I didn’t see any difference between being a photographer or being an artist. I didn’t make those boundaries. If someone wants to… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of the artist but… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
An honest self-portrait is extremely rare because a man who has reached the degree of self-consciousness presupposed by the desire to paint… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't feel that things need make their appeal exclusively to one demographic. I don't feel that there is truly great art… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
Great art is more than a transient refreshment. It is something which adds to the permanent richness of the soul's self-attainment. It… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“But whatever the nature of your work, there is an art to what you do, and there are people who would be… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
I don't need a psychiatrist. I can sort out my fears with my work. That's the privilege of all artists, to be… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
I've decided to do what I want to do in life and follow my own path as an artist, so I've decided… — Thomas F. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Good art is becoming hard to find these days. With political correctness, the internet, globalization, and multiculturalism, people are becoming pressured to… — Robert Black Copy Share Image
It's wonderful to make a lot of money, to be able to take care of my family, to have the facilities I… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
We were really poor when I was growing up; my parents, both artists, were bohemians. Life was a desperate struggle, but in… — Justine Kurland Copy Share Image
I definitely want to be a country artist. I want to make it very clear that I want to stay in our… — Carly Pearce Copy Share Image
I have painted portraits that to me are almost photographic. I remember hesitating to show the paintings, they looked so real to… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
The secret of 'fusion' is the fact that the artist's eye sees in nature... an inexhaustible wealth of tension, rhythms, continuities, and… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
“One of the things people generally admire about Van Gogh, even though they were not always aware of it, was the way… — David Markson Copy Share Image
“Business art is the step that comes after art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
That is the way convince people. Or change them and prevent them from hurting whether themselves and others. Art is the most… — Jennifer Echols Copy Share Image
There are a bunch of independent artists who became millionaires and they don't owe anything to anybody. They don't have to give… — Anuel AA Copy Share Image
The Germans were much more graphical. The expressionism is much more than cinema. It was a movement with artists, painters, music and… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
“I know. You think you love art because you have a sensitive soul. Isn't a sensitive soul simply a means of transforming… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
If you think art is a competitive forum, then you're going to stop doing it if you're not good. But if it's… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
Art is not difficult because it wishes to be difficult, rather because it wishes to be art. However much the writer might… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
“To speak of these things and to try to understand their nature and, having understood it, to try slowly and humbly and… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
People approach people of color with preconceived ideas. I don't think this is just restricted to white people, but I think that… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
Artists are most themselves when they are out of their minds, transcending the ego skirmishes of conceptual thought, and intuitively relinquishing control… — Alex Grey Copy Share Image
I do have that mindset - that most good art comes from some turmoil, from someone trying to come to some equilibrium,… — Ben Folds Copy Share Image
People with a high level of personal mastery are able to consistently realize the results that matter most deeply to them-in effect,… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
I benefit from contemplation, but it's a great antidote to that, having someone interesting come into the studio environment to be painted,… — Stuart Pearson Wright Copy Share Image
With cold eyes and indifferent mind the spectators regard the work. Connoissers admire the "skill" (as one admires a tightrope walker), enjoy… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
The mindset of chasing that next #1 record doesn't exist for me anymore. It's more about being a well-rounded entertainer than being… — Donny Osmond Copy Share Image
“She felt about a love set as a painter does about his masterpiece; each ace serve was a form of brushwork to… — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious, individualistic, unconventional, sensitive, irritable. — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
The Artist submits from day to day to the fatal rhythm of the impulses of the universal world which encloses him, continual… — Odilon Redon Copy Share Image
It present to allow me to ask myself questions about what I'm doing. I think that's what visual art does - it… — Nina Arianda Copy Share Image
Artists say that paintings are never done. I sort of feel the same way about music. I would never say something is… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
I connect with techno way more than house. I find it frustrating people call me a house artist because I think my… — Galcher Lustwerk Copy Share Image
It is in an artist's real interest to congratulate herself more often: not out of narcissism, but in her role as her… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
When you put a halo on concepts - gender roles, religion, nationality or pride - or you put a halo on any… — Dan Mangan Copy Share Image
You hold in your hand the camel's-hair brush of a painter of Life. You stand before the vast white canvas of Time.… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
