A lot of the most prolific painters died broke and weren't appreciated in their time. I'm trying to remember who exactly I… — Vic Mensa Copy Share Image
Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is the only… — John Green Copy Share Image
Amy Sedaris [in the Ghost Team] plays a Miss Cleo-esque character - Miss Cleo just died, so that's kind of timely -… — David Krumholtz Copy Share Image
You are not an artist simply because you paint or sculpt or make pots that cannot be used. An artist is a… — Toshiko Takaezu Copy Share Image
Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's better to live through someone's work than the person themselves, and to realise that every human being is flawed, but… — Emily Haines Copy Share Image
Dancers have always been a kind of background image, we've always danced behind an artist or we've danced in a movie behind… — Lacey Schwimmer Copy Share Image
I think the thing about what I want to achieve for the label is it to really be a home for artists… — Solange Knowles Copy Share Image
Jerry Robinson illustrated some of the defining images of pop culture's greatest icons. As an artist myself, it's impossible not to feel… — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
I kind of rely on my artist friends to make my physical music worth buying by having them all come together and… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
“ 'Paint only what you see,' his hero Millet had admonished. 'Imagination is a burden to a painter,' Auguste Renoir had told… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Painting, for me, when it really 'happens,' is as miraculous as any natural phenomenon - as say, a lettuce leaf. By 'happens,'… — Lee Krasner Copy Share Image
“In this same library we saw some drawings by Michael Angelo (these Italians call him Mickel Angelo,) and Leonardo da Vinci. (They… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It must be admitted that the results of this method of interpreting the art of making presents were not always happy. The… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Because a work does not aim at reproducing natural appearances it is not, therefore, an escape from life -- but may be… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with… — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
“There are seven incarnations (and six correlates) necessary to becoming an Artist: 1. Explorer (Courage) 2. Surveyor (Vision) 3. Miner (Strength) 4.… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
Making really great music, making really great films, writing great books is an antidote to all of that. And, as people, as… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
The further art advances the closer it approaches science," said Leonardo da Vinci, painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and inventor of the wheelbarrow,… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
“Maybe it’s the rogue in me, the part of me that loves to color outside the lines, but the truth is, I… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
I've been looking at oil paintings from oriental artists lately, and the one artist who's inspired me right now is a man… — Renee O'Connor Copy Share Image
The statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible, when it is passing out of criticism, and can no longer… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
By the time the child can draw more that scribble, by the age of four or five years, an already well-formed body… — Karl Buhler Copy Share Image
Art, if one employs this term in the broad sense that includes poetry within its realm, is an art of creation laden… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
The history of art is not just the history of artists; it is also the history of the people who viewed art.… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
In art, in taste, in life, in speech, you decide from feeling, and not from reason ... If we were obliged to… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
This is how many people become artists, musicians, writers, computer programmers, record-holding athletes, scientists... by spending time alone practicing what they love. — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
“Just as there is a moment when the artist must stop, when the sculpture must be left as it is, the painting… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I was trying to show colour, but I realized at the private view that the public were prisoners of a preconceived point… — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
My dad went to art school when I was one. They scraped and continued scraping, because artists, as we all know, don't… — Mark Bonnar Copy Share Image
Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense. A hill or tree cannot make a good… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is… — Corin Nemec Copy Share Image
There are a lot of artists who've said they'd like to work with me. To be honest, I'm not sure there is… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I've talked to a lot of artists - painters, writers, musicians - many of whom have had great ideas on trains. The… — Peter Gabriel Copy Share Image
What if criticism is a science as well as an art? Not a pure or exact science, of course, but these phrases… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
The coolest party I've ever D.J.ed would have to be for the artist Damien Hirst. It was an amazing party in Berlin.… — Chelsea Leyland Copy Share Image
I've never been this massive artist, but I've always had this really wicked cool fanbase - people that really dive in, know… — Lights Copy Share Image
The books I made, most of those books were made in the '80s or early '90s. I was reacting emotionally at that… — Crispin Glover Copy Share Image
![“Amy Sedaris [in the Ghost Team] plays a Miss Cleo-esque character - Miss Cleo just died, so that's kind of timely - but she plays a Miss Cleo-esque TV psychic who's also kind of a bullshit artist. One of the most triumphant character turns in the movie is when she realizes that even though she's a…” quote by David Krumholtz](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/84f/david-krumholtz-7751_amy_amy-sedaris-in-the-ghost-team-plays-a-mi_841595.jpg)
