My contemporary art collection began with just needing to put things on the wall. I was looking around my Victorian house thinking,… — Hugh Grant Copy Share Image
As an artist, I would never let myself get boxed in. I'm a human being, too, and like most humans, I have… — Mike Patton Copy Share Image
Technology is technology and then art form and people's creativity is another thing. Anything that helps an artist do anything - great!… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
The non-geometric biomorphic forms of Arp and Miro and Moore are definitely in the ascendant. The formal tradition of Gauguin, Fauvism and… — Alfred H. Barr, Jr Copy Share Image
My mom is a painter, so I've been doing drawings and paintings as early as I can remember. Then there was this… — Alec Monopoly Copy Share Image
I think people always have - not just journalists who help their careers, I think all people struggle with this idea that… — Ellie Rowsell Copy Share Image
The most rewarding possible thing that a songwriter or an artist of any kind can experience is to hear firsthand from the… — Dan Mangan Copy Share Image
Artists can be the most powerful people in the world because they can use their voice for good. Politicians should be the… — Oliver Sykes Copy Share Image
The young man should first learn perspective, then the proportions of objects. Next, copy work after the hand of a good master,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I'm Cuban and Puerto Rican and Miami is very Cuban oriented. Growing up around the music - all of the salsa and… — Sabrina Claudio Copy Share Image
When I'm painting them, the whole legend and mythology of apples occurs to me, and so Adam and Eve and the snake… — Mary Pratt Copy Share Image
It was hard for me to move forward, because I take responsibility for what I introduce into the world through my paintings.… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
What makes people the world over stand in line for Van Gogh is not that they will see beautiful pictures but that… — John Russell Copy Share Image
Words in the mind are like colors on the palette of the artist. The more colors we have access to, the easier… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
In my naïvety, I thought people who were in rock 'n' roll bands were great artists, and it was a huge shock… — Bruce Dickinson Copy Share Image
Interfacing street sculpture in public space creates an installation environment that turns regular space into art space. Signs and people and everything… — Mark Jenkins Copy Share Image
Master Alfred de Musset says great artists have no country. They have also no world! They belong to the space, to the… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to become a pop artist, and I'm not trying to make sure I stay a country artist. I'm just… — Sam Hunt Copy Share Image
I came of age at the end of the 1960s, just when video was also coming into the world. Companies such as… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
Sometimes you don't get the value of the art or the painting you buy. The value you get from it is on… — Lemar Copy Share Image
Angelo is a brilliant jazz talent. His receptivity, seriousness, his ability to execute ideas simple or complex, combined with his love and… — Mulgrew Miller Copy Share Image
I was the first artist, I think, to ever do an all-keyboard album. There were things that resembled it, like Stevie Wonder.… — Gary Wright Copy Share Image
When I ask myself what are the great things we got from the Renaissance, it's the great art, the great music, the… — Kip Thorne Copy Share Image
“He's often wished that he could capture the full essence of each woman's laugh on canvas, but he settles instead, on watching… — Adam Gallari Copy Share Image
I think it's what any artist would want: to feel like their work can be taken in on a level of experience… — David Salle Copy Share Image
The alchemy of good curating amounts to this: Sometimes, placing one work of art near another makes one plus one equal three.… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Art really is something very difficult. It is difficult to make, and it is sometimes difficult for the viewer to understand. It… — Anselm Kiefer Copy Share Image
In art school, I started to see Pettibon in magazines, and I figured it out backward. I was into the idea that… — Michael Dumontier Copy Share Image
“There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before… — Henry James Copy Share Image
When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
“. . . No matter how screwed up the artist might be, there's still the chance that they can produce art that… — Charles Martin Copy Share Image
Art and life really are the same, and both can only be about a spiritual journey, a path towards a re-union with… — Genesis P-Orridge Copy Share Image
“These trends culminate in the Narmer Palette. Its very form harks back to a time when wandering cattle herders lived a seminomadic… — Toby A.H. Wilkinson Copy Share Image
When an artist is in the strict sense working, he of course takes into account the existing tastes, interests and capacity of… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Be committed to creating a life’s work, not a season. If you get overexcited and rush everything for fear of missing out,… — Rebecca Campbell Copy Share Image
There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is a special aura about artists who take their visions to the highest pinnacles of success ... I get very excited… — Bill Aucoin Copy Share Image
“Practical affairs task the human brain throughout the day. At night, the mind takes a deserved hiatus to consider the impossible and… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
For some artists the live performance is the chicken before the egg of writing or recording of repertoire. For other artists the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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