“As an artist, one always seeks the acceptance and adoration of the audience, and therefore I was afraid this could affect my… — Ricky Martin Copy Share Image
The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form [and] knowledge, keeps him fresh and from working… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
I believe I am looking for rightness. My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I might ask about the first time a person heard a song that they really responded to, like when I asked Mos… — Anthony DeCurtis Copy Share Image
We tend to think and feel in terms of the art we like; and if the art we like is bad then… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I left film because I felt that photography was my art. It was something I could do on my own, whereas film… — Timothy Greenfield-Sanders Copy Share Image
I think libraries give the feeling that people are there to work. It's a little bit like an artist's colony in the… — Stephen McCauley Copy Share Image
We must be clear about what we want to paint. This adds a further principle to our previous list of principles. We… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Against all expectations, the symptoms of Van Gogh’s mental illness are conspicuous by their almost complete absence from his letters. Much as… — Vincent van Gogh Copy Share Image
If politicians can't do it, I want to do it. We have to do it. Artists, put it in paintings. Poets, put… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
The secret for an artist is to make that a subject and not bang your head against the wall and give up.… — Clive James Copy Share Image
Some artists just go and play, and I have no objections to that - but I don't like to do that. People… — Hiromi Copy Share Image
great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions. Tolstoi's scripts are almost indecipherable. Emily Dickinson provided… — Agnes de Mille Copy Share Image
Record companies don't think creatively about what something could possibly be because they are not filled with creative people. Nobody's looking at… — Linda Perry Copy Share Image
Not since the Lord himself showed his stuff to Ezekiel in the valley of dry bones had anyone shown such grace and… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I've often been given the career advice to not wear too many hats, which, of course, has just encouraged me to wear… — Matthew Brannon Copy Share Image
Jay-Z ain't a manager; he owns a management company. He been through this; he been through the game for a long time,… — Meek Mill Copy Share Image
At the same time that I'm finding the color world I want, I'm also trying to make the imagery, you know, by… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
The past slips from our grasp. It leaves us only scattered things. The bond that united them eludes us. Our imagination usually… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
A lot of people think that there has to be extreme continuity in an album, but if you look at my background,… — Donny Osmond Copy Share Image
Art is not ideology. It is completely impossible to explain art on the basis of the homological relation that it is supposed… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
The representative element in a work of art may or may not be harmful, but it is always irrelevant. For to appreciate… — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
I think that all art is socially conscious. There is no alternative. Whatever we produce contains a political and social statement. There's… — Alfredo Jaar Copy Share Image
Art is a means of expression that must be understood by everybody, everywhere. It grows out of the earth, the textures of… — Rufino Tamayo Copy Share Image
People expect artists to be too normal, I think. I've been around enough of them now to see that they're very extraordinary… — Thelma Schoonmaker Copy Share Image
When the painting is hanging on your wall for a long time, you don't notice it. You get tired of it, even… — Julio Iglesias Copy Share Image
The art, the new, the ability to connect the dots and to make an impact - sooner or later, that can only… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
A peculiar fact about termite-tapeworm-fungus-moss art is that it goes always forward, eating its own boundaries, and, likely as not, leaves nothing… — Manny Farber Copy Share Image
The process of creating art allows me to learn about the subject I'm illustrating. So, if I want to learn more about… — Jerry Pinkney Copy Share Image
... They paid some madman who thought he was a decorator a lot of money to make the place look hip and… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
The bizarre but all too common transformation of the woman artist from a producer in her own right into a subject for… — Whitney Chadwick Copy Share Image
It's the honest point of view of an artist: You have to please.I'd like viewers to come away from my films unsure… — Jean-Pierre Melville Copy Share Image
Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond the two pretty colors… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying. Why is this… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
It's possible and available to any artist to be himself or herself on their own terms, to be accepted and embraced by… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
“Yet, in the middle of all this grief, I realize there’s a part of me clinical enough to want to document it.… — Kirsty Eagar Copy Share Image
“The painter paints, the musician makes music, the novelist writes novels. But I believe that we all have some influence, not because… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
I'm trying to inspire as many people as I can. I want the viewer to enjoy the art and I want the… — Nathan Sawaya Copy Share Image
When we digital artists talk about painting on the computer, that is exactly what we do. The paints we use are pixels,… — Donald Lambert Copy Share Image
It's not always about working with the hottest artist. I sometimes go for challenges although people look at me strangely like, 'Why… — Scott Storch Copy Share Image
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