I started off as a graffiti artist in the South Bronx. My tag name was 'Loco' because I would go crazy and… — Swizz Beatz Copy Share Image
I've watched so many women, from Kathleen Hanna all the way up to Taylor Swift, whether they're pop artists or rock stars… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
Great art... is the result of the labours of thousands of faithful craftsmen who know that they are doomed to remain for… — Hendrik Willem van Loon Copy Share Image
If you have an idea, you have to move on it, to make a gesture. Drawing is an immediate way of articulating… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
The Art Snob can be recognized in the home by the quick look he gives the pictures on your walls, quick but… — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
“Great art comes from passion, from a need to expose human spirit in the face of mortality, the small cruelties and heroisms… — Deb Margolis Copy Share Image
“Life is a canvas. Don't let others create it for you, you have to create it the way you want it to… — LaLee Burger Copy Share Image
I've gone through a lot of trial and error to find what works and what doesn't, ... With that comes an understanding… — Usher Copy Share Image
The talents of an artist, small or great, are God-given. They've nothing to do with the private person; they're nothing to be… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
But we must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life; that the art of life is the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Making something good and saying something brilliant are not two things. When you make your own statement, there is a higher energy… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
I've always loved doing covers. Some artists don't like covers. Some listeners don't like covers. But I love them. It gives you… — Greg Laswell Copy Share Image
When I see my work in a gallery I often wonder how I got to this point. Sometimes the process of making… — Polixeni Papapetrou Copy Share Image
True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society… — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Humans have terrible passions that can go either way: create or destroy, it all depends on where they emerge. Art is not… — Jessica Zafra Copy Share Image
“Cornwallis was a man who could have thrust his hand in a flame if necessary, but not a man to organize the… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
I've always thought for myself, that's something I want to focus on - color palette and the use of color. Rather than… — Gucci Westman Copy Share Image
I am sure that there is no place in the world where your message would not be enhanced by your making the… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
So scream your heart out you are the chosen you gotta show them silence is the enemy scream it out loud we… — Papa Roach Copy Share Image
There are so many people, so many artists, so many magazines, so many theater companies, so many people trying to raise money… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
Yes, I want to make amazing, enduring albums that are perfect. But I also want to make what I want to make… — Lola Young Copy Share Image
The art and architecture of the past that we know is that which remains. The best is that which remains where it… — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
There ought to be an artistic depot where the artist need only hand in his artwork in order to receive what he… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
When an artist, or whomever, moves from their scene to the bigger pond, it starts getting crazy, because all of a sudden… — Grimes Copy Share Image
If a painting of a tree was only the exact representation of the original, so that it looked just like the tree,… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to say that the masterpiece to which you… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
I was always a creative child. I also liked to paint and draw. All those years of doing those types of things,… — Bianca Del Rio Copy Share Image
“I will contend until I am shot that art as soon as it is brought into contact with politics inevitably sinks to… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
And I'm not even just talking artists, every single person in this nation has the right to be themselves, live life go… — K. D. Lang Copy Share Image
In this drawing we just let our imagination run wild. We visualized Superman toys, games, and a radio show - that was… — Joe Shuster Copy Share Image
There's this idea of bankers retiring and painting watercolours. You can't dabble in art - it's a life. Being a writer, an… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
It would be inadmissible if I would vent my opinion publicly. Not only could I harm the artist concerned seriously because people… — Fela Kuti Copy Share Image
My process is really quite organic, and starting a painting is one of the best parts for me. I always start in… — Cecily Brown Copy Share Image
Some of these sketches were done at the very beginning of the Pirates project, when I was trying to find a direction… — Marc Davis Copy Share Image
A band has a certain responsibility to work songs for years and stick to rules more. A solo artist can just do… — Christopher Owens Copy Share Image
I can't honestly say where the inspiration for my work came from. I think it came from reading. It came from texts,… — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
“The Wisdom of Solomon (Carl) They censor words not the things they denote: It would create less of a stir to drop… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people are involved in art because of the fashion of art and the conversation. It gives them… — Laurence Graff Copy Share Image
The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter… — John Berger Copy Share Image
I want to suggest to you that the day of the artists has come. That there are things about symbols and the… — Graham Cray Copy Share Image
