The very object of an art, the principle of its artifice, is precisely to impart the impression of an ideal state in… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
I don't get into 'becauses.' When you come into a studio you see a number of works. My habit is to go… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
For instance, I may bring a certain feminist perspective to my songwriting, because that's how I see life. I'm interested in art,… — Laura Nyro Copy Share Image
The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“The real importance of automatism lay in the fact that it led to a different relation between the artist and the creative… — Michael Richardson Copy Share Image
Make a small painting of what you want to do... and project it up on a white wall... The enlarged version is… — Jim Rowe Copy Share Image
[Charlie Parker] was kind of a sponge and intrigued by it all.That's similar to what Phil [Woods] told me about Bird, too.… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
“Nor did these society people add to Elstir's work in their mind's eye that temporal perspective which enabled them to like, or… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Your eyes, accustomed to semi-darkness, will soon open to more radiant visions of light. The shadows which we shall paint shall be… — Umberto Boccioni Copy Share Image
Ideas are the old-age of art. Artists have to keep young; they must not think too much - thought is death, while… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
“This had to be kept secret, of course, since only Catholic artists were allowed to work inside the Vatican, and especially in… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
You know, painting has given me a lot of freedom, because for some reason, I've been able to paint things, organize things… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
That way of inspiration is always open, and open to everyone; it acts as go-between, interpreter, it explains symbols of the past… — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
My philosophy through all my work, be it on canvas or on the street, is about pushing boundaries and not going with… — Ben Eine Copy Share Image
Movement is the translation of life, and if art depicts life, movement should come into art, since we are only aware of… — Arshile Gorky Copy Share Image
Getting to meet other artists that I admire is one of the best parts of my job. I don't know if I'd… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
I think I didn't know what I was creating, as much as I knew what I didn't want to do. And I… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
With drama, you need to be laughing, in between takes, 'cause you're going to those recesses of your soul and those dangerous… — Josh Peck Copy Share Image
I know some people are like, 'I'm depressed, and I'm a struggling artist,' and that really works for some people, but that… — Charli XCX Copy Share Image
The great end of all arts is to make an impression on the imagination and the feeling. The imitation of nature frequently… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
The great quality of true art is that it rediscovers, grasps and reveals to us that reality far from where we live,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I'm constantly working on something new, whether it's a Garbage song, or for someone I'm producing or a song for film or… — Butch Vig Copy Share Image
I can't think outside of [bein' an artist]. That's how deep I am into this, and so focused that I really can't… — Tyga Copy Share Image
There's something to be said about the art-industrial complex, the collectors who recognize that your work has some sort of future economic… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Paul Robeson once said that the artist has the responsibility to either help liberate the community or further oppress it. And I… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
I struggle every day with trying to be a better dad, a better husband, better musician, better artist. It consumes me, and… — Harry Connick, Jr Copy Share Image
I am old enough to remember the enormous fight over Tate Modern. It is such a part of our cultural landscape now,… — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
If you see something is going wrong within politics and the world today, then some Hip Hop artist is gonna come along… — Afrika Bambaataa Copy Share Image
“It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly,” I read in the collection of letters written by Camille Pissarro to… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“Now and then, in philosophers or artists, one finds a passionate and exaggerated worship of 'pure forms': no one should doubt that… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The abstraction, ostensibly, is simply for me the penetration of something that is more profound in many ways than rigidity of a… — Beauford Delaney Copy Share Image
Most contemporary artists are behind the bubble in time. They're making videos that are so incredibly boring compared to a good movie.… — Alex Katz Copy Share Image
“The Greeks shape bronze statues so real they seem to breathe, And carve cold marble until it almost comes to life. The… — Virgil Copy Share Image
We ordinary people must forge our own beauty. We must set fire to the greyness of our labor with the art of… — Kenji Miyazawa Copy Share Image
You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it; as an artist, you objectify and fetishize… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“my problem is that my body acts before my brain thinks... it sometimes brings me huge trouble, or also huge success. recently,… — Hiroko Sakai Copy Share Image
If you want to speak about different ethnicities and diversity, rap and hip-hop are all over the planet. Every country, from Turkey… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
I hope my pieces have an authenticity to them, but my job is to filter the world and tell a story, not… — Abi Morgan Copy Share Image
![“[Charlie Parker] was kind of a sponge and intrigued by it all.That's similar to what Phil [Woods] told me about Bird, too. Like he was into cooking. He was just into a lot of things. Yeah, it's about dealing with bebop and jazz and Trane [John Coltrain] and post-Trane and knowing the history. But…” quote by Jon Gordon](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/a35/jon-gordon-1655_art_charlie-parker-was-kind-of-a-sponge-and_2500883.png)
![“I can't think outside of [bein' an artist]. That's how deep I am into this, and so focused that I really can't think, like, if I wasn't an artist, what I'd be doin' in school. I'm pretty sure I'd be doin' it - if I didn't go into music, I'd be working, have a regular job or something probably, and…” quote by Tyga](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/94f/tyga-579_age_i-can-t-think-outside-of-bein-an-artist_1239974.jpg)
