“I have this prodigious talent for painting the person behind the facade, but with Blaine the facade is all there is left… — Tabitha McGowan Copy Share Image
“A clean sheet of paper has no blotches,” wrote Mao, “and so the newest and most beautiful words can be written on… — Gordon G. Chang Copy Share Image
The artist of today is more than an improved camera, he is more complex, richer, and wider. He is a creature on… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
For popular purposes, at least, the aim of literary artists should be similar to that of Rubens in his landscapes, of which,… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
Great art grabs you, against your will, and then suspends your will. You are ushered into a quiet clearing, free of desire,… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the limits of personality, in the possibility of change, and the saving power of art. Do powerful works of… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
If you look on the history of art you observe how the most popular forms trample the rest. The abstract expressionists destroyed… — Mark Edward Copy Share Image
I see only one requirement you have to have to be a director or any kind of artist: rhythm. Rhythm, for me,… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
I prefer to hear an artist's work and what they can do, so as far as I'm concerned, I'd get a lot… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
I put out tapes, but I always kept saying, 'Why am I putting all this energy into these tapes?' I was like,… — DJ Khaled Copy Share Image
You can hear some artists, hear five of their albums and still have no idea who they are. But if you've heard… — Rodney Atkins Copy Share Image
I know a lot of artists and chefs don't talk about this, but sometimes you just don't get to the finish line.… — Roy Choi Copy Share Image
Photography is unlike any other art form. In the other arts there is always a continuous interplay between the artist and his… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
To be sure an artist wishes to raise his standard intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain in obscurity.… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
“the idea of "extension" makes sense to me because art and the world can't be as easily divided as we sometimes imagine.… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
There are goals that I had set out for myself as an artist. I have accomplished some of them - becoming accepted… — Jimmy Cliff Copy Share Image
Scientists like myself merely use their gifts to show up that which already exists, and we look small compared to the artists… — Max Perutz Copy Share Image
It's very important to understand that we never do the same thing twice; each of our projects is unique. We'll never do… — Christo Copy Share Image
It is important to get different roles and to be seen in a different light. I am an actor. To go too… — Brandon Routh Copy Share Image
In this context of achievement-and-death, artist who make Happenings are living out the purest melodrama. Their activity embodies the myth of nonsuccess,… — Allan Kaprow Copy Share Image
The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile,… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The mother is the one supreme asset of national life; she is more important by far than the successful statesman, or business… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
An artist must first of all respond to his subject, he must be filled with emotion toward that subject and then he… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
But it is a pipe." "No, it's not," I said. It's a drawing of a pipe. Get it? All representations of a… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Leonardo da Vinci and the much younger Michelangelo had often made it clear that they had no respect for each other’s craft.… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
Not everything we do as artists has deep intent. If we push barriers, that's great, but sometimes we just do our work.… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a pariah, because all my heroes were cult artists, people who devoted their lives to poking into very… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
I have a very dear friend, a great painter, called me up very upset, the work wasn’t going well… He asked me… — Morton Feldman Copy Share Image
The only place where any artist feels liberated is doing independent music. I have had great experience making music for The Dewarists… — Amit Trivedi Copy Share Image
It has always been an ambition of mine to make a record. I'm lucky to have a good team behind me. A… — Roddy Llewellyn Copy Share Image
I feel self-conscious for even having met so many other band people and artists, I don't want to be that artist that… — Laura Jane Grace Copy Share Image
People ask me how I keep my figure, and I tell them it's because I paint. When you're covered in paint, it's… — Jane Seymour Copy Share Image
Museums have traditionally been places that protect the art object. But in the last 40 years, a new type of museum has… — Diego Cortez Copy Share Image
Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A mediocre man copying nature will never produce a work of art, because he really looks without seeing, and though he may… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
“We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it. The objects that provoke aesthetic emotion… — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
I'm really thankful to have my own record label. I've always looked up to people like Madonna when she launched Maverick Records.… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
With a brush you have control. The paint goes on the brush and you make the mark. From experience you know exactly… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
And luckily, for whatever reason, I've found people who are interested in living with and owning and existing around the DNA of… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
