I foresee it and yet I hardly ever carry it out as I foresee it. It transforms itself by the actual paint.… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Trying to be an artist here in Nashville, a female artist specifically, you've got to figure out what you can do that's… — Lainey Wilson Copy Share Image
Simply according artistic works the same protection as nonartistic works may not be sufficient to protect creativity. After all, the very essence… — Irving Kaufman Copy Share Image
“The light of artistic creation is also blinding. The artist can’t see the suffering he causes to those around him. And the’ll… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
Nowhere in my collection do I, say, have a Auguste Renoir painting. Because everybody knows that this is a good painter without… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
[Being in the States] is almost like being on a holiday. It's kind of annoying because everyone's like "Oh, you're so obsessed… — Marina and the Diamonds Copy Share Image
It seems to be the easiest thing in the world these days to make scurrilous accusations against Muslims, and in my case… — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
What attracted me was less art itself than the artist’s life and all that it meant for me: the idea of creativity… — Pierre Bonnard Copy Share Image
“Farber says (in my recollection, anyway) the European (or classical) art, including film, is culturally assumed to be a monumental slab. It's… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“What was any art but a mold to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself- life hurrying… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Winning the Pritzker assures a flood of work in one's seventies and eighties, jobs necessarily carried out by assistants as the demands… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
“Finally, every society develops a system of aesthetic standards that get manifested in everything from decorative art, music, and dance to the… — David Livermore Copy Share Image
I'm certain that I will be able to do music that's more like me as I get to know more about myself.… — Taeyang Copy Share Image
There's generally no good reason why others should care about most of any one artist's work. The function of the overwhelming majority… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
Art matters. It is not simply a leisure activity for the privileged or a hobby for the eccentric. It is a practical… — Michael Gungor Copy Share Image
You know, with the funeral home, that is my artistic outlet where I can paint and play with science and bodies and… — Phaedra Parks Copy Share Image
If an artist knows you have respect for their talent - which I have to feel to my core, to sign them… — Clive Davis Copy Share Image
When members of a society wish to secure that society's rich heritage they cherish their arts and respect their artists. The esteem… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Matisse draws what I call the essence of the plants. He leaves a shape open. He'll do a leaf and not close… — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
It's important for all people, and not just people in bands, to speak out on social justice issues. That means journalists or… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
In his garden every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation. Here is one spot where each may experience… — Louise Wilder Copy Share Image
The Jackass movies are honestly some of the best movies I've ever seen. I laugh so hard at them. Those guys are… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
You can make your life into a grand ever-evolving work of art. The key is your thoughts, the wonderous invisible part of… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
The plastic artist may or may not be concerned with presenting a superficial appearance of reality, but he is always concerned with… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
I like the idea of having many different ways to express myself. There is a part of me as an artist and… — Donna Karan Copy Share Image
In an atmosphere of liberty, artists and patrons are free to think the unthinkable and create the audacious; they are free to… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
We don't all have to take the same coordinates to get to the same destination. Being a young African American female artist,… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
The art is more important than the artist. The work is more important than the person who does it. You must be… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
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I know artists that have tried for a long time in the Christian industry and then they were on a TV show… — Anthony Evans Copy Share Image
“The downfall of classical ideals made all men potential artists, and therefore bad artists. When art depended on solid construction and the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
When I'm teaching, I tell the story of this painting for two reasons. First of all, if you want a good solid… — Milford Zornes Copy Share Image
After being an Impressionist, Cubist, and an Abstract Expressionist, I was influenced by realistic artists, including Andrew Wyeth in the late '50s,… — Robert Bateman Copy Share Image
I think it would be nice to sell 15 million albums as a solo artist. I'd have to deal with all the… — Glenn Frey Copy Share Image
You know a trillion times more about art than me. But I’ve learned that it isn’t necessary to know all that much.… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Almost all of my early art dealt with the fallout from middle-class taboos, the messy, the ambivalent emotions couples felt, the inherent… — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image
I saw the industrial scene and I was affected by it. I tried to paint it all the time. I tried to… — L. S. Lowry Copy Share Image
The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And that's the… — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
Whatever the scientists may come up with, writers and artists will continue to portray altered mental states, simply because few aspects of… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Ideally, it would be cool to actually get to know artists enough to know what their feelings are, what they believe in,… — Poo Bear Copy Share Image
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