“I shall call modern that art which ... presents the fact that the unpresentable exists. To make visible that there is something… — Jean-François Lyotard Copy Share Image
It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most of these… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Art is not made only one way, art is a point of view? Rembrandt in our days would be Rembrandt again, because… — Marianne von Werefkin Copy Share Image
The best thing about being an artist, instead of a madman or someone who writes letters to the editor, is that you… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The progression of a painter’s work…will be toward clarity; toward the elimination of all obstacles between the painter and the idea, and… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
To please God… to be a real ingredient in the divine happiness… to be loved by God, not merely pitied, but delighted… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It would be bypassing the issue to say that the artist's business is to work with this and that material or manipulate… — Hans Haacke Copy Share Image
I wanna get into modeling a little bit, even acting. Just expanding myself as an artist because the music thing ain't forever,… — Kevin McCall Copy Share Image
To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing... When I find myself facing a blank page, that’s always… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
A lot of people considered my career as an artist largely over. Two albums got shelved. But I've made music since I… — Mike Posner Copy Share Image
There's all this evidence that we leave now of our life, especially if you're a comedian or an entertainer. I mean, I… — Moshe Kasher Copy Share Image
“Art has now done for Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow something they could never achieve in life: it has taken a shark-eyed… — Bryan Burrough Copy Share Image
And with a few moments like that, with doubt from here and there, and within ourselves we were just striving for excellence.… — Jørn Utzon Copy Share Image
“. . . no good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
These are things that I continue to enjoy speaking about. The woods. Boats. Greeks. I think the real heart of it, is… — Carey Mercer Copy Share Image
It is better decoration when, in painting, some monstrosity is introduced for variety and a relaxation of the senses and to attract… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
I would love to hear all types of Christian artists played all over the world. I'd love to hear good, positive mainstream… — Stacie Orrico Copy Share Image
“There never has been an artistic age, or an artistic people, since the beginning of the world. The artist has always been,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The living model never answers well the idea or impressions the painter wishes to express; one must, therefore, learn to do without… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
I think there is more creative freedom as a solo artist by far because you might get a group push back on… — Myka 9 Copy Share Image
“We can have all the food and water we need, but without the sustenance of real story, real art — without the… — Derek Rydall Copy Share Image
I'm not anti conceptual art. I don't think painting must be revived, exactly. Art reflects life, and our lives are full of… — Jenny Saville Copy Share Image
If men were able to be convinced that art is a precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“You have to work with the paint and work with whatever the day brings you. If it's a wee bit dreary out,… — Kieran Kramer Copy Share Image
Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
As an artist and as a Black woman coming out of a background that emphasizes service, there are certain responsibilities that I… — Yolanda King Copy Share Image
“All this talk about what a marvelous future science'll bring us? Art can change things just as much.' She stubbed out her… — Ellen Klages Copy Share Image
An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to… — Sebastian Horsley Copy Share Image
The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, I never knew anything about art. I think in South Africa at that stage, no one was… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
“True artists, whatever smiling faces they may show you, are obsessive, driven people—whether driven by some mania or driven by some high,… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
Works of art and literature should promote humans to reflection. A revolutionary perspective should be evoked and a changing societal awakening formulated… — Vellupillai Pirapakaran Copy Share Image
Do not fall into the error of the artist who boasts of twenty years experience in his craft while in fact he… — Trevanian Copy Share Image
I really appreciate artists of the 20th century, and I can see a lot of their influence on my work, but to… — Michael Arad Copy Share Image
“We try to improve the conditions of the race by means of good air, free sunlight, wholesome water, and hideous bare buildings… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I view all art as an effort to translate brain concepts into a work. These brain concepts are synthetic ones - the… — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
In order not to cut out a large part of one's private life, the creative work should not swallow up every other… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
I had no idea the amount of people who even knew who I was. Suddenly, they were coming up and saying, "You're… — Eric Wight Copy Share Image
It's very interesting how life imitates art, and art imitates life; I find, whenever I read scenes of some magnitude, I'm like,… — Katherine Moennig Copy Share Image
