Avant-garde theatre, with its distrust of the individual (that bourgeois invention), tends to go beyond [character] and the psychological approach in search… — Patrice Pavis Copy Share Image
It's like every time you have one of these, you're sort of - your lease is renewed another five years. And that's… — Mark Ronson Copy Share Image
I did not want to be the gay artist, and I talked to my manager all the time, like, I don't want… — Hayley Kiyoko Copy Share Image
I guess at my core, I'm an artist. And so the opportunity to utilize my imagination, create things and share stories is… — Judy Norton Copy Share Image
All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed… — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
The greatest compliment I ever got was when people called me an artist, and I understand that solo aspect of being an… — John McEnroe Copy Share Image
I've always just done things that come naturally, and that's always been surrounding myself with artists that I respect and that are… — Janina Gavankar Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I work serially, but also one of the reasons that I try to claim space in painting, is… — Cynthia Daignault Copy Share Image
As an artist who lives here and wants a more sophisticated engagement between local social dynamics and global discourse, it's great to… — Jon Rubin Copy Share Image
Painting keeps me occupied in those moments when travel can be aimless and even disorienting. Mainly it is a way to register… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
When I work as an art director, I don't ask to see sketches from illustrators or photographers. I give them a basic… — David Carson Copy Share Image
In a way, art is a great way to release your love, fantasy, and desires. It's like a fetish. It's a comfortable… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
I feel that I am much freer if I'm on my own, but I'm sure that there are a lot of painters… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
In any country, in any city, there will be political influence on what is said, what kind of images are to be… — Cai Guo-Qiang Copy Share Image
Venues are all the same, all feel the same, these generic blank spaces. I like artists like Lightning Bolt-bands that go in… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
Art is not an investment. Art is something you buy because you are financially solvent enough to give yourself a pleasure of… — Arne Glimcher Copy Share Image
“Fantasy like thought that no man could rain Just let her reign Run wild with her unafraid Of any rain storms They… — Maquita Donyel Irvin Copy Share Image
We want to decipher skies and paintings, go behind these starry backgrounds or these painted canvases and, like kids trying to find… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But I am a lover of all kinds of art. And I just can't stick to one thing. I guess I could… — Andre Benjamin Copy Share Image
“This recognition of the truth we get in the artist’s work comes to us as a revelation of new truth. I want… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest,… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
'Jazz Artist of the Century' would have to be a distinctive soloist and ensemble player, a composer, an arranger, a bandleader, and… — Dave Douglas Copy Share Image
I felt the need to get back to painting and I thought the best way was to start drawing, so I enrolled… — Peter Wright Copy Share Image
When I was in college, I had a friend who was an artist and her theory was that all the best art… — Micah Perks Copy Share Image
The artist's work constitutes the only satisfactory relationship he can have with his fellow men since he seeks his real friends among… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
The great artist when he comes, uses everything that has been discovered or known about his art up to that point, being… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
There's a lot of difference between being well known and being notorious and the black paintings didn't make me well known -… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
The compelling thing about making art—or making anything, I suppose—is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
Of course Nebraska is a storehouse of literary material. Everywhere is a storehouse of literary material. If a true artist were born… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
I wanted to make photographs that were immediate and revealing - different from traditional portraiture that called for formal distance between artist… — Wendy Ewald Copy Share Image
I've never found anything to be lacking in a blurry canvas. Quite the contrary: you can see many more things in it… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
What's exciting about being an artist, still, and what I'm really finding is awesome is that you can do it until you… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
Earlier in this century, philanthropy often flowed from the wills of dead industrialists. In recent decades, it's as likely to have come… — Michael Milken Copy Share Image
My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
Photography is a medium of formidable contradictions. It is both ridiculously easy and almost impossibly difficult. It is easy because its technical… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
Among artists without talent Marxism will always be popular, since it enables them to blame society for the fact that nobody wants… — Clive James Copy Share Image
For the artist, fulfillment of self consists not in marching in the ranks of the liberators but in being entered in the… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
It would have to stand on the basis of what somebody had done to it and that would be the basis on… — Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
I began working within the streets of Harlem, where, after graduating from Yale [University, New Haven, CT], I became the artist in… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
![“Avant-garde theatre, with its distrust of the individual (that bourgeois invention), tends to go beyond [character] and the psychological approach in search of a syntax of types and characters which are "deconstructed and post-individual.” quote by Patrice Pavis](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/c22/patrice-pavis-72351_approach_avant-garde-theatre-with-its-distrust-of_59690.jpg)
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![“I began working within the streets of Harlem, where, after graduating from Yale [University, New Haven, CT], I became the artist in residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem [New York, NY]. I wanted to know what that was about. I would actually pull people from off of the streets and ask them to…” quote by Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/dd2/kehinde-wiley-1194_art_i-began-working-within-the-streets-of-ha_2894302.jpg)
