The artist, viewing his fellows through his personal vision, has through the ages attempted to portray what he sees and to present… — Hollis Alpert Copy Share Image
I believe that the artist's feelings are in some way generative. And I suspect that much of the artist's most productive emotion… — Carter Ratcliff Copy Share Image
It’s about reaching that moment of pure ecstasy when a drawing just happens. Where every move you make with your hand and… — Jamie Hewlett Copy Share Image
I have long accepted that an art fair is not a perfectly curated museum show. Instead, it's more like a brightly lit… — Elisabeth von Thurn und Taxis Copy Share Image
The thing is, if you're going to take the artistic path, you sort of have to make peace with the idea or… — Lela Loren Copy Share Image
It's a very scary time for a lot of people; they feel scared to speak up. There's so much controversy even speaking… — Lauren Jauregui Copy Share Image
When I say art influences me, which it does, it's not at all in a literal form. You go and see exhibitions… — Francisco Costa Copy Share Image
[On John Tunnard:] One day a marvelous man in a highly elaborate tweed coat walked into the gallery. He looked a little… — Peggy Guggenheim Copy Share Image
I've never been an artist that really got into fluff songs. I like songs that have substance to them. I think sometimes… — Tracy Lawrence Copy Share Image
Jerry Goldsmith is an artist who meets all the demands upon the composer in films. He communicates, integrates, subordinates, supports, and designs… — Jerry Goldsmith Copy Share Image
There's something about TV shows and the format that becomes a bit more personal. People watch two, three in a row before… — Jay Baruchel Copy Share Image
“He wondered what percentage of the world's art was actually kept in bank vaults and the like. Like unread books and unplayed… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
Art is a course in personal development that has no reliable diploma and no known end. The pursuit of art instructs in… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
There is force and vitality in a first sketch from life which the after-work rarely has... In your sketches keep the first… — William Morris Hunt Copy Share Image
When a collector says, "You've got to educate me," or "What's a good investment?" then I don't know what to say. I… — Larry Gagosian Copy Share Image
I think that I'm going to be including a lot of anonymous female artists in what I look at and incorporate. Most… — Laura Owens Copy Share Image
In the medieval tradition, Beksinski seems to believe art to be a forewarning about the fragility of the flesh– whatever pleasures we… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
Mission accomplished. The Museum of Modern Art's wide-open, tall-ceilinged, super-reinforced second floor was for all intents and purposes built to accommodate monumental… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
In any piece of art, the artist pours themselves into it. It becomes a reflection of who they are and what they… — Travis Knight Copy Share Image
If the image was sketched onto the canvas and spontaneously drawn, colour would often be restrained and unfree... The most important and… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
I recommend that you should work actively... and study the artistic structures of Rubens, Rembrandt, Titian, Watteau, Poussin, and other painters, even… — Kazimir Malevich Copy Share Image
The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I didn't dare to think of anything then except the "facts." To get beneath the facts I would have had to be… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I cannot judge my work while I am doing it. I have to do as painters do, stand back and view it… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“That's initially what got me interested in painting, is that I could create any kind of world that I wanted. No bad… — Bob Ross Copy Share Image
“Rumfoord had known that Constant would try to debase the picture by using it in commerce. Constant's father had done a similar… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I'd really want to - just from my own experience as an artist working with a writer, I'd want to do everything… — David Finch Copy Share Image
“Making art can feel dangerous and revealing. Making art is dangerous and revealing. Making art precipitates self-doubt, stirring deep waters that lay… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
Nature contains the elements, in colour and form, of all pictures, as the keyboard contains the notes of all music. But the… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
“There has to be something other than keeping busy that gives human life value, because our society so often functions as if… — Tasha Golden Copy Share Image
When we look at a painting, or hear a symphony, or read a book, and feel more Named, then, for us, that… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I don't like to work in an office. I like to work in my house, to be among my own thoughts. The… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
“Art has to be a kind of confession. I don’t mean a true confession in the sense of that dreary magazine. The… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
I think it's a very important function of art to challenge accepted reality, especially when that reality is created by powerful interest… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I remember being backstage in my full look and the make-up artist said to me: ‘Did you hear? Kendall Jenner is here.’… — Kendall Jenner Copy Share Image
It is not about which artist is more skilled than which other artist. It is about creating what is in you to… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
Here, reality is not subordinated to painting, indeed painting seems the handmaid of reality, though we feel it tending towards a procedure… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
Drawing never dies, it holds on by the skin of its teeth, because the hunger it satisfies – the desire for an… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Study the great brush drawings of the Chinese and Japanese... When we try to imitate their conventions for perspective, form and texture… — John French Sloan Copy Share Image