“Every day I meet people who have so much to give but have been bullied enough or frightened enough to hold it… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Great works of art can be produced in barbarous societies - in fact the very narrowness of primitive society gives their ornamental… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
My concern today is with the painting of manners of the present. The past is interesting not only by reason of the… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
One of the most gratifying things I get as an artist is when people watch me do these different demonstrations, and they… — Criss Angel Copy Share Image
I want to be remembered as an artist that gave you a piece of me, as opposed to some surface bullshit. I… — Drake Copy Share Image
I think that I have grown a lot as an artist. I have been writing about my experiences of love and overcoming… — Jessica Sanchez Copy Share Image
There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning. An art school is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
So much of the hubris that surrounded conceptual art in the 1950s through '70s was that it had this arrogant presupposition that… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Throughout history, the arts and humanities have helped men and women around the globe grapple with the most challenging questions and come… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The paralysis that we have right now when we think about migration is partly because we can't imagine what the world would… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
You can trade money for other good things and that's nice, but it's not the first thing that matters to me. I'm… — Demian Maia Copy Share Image
Meeting and talking to the artist adds a special element to collecting contemporary art that makes the work an irreplaceable treasure rather… — Ernest West Basden Copy Share Image
Art brings people back to their sensibility as human beings. This is the purpose of art: To bring people together and bring… — eL Seed Copy Share Image
Art criticism everywhere is now at a low ebb, intellectually corrupt, swamped in meaningless jargon, distorted by political correctitudes, anxiously addressed only… — Brian Sewell Copy Share Image
“Like it!” I exclaimed. “It is lovely — wonderful! It is worthy to rank with the finest Italian masterpieces.” “Oh, no!” remonstrated… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
I think for an artist it's really important to have experiences, and I've had a lot of those. It's definitely inspired my… — Neon Hitch Copy Share Image
So many artists who came out during that time, including myself, were able to get on radio. New forms of singer-songwriters developed… — Carly Simon Copy Share Image
I think art is a healing force, and if we give in to the joy that can be found in art, then… — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
Let's look at people as artists and try to support them; just because Picasso painted a couple of bad paintings, that's no… — Steve Guttenberg Copy Share Image
I haven't many years left ahead of me and I must devote all my time to painting, in the hope of achieving… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Tis not your work, but Love's. Love, unperceived, A more ideal Artist he than all, Came, drew your pencil from you, made… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are… — Madeleine Peyroux Copy Share Image
If people want insights, if they want to swim in the currents of their own time and share the experiences of their… — Michael Hersch Copy Share Image
If you're drawing a Western town, you can duplicate that Western town from instinct alone. Some artists may take it from other… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
I think that designers have an incredibly broad creative repertoire. They solve. They create images of perfection for any number of clients.… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
In the early '60s, it was still a fairly subversive thing, though, to say that you should take a painting, cut it,… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
I think melancholy is part of the natural condition, you know. Anyway, I think it's the artist's function to have their melancholy… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
In most writers, style is a welcome, an invitation, a letting down of the drawbridge between the artist and the world. Shaw… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
There are three people's careers I'd like to meld together into my own... Jay Z's for his business mindset, Macklemore's hustle as… — CJ Fly Copy Share Image
The people love when you give them a part of you. You know what I mean? Those are the most successful artists.… — Jadakiss Copy Share Image
I can't think of anything more rewarding than being able to express yourself to others through painting. Exercising the imagination, experimenting with… — Bob Ross Copy Share Image
“The hours tick by as I lie in bed. Memories keep surfacing, tormenting me into unbelievable sadness. I can't bring myself to… — Ashley Earley Copy Share Image
The artist invites the spectator to take a journey within the realm of the canvas... Without taking the journey, the spectator has… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
Creative experimentation propels our culture forward. That our stories of innovation tend to glorify the breakthroughs and edit out all the experimental… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
It's kind of not about the quality of the art, as much as this is what I love doing and I'd have… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
And the works that endure and will endure for ever, the great masterpieces, cannot have come into being as humanity... imagines. Man… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
Are you an artist? Look about you. Is there a physical tool whose use you have mastered, a part of your body… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Everyone uses art for different reasons: We use it as entertainment. We use it as an escape. We use it as comfort.… — Hayley Kiyoko Copy Share Image
The only thing that I am concerned with in life is being an artist .. I had to suppress for so many… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
Picasso has a volatile, explosive presence. He seems to take art back to an earlier function, before the centuries of museums and… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
