sudden urge to paint. Then I… — Maurice de Vlaminck Copy Share Image
“Henry had written a novel because there was a hole in him that needed filling, a question that needed answering, a patch… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Raymond Hendler exhibited a group of abstract paintings that displayed rare high spirits. Using a great deal of fresh white, Hendler devised… — Dore Ashton Copy Share Image
Sometimes you feel some artists are doing the same thing that you're doing but in a different field. But they have the… — Missy Mazzoli Copy Share Image
Art serves us best precisely at that point where it can shift our sense of what is possible, when we know more… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“Maybe, if she finished this painting, her father would see that her mother's life hadn't gone unfinished, that her art would live… — Deanna Lynn Sletten Copy Share Image
“When you draw and pay attention to what is, it's a form of being present. This inspires the mind, makes it happy,… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“The culture of our world, right now, is crafted by little boys who only recall being stood up on their first date,… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
You know, I just don't believe that art is supposed to make sense. I really don't think it's supposed to be analyzed… — Shelby Lynne Copy Share Image
Artists aren't necessarily business people. And they aren't necessarily aware of all the things that go on in their names. Some just… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
So much of every art is an expression of the subconscious that it seems to me most of all the important qualities… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
The creative process, so far as we are able to follow it at all, consists in the unconscious activation of an archetypal… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
It is all too easy as an artist to allow the shape of our career to be dictated to us by others.… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I think historically there have always been new ways to find an artist. From seeing somebody in a club traditionally to running… — Matt Serletic Copy Share Image
“I think he is the ornament of society! Oh, there is not just one role for the artist in society. He has… — Peter Taylor Copy Share Image
We know great art by its effect on us. If we are prepared to look without preconceptions, without defenses, without haste, then… — Wendy Beckett Copy Share Image
I don't think there is room for 'artistic temperament.' Professional artists understand art is a business. If businesses ran their companies like… — Jack White Copy Share Image
How many of the people I know - sons and daughters - have intricate abstract expressionist paintings of their mothers, created out… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
I wanted to show that an African-American artist could make it in this country on a national level in the graphic arts.… — Jerry Pinkney Copy Share Image
It is true that the environment does have an influence but what has much greater effect on the artist is love or… — Henri Gaudier-Brzeska Copy Share Image
I think most artists would agree, it's one thing to be playing in front of a crowd that's loving it, it's another… — Brett Dennen Copy Share Image
The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
“Some people are born to make great art and others are born to appreciate it. Don't you think? It is a kind… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
I'm not a sculptor; I'm a hard-edged model maker. You give me a drawing, you give me a prop to replicate, you… — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
Artists want to sell their work, sure. But they aren't out there asking questions about what people want and what they don't… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
“Here, this is for you," the girl said, holding out one of the pages on which she'd been drawing. "Oh, I... well,… — Tracy Anne Warren Copy Share Image
Each work of art is a collection of signs invented during the picture's execution to suit the needs of their position. Taken… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
It is by developing the individual that he is prepared for that wonderful manifestation of the human intelligence, which drawing constitutes. The… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
My business is retrospective = I'm looking at the past, they all passed away - and it's a big pleasure, that's the… — Patrick Seguin Copy Share Image
Many painters are afraid of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the truly passionate painter who dares-and who… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
What every artist should try to prevent is the car, in whichis our civilized life, plunging over the side of the precipicethe… — Wyndham Lewis (1882â1957 Copy Share Image
You should look at certain walls stained with damp, or at stones of uneven color. If you have to invent some backgrounds… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
My real background was in art studies. At the beginning I was a painter, then I was this graphic designer, then I… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
'Super 8' was a lot of fun. It was a lot of fun working with J.J. Abrams, who I think is a… — Glynn Turman Copy Share Image
As for techniques and processes, as seen in the works themselves, neither public nor artists will find anything about them here. Those… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
![“My business is retrospective = I'm looking at the past, they all passed away - and it's a big pleasure, that's the point of collecting. It's certainly a [better] quality of life you have living with [these] works, but [I] also [value] the relationship we have with the artists.” quote by Patrick Seguin](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/92a/patrick-seguin-56024_art_my-business-is-retrospective-i-m-looking_247900.jpg)
