It seems to me that whether it is recognized or not, there is a terrific frustration which increases in intensity and harmfulness… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“Art really does instruct us in how to think, feel, and behave. To be an artist is to have great power. To… — Rod Dreher Copy Share Image
The ballet. I saw in the fugitive beauty of a dancer's gesture a symbol of life. It was achieved at the cost… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
In my opinion painters owe to Giotto, the Florentine painter, exactly the same debt they owe to nature, which constantly serves them… — Giorgio Vasari Copy Share Image
I asked a lot of my artist friends and just friends in general what their favorite albums of all time were. I… — Arlo Parks Copy Share Image
To the artist He is the one altogether lovely, and to the educator He is the master teacher. To the philosopher He… — John Gerstner Copy Share Image
I don't think schooling of any sort really prepares you for real life. I don't know if art school would have prepared… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
When you don't know how to pick up a brush, you don't know anything; at that moment you're an artist. I'll simply… — Milton Resnick Copy Share Image
I believe in originality, primarily. However, it's important to know what there has been before to aim in that direction. Art history… — Philip Treacy Copy Share Image
I'm not an abstract artist; I leave that to others. To me, abstract art ended with Kazimir Malevich's 'Black Square.' To continue… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
Some people will like it. Some people will hate it. Some people are indifferent. And you have to live with that as… — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
As we get further into our career we're figuring out how to become more efficient as artists, and doing so many different… — Black Thought Copy Share Image
I'm an old guy, and I was protesting during the Vietnam War. We killed fifty Asians for every loyal American. Every artist… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“But what is extraordinary is that Modigliani's models resemble each other; it is not a matter of an assumed style or some… — Ilya Ehrenburg Copy Share Image
“It is not possible to have schools for painting; there are only painters. Schools have no use except for discerning the analytic… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
The people who fund the arts, provide the arts, and research the arts have all produced a consensus about the value of… — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the 'disenchantment of the world.' Precisely the… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
If you're an impressionistic painter and you want to paint expressionism, you've got to change. You've got to figure out a way… — Tobin Bell Copy Share Image
Tardiness is next to wickedness in a society relentless in its consumption of time as both a good and a service--as tweet… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher,… — Mark Mothersbaugh Copy Share Image
She has form," he said to himself, as he walked away through the grove - "that cannot be denied to her; but… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When you don't have to depend upon your creative work for money, you'll never really have to compromise... Knowing that is hugely… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
The only way a work of art can become great is for one to acknowledge that it doesn't belong to anybody. The… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
You can either set brick as a laborer or as an artist. You can make the work a chore, or you can… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
A lot of our insights are based on the ways in which people spend time at museums. They're curious, open, interested, and… — Jake Barton Copy Share Image
Art and work and art and life are very connected and my whole life has been absurd. There isn't a thing in… — Eva Hesse Copy Share Image
The same applies to any artist; we are the tools and instruments of our talent. We are outsiders; we have no place… — William Trevor Copy Share Image
“There are things the artist intends, and things the viewer sees, and what the viewer sees isn't always what the artist intends.… — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
New York is just New York. It's a hard city, it's a hard city to live in. It's a desperate city. It's… — Scott Cohen Copy Share Image
I am lucky in that my children are grown, my youngest is twenty-seven. I didn't have the conflict between artist and mother… — Pegi Young Copy Share Image
The longer I've been writing scripts, the more I find that you have to give the artist more leeway or else you'll… — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
I can't think of anything outside of having the gift yourself and creating yourself. I can't think of the next better thing… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
“It’s called ”being an artist” for a reason; it’s something YOU ARE. It’s how you live. It’s WHO you are. How you… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
If I create with my heart almost all my intentions remain. If it is with the head - almost nothing. An artist… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
Look at related industries. Concept art for games and film. Animation. Lots of places to hone your skill as an artist and… — Joe Madureira Copy Share Image
Commercial success still hasn't come to an artist that isn't signed to a record label. There are very few artists that can… — Edgar Bronfman, Jr Copy Share Image
Like one who draws the model of a house beyond his power to build it who, half through, gives o'er, and leaves… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In every painting, as in any other work of art, there is always an IDEA, never a STORY. The idea is the… — Jose Clemente Orozco Copy Share Image
Criticism will survive even if no one's paying for it. Obviously it's better if people are paying for it. But the fact… — Ignatiy Vishnevetsky Copy Share Image
She paints her face to hide her face. Her eyes are deep water. It is not for Geisha to want. It is… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
