Art imitates nature not in its effects as such, but in its causes, in its 'manner,' in its process, which are nothing… — Paul Claudel Copy Share Image
I discovered that what's really important for a creator isn't what we vaguely define as inspiration or even what it is we… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
Take a bunch of little kids to the beach and they all make art. Adults are too stupid to call it art,… — Buffy Sainte-Marie Copy Share Image
Any great artist is wrestling with their sadness and loneliness, their fears, anxieties and securities, and they're transfiguring those into complicated forms… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I come from an art history background. I studied at a master's degree level; I chose to dork out on art for… — Black Francis Copy Share Image
If one believes philosophers, then what we call religion is only a deliberately popularized or an instinctively artless philosophy. Poets seem to… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
When someone has to do work for me, I lose my mind. I can't help it, I'm a bit of a control… — Zomby Copy Share Image
Berlin seems like a place of healing to me though: you have both the Holocaust Memorial and Hiroshima Strasse side-by-side there. You… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
If today's arts love the machine, technology and organization, if they aspire to precision and reject anything vague and dreamy, this implies… — Oskar Schlemmer Copy Share Image
Any combining, mixing, adding, diluting, exploiting, vulgarizing, or popularizing of abstract art deprives art of its essence and depraves the artist's artistic… — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
I mean everything's a lot more smoother. It's just calm. IN the beginning, I had the typical attitude of a young rapper… — The Notorious B.I.G Copy Share Image
One thing living in Japan did for me was to make me feel that what is left out of a work of… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
What is it about conformity itself that causes us all to require it of our neighbors and of our artists and then,… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
Talks on art are almost useless. The work which goes to bring progress in one's own subject is sufficient compensation for the… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
I think a 23-page ordinary comic is an investment for the artist, but if you're doing something 60 to 104 pages, that's… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“If we are as free as we like to believe, then it makes sense that we are free to choose who we… — Cristian Mihai Copy Share Image
It is the poet and philosopher who provide the community of objectives in which the artist participates. Their chief preoccupation, like the… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
You can't change people's minds, we are not God. We can do our best to do what we do, whatever job we… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
For me, body art is all about expression; it's a lifestyle and can serve as a reminder that when my career is… — Edge Copy Share Image
Guido the plumber and Michelangelo obtained their marble from the same quarry, but what each saw in the marble made the difference… — Rob Kall Copy Share Image
I don't know everybody's political opinions, but I think the majority of people in the arts are pretty leftist, and we're disappointed… — Paul Sparks Copy Share Image
Painting, especially much better than words, allows oneself to express the various stages of thought, including the deeper levels, the underground stages… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
“An ironic religion -- one that never claims to be absolutely true but only professes to be relatively beautiful, and never promises… — Alex Shakar Copy Share Image
I dont care who you are as a musician or what you do as a musician, when they put that microphone in… — Jasari Copy Share Image
Olafur Eliasson is also one of the most visionary artists I've ever met. He is from Denmark and Iceland, and his focus… — Victor Pinchuk Copy Share Image
I have no regrets. I have not one single regret. I was born with a wonderful DNA where I felt that my… — Andy Kim Copy Share Image
It's very true that an artist who networks well will have better opportunities than one who doesn't network well. But great networking… — Mark Kostabi Copy Share Image
I want to talk to the bullied kids of the world. Tell them to hang on, it will get better. Know that… — Cat Cora Copy Share Image
Art doesn't sell like things people are used too.. Because art is unique.. but when the art is noticed over time and… — Novi Novak Copy Share Image
Increasingly, to dismiss any popular artistic style is seen as the worst kind of snobbery. And snobbery, it goes without saying, is… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
Artists reach areas far beyond the reach of politicians. Art, especially entertainment and music, is understood by everybody, and it lifts the… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
For a long time, I've distinguished between entertainer and performer and entertainer and artist. To me, an entertainer is someone who pleases… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Art is a means of memorialization of the past, a record of a rapidly vanishing world; a means of exorcising, at least… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
A painter is always overjoyed when anybody pays any attention to him at all, puts him in any category, calls him anything… — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
When I first met Big, we were both at a 'Bad Boy' family photo shoot. I was kind of familiar with the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was setting out to be an artist, I said: If I can just produce one work that some people think… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
Often, I find it really hard to see what I'm doing when I'm in the thick of things. I can get too… — Cecily Brown Copy Share Image
I want to be more than just a musician or an artist and I felt that I achieved that, with Forbes. I… — Momina Mustehsan Copy Share Image
Women face a lot of challenges every day - we have to stand firm in our walk and our intentions - but… — Solange Knowles Copy Share Image
