I don't think you have to struggle to make good art. I think you have to be passionate to make good art.… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
The Illusionist is the storyteller in so many ways. Symbols become his obsession. It's not simply about creating plot - one must… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
Only my current situation has enabled me to accomplish the expensive task of demonstrating that the preferred sustenance of painting is painting. — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would… — Caleb Carr Copy Share Image
Art is an act of the soul, not the intellect. When we are dealing with people's dreams - their visions, really -… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I've taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years.… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
At first it was difficult for me to draw. My right hand doesn't work anymore so I had to train myself to… — Edwyn Collins Copy Share Image
I really have to think of myself as a painter first because sculpture came much, much later. As a student at the… — Robert Indiana Copy Share Image
The impulse for me to want to make sculpture is because I want to make statements, really, on a purely emotional level.… — Arthur Ganson Copy Share Image
From the very early stage when I started doing performance art in the '70s, the general attitude - not just me, but… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
No form of nature is inferior to art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms. - Variant: There is no nature which… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“In its vulgar way, a painstaking piece of work, although one must always remember—something often forgotten today—that because things are generally known,… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
I think as much as possible, an artist, if he has any kind of social or political concern, has to…expose as much… — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
Out of all the isms, movements and manifestos of the 20th century, it was the Dadaists who proved the most important -… — Vic Reeves Copy Share Image
The essential argument in the book, 'Art as Therapy,' is that art enjoys such financial and cultural prestige that it's easy to… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
When I was making my debut as an artist, I felt that it was very important that I try to combine the… — Takashi Murakami Copy Share Image
Cubism came about because, in the process of analyzing form, something that lay in the form, a plane, could be lifted out… — Joseph Plaskett Copy Share Image
I would not necessarily say that scientists and artists need to collaborate with one another, but it would be helpful for them… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
“ That's when I got it. The rough canvas. God paints our bodies over that, over our heart and soul. It's the… — Joey W. Hill Copy Share Image
'Modern Love' completes the EP as an intricate musical piece weaving in and out of complex rhythms. There is even a beatless… — Subb-an Copy Share Image
Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted,… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
It has been a sort of maxim, that the greatest art is to conceal art; but I know not how, among some… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
“Abstract design is all right—for wallpaper or linoleum. But art is the process of evoking pity or terror, which is not abstract… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“A young artist's career is a matter of claiming a place for oneself, of saying, "I am here." Having gone through that… — Wafaa Bilal Copy Share Image
A lot of people want to blow up as a producer, but what helps you blow up as a producer is an… — Zaytoven Copy Share Image
I've been collecting since college, .. When we're children, we're taught to draw in the lines, use certain colors. In this art,… — Beverly L. Kaye Copy Share Image
The thing I am most interested in is power relations - it is so easy in a relationship like that [of an… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
If an artist and a scientist have a common point, it is probably in the need for some kind of imaginative thinking… — Catherine Yass Copy Share Image
People romanticize struggle and obscurity, and I get that, but it's a very one-dimensional argument to say that people who have money… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
Basically the message is: Steal It! Art, music, culture, the odd book and the slab of cheese... the new will be built… — Buenaventura Durruti Copy Share Image
I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting. I hope to show that… — John Constable Copy Share Image
Early in school, they called me 'the artist.' When teachers wanted things painted, they called upon me, they called upon 'the artist.'… — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Copy Share Image
Perhaps the rhinos and she-crocodiles whose gyrations between Mortimer's and East Hampton gives us our vision of social eminence today are content… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
People's live are expressed in little details…The soap in the bathroom, the flowers in the garden, the books on the bedside table… — Charlotte Moss Copy Share Image
When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Now the work of art also represents a state of final equilibrium, of accomplished order and maximum relative entropy, and there are… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
“I have treated many artists. There are among them many neurotics, so many that one finally comes to believe that one cannot… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
All I tell artists is, 'Do what you love. Never let anybody talk you into changing what your musical idea is just… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
“What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who only has eyes, if he is a painter, or ears if he… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
![“I think as much as possible, an artist, if he has any kind of social or political concern, has to…expose as much as possible what he sees so that some people think about things that they don’t normally think about… [Art] should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and…” quote by Keith Haring](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/9ee/keith-haring-14071_art_i-think-as-much-as-possible-an-artist-if_138866.jpg)
![“The thing I am most interested in is power relations - it is so easy in a relationship like that [of an artist and a gallery manager], to imagine that the other person is living a perfect life.” quote by Miranda July](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/7d7/miranda-july-1600_artist_the-thing-i-am-most-interested-in-is-pow_70745.jpg)
