Artists have different responsibilities in different eras. But at this point, I really feel like it's all hands on deck. An artist… — Anohni Copy Share Image
There's an axiom I live by: 'There is no art without politics.' You either choose to engage it, or you choose political… — Chris Jordan Copy Share Image
A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
In one gallery they actually had a notice which said No Sketching. How obnoxious! I said, How do you think these things… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
We all must support the arts, as it is our culture. It makes us better people. It makes us happy; it gives… — Imelda Staunton Copy Share Image
The whole point about vision is that it's very individual, it's very personal, and it has to be confessional. It has to… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize.… — Nate Ruess Copy Share Image
Abstract expression is so solid, so successful and recognizable, but there's a mystery about the artists that goes into it, a fetishism… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
What is sublime? / the artist said. / I haven't time / to be well read. / To be sub lime /… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Another year is fast approaching. Go be that starving artist you’re afraid to be. Open up that journal and get poetic finally.… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
I believe that art is a tool and that, like all tools, it has functions. I also think it is important to… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I cannot with any real integrity perform songs I've done for 25 years. I don't need the money. What I need is… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I visited the Museum of Modern Art and viewed the exhibition of Picasso's sculptures, and I couldn't help but think about what… — Jerry Pinkney Copy Share Image
What's interesting about young black American artists within the twentieth century, and increasingly within the twenty-first as well, is that there's this… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I wasn't born an artist. I was really good in science as a kid. I probably shouldn't have been an artist because… — Julie Delpy Copy Share Image
As a filmmaker, like any artist, when something affects me emotionally I think about it in those terms. It's my way of… — Ryan Coogler Copy Share Image
I don't know what else I would do. I love entertaining people, I love communicating, I love an audience. I'm a real… — Suzi Quatro Copy Share Image
Man, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My attitude was… — Nas Copy Share Image
If that one is already a great artist, who knows how to educe from a small piece of wood the face of… — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share Image
One of my inspirations, Harry Houdini, remains an icon of the art because he defied our primal fears. His demonstrations in the… — Criss Angel Copy Share Image
You see a child play, and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child says things… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
O.P.N. has always been about reaching for some kind of liminal state in which opposing aesthetic forces become entangled and confused and… — Oneohtrix Point Never Copy Share Image
There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking artist he needed rest, needed… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Babymetal's music is something that no artist has attempted in the past, uniting people as one by crossing language barriers and national… — Suzuka Nakamoto Copy Share Image
In the bedroom darkness I may visualise a way of making a painting. I can see it - if I do this… — Jules Olitski Copy Share Image
I hadn't known anything else, other than being an artist, and I needed to be a person for a while, really get… — Tove Styrke Copy Share Image
I think one of the both liberating and terrifying prospects from synthetic biology for example is that you are going to have… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
Until the late 1970s there'd either be only black or white in the paintings or if there were colours it would be… — Matthew Collings Copy Share Image
All great chefs have two things in common. First, they respect nature as the true artist, and they are just cooks. Second,… — Marco Pierre White Copy Share Image
Well, as an artist, I think that Elvis's generosity to me he always talked very highly about me, he always spoke very… — Jackie DeShannon Copy Share Image
Even when I illustrate multiple articles on the same person, the focus of the pieces are never the same, so I automatically… — Noma Bar Copy Share Image
An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all... feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft,… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
It's hard to put into words the impact of the perfect lyric, melody or contagious beat that moves you in an unexpected… — Leopold Stokowski Copy Share Image
There's something pleasing about large, well-lit spaces. I love that dealers are willing to take massive chances in order to give this… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I would like to say a few things about that photo in 'Tatler'. I have no regrets. The article was about the… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
Ignorance and arrogance are the artist's and entrepreneur's indispensable allies. She must be clueless enough to have no idea how difficult her… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
“But the important point here is not that you have — or don’t have — what other artists have, but rather that… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
It is not the job of artists to give the audience what the audience want. If the audience knew what they needed,… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
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