Creativity belongs to the artist in each of us. To create means to relate. The root meaning of the word art is… — Corita Kent Copy Share Image
I think the art world... is a very small pond, and it's a very inbred pond. They rely on information from an… — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
It feels like my job is to support people. I support great artists. When I worked with a symphony, I sat in… — Nile Rodgers Copy Share Image
There is a legend of an artist who long sought for a piece of sandalwood, out of which to carve a Madonna.… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
There is no one harder to live with than an artist. Therefore an artist is a real gift because he or she… — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
“To erase the possibility of empathy is also to erase the possibility of art. Theater, fiction, horror stories, love stories. This is… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
Rational intelligence is dangerous and leads to ratiocination. The painter is a medium who doesn't realize what he is doing. No translation… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Life and art had a nice parallel, in the sense of coming together as strangers who are separate in prison who need… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
I started to draw desert islands. They were just rough, shapes in the middle of the page. Then I began drawing shapes… — Billy Connolly Copy Share Image
There is always a struggle, a striving for something bigger than yourself in all forms of art. And even if you don't… — Rex Harrison Copy Share Image
Then very slowly I go to slightly lighter colors until little by little, the forms begin to take shape and I start… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you can tune into an emotion or experience that is universal, and draw it, sing it or write it so that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Eakins rejected gentlemen athletics as his theme. Instead, he took a subject that had been the stuff of illustrated weeklies and the… — Barry S. Strauss Copy Share Image
In art as in politics we must deal with people as they are not as we wish them to be. Only by… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
However, the painter of the future will be a colorist, such as has never yet existed. Manet was working towards it, but… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I'll be honest, I worry sometimes about what I've done. I have tied my whole person to my art and, whatever it… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
If I had the capabilities of being something other than I am, I would. It's no fun being an artist. You know… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I have great admiration and respect for the editors, writers, and artists of the comic books. They're turning out, I don't know,… — Michael Uslan Copy Share Image
In art, there is one thing which does not receive sufficient attention. The element which is left to the human will is… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
It’s about a singer who first sneered about my allegedly not authentic style but later she stole and copied it. And now… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
“Creative work bridges time because the energy of art is not time-bound. If it were we should have no interest in the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Art is about forgetting all these feelings, good and bad, and trying to understand what acts will last longer, which symbols will… — Maurizio Cattelan Copy Share Image
I'd love to be an artist that's multifaceted. At the moment, I am not. But wouldn't that be cool if I was… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
Every normal human being (and not merely the 'artist') has an inexhaustible store of buried images in his subconscious, it is merely… — Max Ernst Copy Share Image
On "Tonight" I think I was torn dreadfully between writing what I wanted to write, but keeping it in a style that… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
“Saku's figure before me looked like a morning glory drawn with one stroke of the brush. My only regret was that the… — Sōseki Natsume Copy Share Image
You know there's always that kid in your class — and every class has one — the kid who draws all the… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
We're in an era where you learn about techniques, but you don't experience anything crucial in yourself about a piece of work… — Rob Nilsson Copy Share Image
My work is so unorthodox that from one panel to the next, the drawings are completely different... totally opposed to the way… — Sergio Aragones Copy Share Image
It is now the fall of my second year in Paris. I was sent here for a reason I have not yet… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Whereas certain people start with a recollection or an experience and paint that experience, to some of us the act of doing… — William Baziotes Copy Share Image
“She only modelled for him once,' Max said stubbornly, leaning the canvases back against the wall and replacing the sheet. 'Once, twice… — Robert Goddard Copy Share Image
I never view aesthetic ideas as having an existence purely of their own but as a function they have in connection with… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
“Whereas art critics are ready to accept-indeed are looking for-the new fabrication of a consistent visual language, architectural critics, like the general… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
It is ironic but true: the one reality science cannot reduce is the only reality we will ever know. This is why… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Anybody who perceives colors can become a painter. It's simply a question of whether or not one has felt anything and whether… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
The least-challenging way to make art for me would be to reinforce decorative formalism or find a way to extend entertainment values.… — Josephine Meckseper Copy Share Image
Painting is the only universal language. All nature is creation's picture book. Painting alone can describe every thing which can be seen,… — William Morris Hunt Copy Share Image
