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I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another: you jig,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
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I think the music business is changing. Artists that don't want to tour and just want to collect royalty checks and stay… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
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I have told myself a hundred times that painting - that is, the material thing called a painting - is no more… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
When you write something new about science, other scientists may not like it but they pay attention because it is subject to… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
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Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract for he must create his own work… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
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I was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Coming out as a Barbra Streisand fan was way more embarrassing than coming out as a lesbian. To be an artist of… — Deborah Kass Copy Share Image
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Take a relief. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no… — Urs Fischer Copy Share Image
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If I didn't have a conviction that a serious painter can portray Nature more profoundly than the best colour photography, I'd probably… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
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Let us not forget that group of self-taught, outsider artists who never stepped foot in any classroom and cared less about even… — Scott Kahn Copy Share Image
If I have an opportunity to do something safe or something challenging, I'll often choose the latter. Sometimes, the objective is to… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
“Most striking about the traditional societies of the Congo was their remarkable artwork: baskets, mats, pottery, copper and ironwork, and, above all,… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
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All you can do as an artist is do what you think is an extension of you. You put down on paper… — Justin Timberlake Copy Share Image
Being Southern and being the guy I've been all my life, I've lived more on the lighter side of life. I have… — Josh Holloway Copy Share Image
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Norman Rockwell, the Brueghel of the 20th century bourgeoisie, the Holbein of Jell-O ads and magazine covers; by common assent, the most… — Jerry Adler Copy Share Image
The only damn thing I ever learned in all my years in art school was a piece is never done, it is… — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
I just started writing and writing for people. And then, like I guess after (a) year of getting some placements, I kinda… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
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