“So long as we exalt artists as beautiful liars or as the world’s most profound truth-tellers, we remain locked in a moralistic… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
Painting expresses the depth and insight, the spiritual quality of the artist. If art is about life, then, while the depth to… — Millard Sheets Copy Share Image
I always have a plan, but it’s like the plan for a journey. Once you’re on the road, you change things. If… — Ernesto Neto Copy Share Image
It's intimidating any time to have a piece of art that someone else created, and that person says, 'Let's see what you… — Steve Kazee Copy Share Image
I feel that this is my artistic home, and I'm very happy to be a California artist together with many others who… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
I think what happened in the last 10 or 15 years in the art market is that all the players - and… — Diego Cortez Copy Share Image
I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I see myself as a very eclectic person and artist. I use all kinds of sources for the work as maybe some… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
One clear difference between art and commercial work is that commercial work is exploitive: the work may be high quality but the… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
There are few gardens that can be left alone. A few years of neglect and only the skeleton of a garden can… — Russell Page Copy Share Image
Some artists get so comfortable now after even one or two albums and think, 'I'm the biggest artist in the world,' but… — Sam Smith Copy Share Image
In the attacks on the old ways of doing things on word in particular came into currency. That word was "kitsch." Once… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“Now observe; if the artist does not understand the sacredness of the truth of Impression, and supposes that, once quitting hold of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Greeks and gods on the lawn, on the estate. Versace couches, sandals, candles, and matching plates. This picture's better than Basquiat's greatest… — Rick Ross Copy Share Image
Sometimes the painting starts to relate very directly to either sights seen or experiences felt, other times it just goes off on… — Susan Rothenberg Copy Share Image
Last year I was 16, it was my first round of releasing music. Since then I've been working more on having an… — Loren Gray Copy Share Image
The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
I think the Internet has hurt music more than it has helped it. The idea of giving music away for free just… — Steve Mahoney Copy Share Image
I've been writing for myself since I was a teenager - I got into top-lining for some other artists/producers, but the focus… — LIZ Copy Share Image
You can't expect to be on MTV and critique George Bush. You can't expect to be on BET or the cover of… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
Canvases between 8 centimetres and 1 metre are priced around 25,000 francs. In the past I used to sell them from between… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
I met India Arie, who is one of my favorite artists of all time. It was really sweet; I was broken up… — Ariana Grande Copy Share Image
I think a problem for most people in a fiduciary capacity is to eliminate self and greed and all those things so… — Shep Gordon Copy Share Image
Money follows art. Money wants what it can't buy. Class and talent. And remember while there's a talent for making money, it… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
I had studied Dadaism after the Second World War. What attracted me to this movement was the style its inventors used when… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
I'm not about either entertaining or instructing. The entertaining and instructing are secondary fallout from the fundamental thing, which is basically to… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
There is a problem in America. An Irish or Polish American can write a story and it's an American story. When a… — Gloria Naylor Copy Share Image
I've never been a big fan of subtle art. I like art that gets deep into my head and starts my brain… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
No artist's masterpiece can match a mother's creation of a successful child, one who has been freed to explore and to grow.… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
“You love a job, no matter how hard it is, it’s still easy. Not sure, never studied up on the guy, could… — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
The Metropolitan Museum of Art some time ago held a display of contemporary art at which $52,000 was awarded to American sculptors,… — James Keller Copy Share Image
To generate any appreciable degree of long-term affluence requires scrupulous honesty and the willingness to honor long-term agreements with employers, suppliers, partners,… — Robert Sheaffer Copy Share Image
For me it is the direct contact of artist to material which is original, and it is the earth and his contact… — Isamu Noguchi Copy Share Image
There comes a point when the paint doesn't feel like paint. I don't know why. Some mysterious thing happens. I think you… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
Our job is we work for the artist and we service the artists fans. And the better service and the better company… — Michael Rapino Copy Share Image
I've met so many amazing fans in the couple of weeks since the release of my second album, and everyone keeps telling… — Halsey Copy Share Image
So worried was I that people would see through the painting into my soul - and guess at secret Alison stuff -… — Allison Mackie Copy Share Image
Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate.… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
I think most artists find it difficult to part with their work but it's the parting that keeps us alive and keeps… — Kit Williams Copy Share Image
