“The same thing is true of the experience of art. Here the scholarly research pursued by the "science of art" is aware… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
Because I'm an art historian, I have some experience of writing that comes out of close attention. That's what really art history… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“..Abigail's singing while I painted. How we laughed so when no one was watching. And how finding a black-eyed Susan tucked into… — Adriana Mather Copy Share Image
Arts and the Sciences are a natural symbiosis. They stem from the same human existential impulse - exploration. Exploration of what lies… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was and is and forever will be strictly and distinctly a… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
As an artist - I'm sure like most creative people - you have a kind of board of directors that you make… — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
Oh my God, everyday is a constant struggle and battle. Especially with an artist like me, when what I am doing is… — Syleena Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm always interested in hearing how other people read and react to my songs. I hadn't thought of it in just that… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
Painting is a duality and abstract painting is an entirely aesthetic thing. It always remains on one level. It is only really… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I assumed from the outset that photography was already art, and that I and other people working in photography were artists. I… — Lewis Baltz Copy Share Image
The things of nature are the Lord's silent ministers, given to us to teach us spiritual truths. They speak to us of… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
Body art isn’t a contest. The only person that has to like it is the person stuck with it for the rest… — Jay Crownover Copy Share Image
There is some other form that you contain within yourself that is not will or purpose and, when applied to art, serves… — Milton Resnick Copy Share Image
I became tired of submitting my art to a panel of corporate strategists who decide if it meets their standard of what… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
Your soul is a seeker, lover and artist; shape-shifting through archetypal energy, between your darkness and fields of light, your body and… — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
Actors in general are pretty good bullshit artists; we're good at just chewing the fat, interacting with people. So we're good ambassadors… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
I think art is the ability to change people with your work, to see things as they are and then create stories,… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
To be a songwriter-singer means the songs come from deep within, and you treat them as an artist, with that much respect.… — Roy Orbison Copy Share Image
I was getting tired of hearing the complaint, 'My kid could do this,' and 'We don’t get it. What’s modern art? Blah,… — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
The human mind cannot go beyond the gift of God, the Holy Ghost. To suppose that art can go beyond the finest… — William Blake Copy Share Image
To draw does not simply mean to reproduce contours; the drawing does not simply consist in the idea: the drawing is even… — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Copy Share Image
“I'm no pessimist. I don't loathe art because I couldn't live without devoting all my time to it. I love it as… — Ingo F. Walther Copy Share Image
There is a childlike side in the work of the Dadaists, Klee, Miró, Calder and Picasso. I am trying to make things… — Yaacov Agam Copy Share Image
“Despite what he calls the “paradoxical ascent of social practice art in a socially bankrupt world,” and “an inversion of artistic taste”… — Gregory Sholette Copy Share Image
I am an artist who's just tryin' to do something different, and basically not caring about everybody's opinions and wanting to follow… — Tyga Copy Share Image
It is the psychic depression of decadence which has come to this place and time. It is what happens to people who… — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
One of the marks of true genius is a quality of abundance. A rich, rollicking abundance, enough to give indigestion to ordinary… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
Each artist comes to the painting or sculpture because there he can be told that he, the individual, transcends all classes and… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
I am an idealist. I often feel I would like to be an artist in an ivory tower. Yet it is imperative… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
There are times when I prefer a cerebral moment with an artist, and I'll just enjoy the wit of a Picabia or… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
People drink to numb the pain and suffering. I think it's the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist.… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing… — Walter Crane Copy Share Image
“Eyes have not seen nor ears heard, neither hath it entered into the hearts of men, the things which God hath prepared… — Neville Goddard Copy Share Image
You're taught that it's not very likely for you to become successful... that odds are you're going to be a struggling artist… — Kali Uchis Copy Share Image
An artist makes something to be physically experienced by another person. It's a raw, freely chosen, interpersonal relationship between the maker and… — Philip Taaffe Copy Share Image
So much of my work is defined by the difference between the figure in the foreground and the background. Very early in… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Street artists need to get back to actually doing things on the streets instead of in the galleries where they all seem… — Barry McGee Copy Share Image
Art is about asking questions and engaging a dialog. By challenging or investigating conventions contemporary art helps promote an on-going sense of… — Kim Anderson Copy Share Image
Is the biographer an artist who can and should exist on equal terms with the dramatist, fiction writer and poet? The short… — Tom Paulin Copy Share Image
I think that's one of the hardest parts as an artist, and creating a career, is the song is what is gonna… — Matthew Ramsey Copy Share Image
![“There is a childlike side in the work of the Dadaists, Klee, Miró, Calder and Picasso. I am trying to make things that are very, very serious, and what comes out of it is things that are quite friendly, gay, and sometimes even amusing. [Chaim] Soutine tried to work like Rembrandt, and yet there is…” quote by Yaacov Agam](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/e1c/yaacov-agam-77088_amusing_there-is-a-childlike-side-in-the-work-of_1972781.jpg)
