Very sacred is the vocation of the artist, who has to do directly with the works of God, and interpret the teaching… — Jason 'J' Brown Copy Share Image
For many, an album is no longer a considerable feat of an artist but just sounds to be half-listened to while one… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
My uncles represented a strength and a power I think that to a certain degree I looked up to. But from another… — Willie Herron Copy Share Image
“Cézanne, too, had had enough of psychology. He attended, instead, to color. "If I paint all the little blues and all the… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“You are right to demand that an author be conscious of what he is doing, but you are confusing two concepts: solving… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music… — Bjork Copy Share Image
Realism is a philosophy as opposed to a style. For me, painting is about observing and recording my existence as accurately as… — David Kassan Copy Share Image
If within the last century art conceived as an autonomous activity has come to be invested with an unprecedented stature - the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Art itself cannot be taught, but craftsmanship can. Architects, painters, sculptors are all craftsmen in the original sense of the word. Thus… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
I may not be much good at most things, but if I didn't have the pleasure of planning and installing shows, and… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
I can see forms and shapes in my mind when I solo, just as a painter can see forms and shapes when… — Elvin Jones Copy Share Image
Computer programming is an art, because it applies accumulated knowledge to the world, because it requires skill and ingenuity, and especially because… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
I had just been doing graffiti around New York and this real estate investor guy had walked through meat packing in New… — Alec Monopoly Copy Share Image
The artist cannot look to others to validate his efforts or his calling. If you don't believe me, ask Van Gogh, who… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
As an artist, you can't expect a producer to just bring you a record. If you walk in and say, 'I want… — John Gourley Copy Share Image
The Kirtaniyas are in the new wave of younger Kirtan artists bringing the divine practice of Bhakti from the ancient to the… — Jai Uttal Copy Share Image
Vincent van Gogh's mother painted all of his best things. The famous mailed decapitated ear was a figment of the public relations… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
I think art cannot be planned. The audience is too smart to get the dishonesty or 'too much planning' thing. I am… — Priyanka Chopra Copy Share Image
Don't make the mistake of believing it's enough to reproduce the realities of life… The object of art is to give life… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
“You paint it,” he responds. “You are a specialist in darkness.” I tell him, “I didn’t live through it.” He says, “We… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“It was held that the six great arts – visual art (including architecture and photography), drama, dance, music, film and literature –… — Peter Abbs Copy Share Image
The day I decided I didn't want to be a 19th-Century European curator, I knew I would never have the experience of… — Thelma Golden Copy Share Image
People who look at my painting say that it makes them happy, like the feeling when you wake up in the morning.… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
I think it's important to earn your fan base and not just try to immediately advance to the top. If you ride… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
An artist cannot get along without a public; and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
“Your impression of him as a respectable man brings to my mind the work of a painter whose pictures show attractively at… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
I think everything you do in life is art. What you do. The way you dress. The way you love someone, and… — Nate Copy Share Image
I take the palette with me, but I have a lot of makeup. I was a makeup artist when I was younger,… — Gwen Stefani Copy Share Image
The first album was a very successful record. It made me very visible and it's an immediate association, but I don't do… — Phoebe Snow Copy Share Image
“Archaeologists have not yet discovered any stage of human existence without art. Even in the half-light before the dawn of humanity we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I know if I wasn't making music and acting, I would be involved in the performing arts world in some way. I… — Claudia Lee Copy Share Image
Kinkade's paintings are worthless schmaltz, and the lamestream media that love him are wrong. However, I'd love to see a museum mount… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I really enjoy writing lyrics, I enjoy harmonies and I enjoy hearing the organic side of production because I have to do… — Butch Walker Copy Share Image
I never had the sense of myself as an accomplished artist, and I always had to work three times as hard as… — Toshiko Takaezu Copy Share Image
The shaman is the figure at the beginning of human history that unites the doctor, the scientist and the artist into a… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I tend to write first thing, and then do my drawing later. I like to draw at night. But often I go… — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
When a mother takes pictures of her children on the beach, she doesn't take herself for an artist; she does it for… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
“Van Gogh on his brother's upcoming marriage: "It’s because he’s in Holland, where he’s getting married one of these days. Now, while… — Liesbeth Heenk Copy Share Image
I started studying as an artist, but I got fed up with the fact that you can paint terrible pictures and if… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
