“You might as well get one thing straight. I'm not an abstractionist... I'm not interested in the relationships of color or form… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
How would you paint me? If you were a artist how would you paint me? With deep solid strokes or your brush… — Christy Ann Martine Copy Share Image
Nothing is a hobby - each discipline is its own world with its own high standards. Of course, every artist has 'minor… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
I was trying to release emotions, exercise emotions, and then I entered the art world. Even after grad school, some of [the… — Kalup Linzy Copy Share Image
Art does not imitate nature, but founds itself on the study of nature, takes from nature the selections which best accord with… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I feel the calmest when I'm drawing or when I'm creating images. I love connecting the mind with the hand and producing… — Jerry Pinkney Copy Share Image
The way I grew up, I had a lot of personal issues with art. It's an individual thing, but I also think… — John Porcellino Copy Share Image
I think I was very lucky to have grown up with an artist's studio in the house. It was a kind of… — Caio Fonseca Copy Share Image
When I was in high school in the early 1960s, I wanted to be an animator and even took art classes. But… — Edwin Catmull Copy Share Image
The art world is never going to be popular like the NFL, but more people are buying art and I think that's… — Larry Gagosian Copy Share Image
People want to be successful, and they want to be acknowledged for what they do. Sometimes they make really great art and… — Devendra Banhart Copy Share Image
Any time you're nominated for anything, it's a true blessing and something you should be really excited about, but it's sort of… — Thomas Rhett Copy Share Image
“A huge cloud of dust is not a beautiful thing to look at. Very few painters have done portraits of huge clouds… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
I should like to achieve free, spontaneous painting delineating a powerful, strong structured image. One must be possible with the other. A… — Eva Hesse Copy Share Image
We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
I think if you think of our lives as musicians, it's craftsmanship. We're not artists, we're more artisans. You know, I don't… — David Prowse Copy Share Image
Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again. Born writers of… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Art shows us that human beings still matter in a world where money talks the loudest, where computers know everything about us,… — John Maeda Copy Share Image
I was the kind of kid who couldn't really stop making up stories during class. I didn't do very well academically because… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
All the things that can happen to an artist regardless of how prepared they are and how smart they are and hard-working… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
I'm from Holland and the history of "Admiral" is something you would read about when you're at school. Nobody knows about these… — Roel Reine Copy Share Image
If you think of any long-term artist that makes music throughout several decades, you would hope that it's autobiographical and a form… — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse. . . Remember that in order to recover as an artist, you must be… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
It is not possible to overstate the influence of Paul Cezanne on twentieth-century art. He's the modern Giotto, someone who shattered one… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Learning how to code and program computers when I was a kid was one of the best choices I made growing up.… — Robert Glaser Copy Share Image
“He was occupied with the forming of a pattern out of the manifold chaos of life, and the materials with which he… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“The arts can sharpen the vision, quicken the intellect, preserve the memory, activate the conscience, enhance the understanding and refresh the language.” — Steve Turner Copy Share Image
The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
If you want to create something that's worth doing you have to self-edit from the get-go. You really must be careful and… — John Dyer Baizley Copy Share Image
Why I talk so seriously about art is that art is the only thing that helps people stay alive, and it is… — Juliette Lewis Copy Share Image
Andy Warhol says everyone will be famous for 15 minutes in the future, but even he couldn't have imagine today's fame is… — Steve Kaufman Copy Share Image
In truth, factual information - names or dates - have never interested me much. Those things are like an alien language that… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
We do want to be diverted and be interested and be provoked by popular culture - by art, if we're lucky. And… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
An odd contradiction, if the layman were correct in his unconscious assumption that an artist begins with reality and ends with art:… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
With a stroke of love on the canvas of my soul I'm painting a perfect world with shades of Michelangelo With each… — Belinda Carlisle Copy Share Image
“Caravaggio to another. I’m sure that’s crossed Ariosto’s mind, Coffin considered. Wonder if he’s more focused on retrieving this one, or if… — Noah Charney Copy Share Image
Back in the day, artists could be mysterious. Now, people want to know and hear everything about you. They want to see… — Kandi Burruss Copy Share Image
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