Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The debut show, “Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary,” is supposed to be about how artists reuse humble or unusual materials. There’s good… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
When you look at the paintings at Chauvet Cave, they're not primitive or like children's little scribbles, it bursts on the scene… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Performance is there, and if you are not there in that moment it happened, it just stays in the memory. It's so… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
What is a portrait good for, unless it shows just how the subject was seen by the painter? In the old days… — Aubrey Beardsley Copy Share Image
Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a badly managed family… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Spend at least 20-30% of your time marketing. You have to pay for this either way. Either you pay a gallery to… — Cory Trepanier Copy Share Image
The artist who does not feel completely satisfied by elegant lines, by harmonious colors, and by a beautiful succession of chords does… — Camille Saint-Saens Copy Share Image
Every work of art reaches man in his inner powers. It reaches him more profoundly and insidiously than any rational proposition, either… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Whether looking at pop music, hip-hop or R&B, it's rare to find an artist who hasn't been touched or affected by the… — Marvin Sapp Copy Share Image
“Somewhat similar is another effect called anamorphosis. This is an amazing technique that makes an image literally “morph” into another shape or… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
You also said in Rolling Stone that your look is based on mine. The look I chose, I chose on purpose at… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
In art there are two principal schools between which each aspirant has to choose--one distinguished by its close adherence to nature, and… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
For too many centuries women have been being muses to artists. I wanted to be the muse, I wanted to be the… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Growing up I didn't want to be an actor. I sort of didn't want to go into the family business; the main… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
I think the biggest lesson is the common one that gets in the way of most of us as artists - there… — Lela Loren Copy Share Image
I was an abstract expressionist before I had seen any abstract expressionist paintings. I started when I was a kid and continued… — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
“After all, the world population of artists has exploded, almost no one is not an artist now; in turning our attention inward,… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
The connection I have with my fans is so important, and I want to break the boundaries and break the barriers between… — Yungblud Copy Share Image
From 11 to 17, I just toured my butt off with my dad and my sister. We hit the road and I… — Gabby Barrett Copy Share Image
Coaching is my way of helping aspiring and professional writers get the kind of help and guidance that it took me years… — Steven C. Harper Copy Share Image
“I wonder whether you have noticed that man is the only animal who draws his picture, his own picture. No other animal… — Osho Copy Share Image
Photographs will always be impressive because they show us nature, and all artists will find in them a world of sensations. The… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I didn't go to art school. So, I never had this moment of taking time to actually learn how to make things… — Agathe Snow Copy Share Image
“The discovery of useful forms is precious. Once found, they should never be abandoned for trivial reasons. It’s easy to imagine today’s… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
Those who largely rely on their hands and the beautiful or shocking traces of the imagination that they leave on the canvas… — Pierre Alechinsky Copy Share Image
I believe the media pretty much dictates the way relationships are handled, even in the way we handle ourselves. Abuse, cheating, threesomes,… — Tony Gaskins Copy Share Image
I'm doing interviews and there are pictures of my face, so it's not like I'm hiding who I am. As soon as… — SOHN Copy Share Image
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Every successful artist comes from a family - parents or siblings or both - who, although equally gifted, chose not to pursue… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
Maybe 80 percent of what we conceive to be a song idea or the meaning of a song is not exactly what… — Matt Corby Copy Share Image
But God has the most fun with artists and writers: he inflames them with the desire to rival his own creations, then… — Rick Bayan Copy Share Image
“They to whom a boy comes asking, Who am I, and what am I to be? have need of ever so much… — Lew Wallace Copy Share Image
Few artists have influenced the sound and trajectory of popular music more distinctly, or touched quite so many people with their talent.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
When you get to know an artist, you find out the things that have peeved them over the years, and it's generally… — Phil Ramone Copy Share Image
What is to be done about these literary people, who will never understand that painting is a craft and that the material… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
I'm sure I'm not the only artist to flinch remembering some of the tacky merchandise sold at gigs - flags, pillowcases -… — Shakin' Stevens Copy Share Image
Some people think a martial artist has to be tough against everybody - that's not true at all. A martial artist has… — Tsutomu Ohshima Copy Share Image
