“The Difference Between a good artist And a great one Is: The novice Will often lay down his tool Or brush Then… — Hafiz Copy Share Image
The emphasis on original, individual work in the past years has done a great deal to produce a crop of eccentric fakes… — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
“He was ... at peace with the world, for it is not in the praise of others that the true artist revels,… — Tom Holt Copy Share Image
I think that painting relates very neatly to inner travel and the exploration of inner worlds. With painting, I always get the… — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
For me there is no gap between my painting and my so-called 'decorative' work. I never considered the 'minor arts' to be… — Sonia Delaunay Copy Share Image
Again there are so many records which contain fond memories and music and songs of which I have to say I am… — Greg Lake Copy Share Image
If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I'm sure there was some amazing art at the Frieze Art Fair, but I wasn't able to find it. However, found some… — Caterina Fake Copy Share Image
All the mistakes committed by artists are due to their having separated themselves from truth, believing that their imagination is stronger. There… — Joaquin Sorolla Copy Share Image
To put it as simply as possible - and this is a simple answer, not a total answer - I know when… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
If our ballets be feeble, monotonous and dull, if they be devoid of ideas, meaning, expression and character, it is less the… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
Rap isn't poetry, not least because it involves music and often other elements that aren't words. But the way poets in English… — Andrew Hoberek Copy Share Image
Whenever I go to L.A., the make-up artist or hairdresser will end up having a conversation about how fat they think they… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
So the problem for the poetic artist or the photographer is the common problem of continuous attentiveness, continuous attempts to notice what… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
The true function of art is to criticize, embellish and edit nature… the artist is a sort of impassioned proof-reader, blue penciling… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My graffiti really comes more from a May '68, sort of Situationist vibe than the hip-hop world. I think a real graffiti… — Mike Mills Copy Share Image
Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
Have pity on those who are fearful of taking up a pen, or a paintbrush, or an instrument, or a tool because… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“There's a table with some catalogues and a guest book in the corner; there are artworks. Today, I need so badly to… — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
What I would like to write is a book about nothing, a book without exterior attachments, which would be held together by… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. It is a disease which arises from men no having sufficient power of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I'm still an artist who's searching, trying to evolve, an artist who - nine times out of ten - is dissatisfied with… — Audra McDonald Copy Share Image
We talk about the vulnerability involved in sharing our work publicly. I don't think we talk enough about the real vulnerability involved… — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
The sculptor, the painter the musician the dancer, or any artist, if he can first obtain celebrate in Paris, acquires very easily… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I see myself as a martial artist. I'm a creative fighter. It's not about hitting the guy and hurting him, it's about… — Chris Eubank Sr Copy Share Image
My problem with political art is not that it's bad art necessarily, but that it is terrible politics. We're talking about a… — Jonathan Santlofer Copy Share Image
Having people around you that are honest with you, and having a team around you that can actually track and communicate where… — Muneshine Copy Share Image
In this same tradition, beauty is inextricably bound up with the principles of order and harmony believed to underlie the cosmos. Artists… — John Walford Copy Share Image
All artists have runners, people that tell them what to do, business managers, lawyers, these - if they get the right ones,… — Berry Gordy Copy Share Image
What's that Regina Spektor song? Museums are like mausoleums. Having your work in a museum is something we as artists aspire to,… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
I used to think that great art happened without argument, and maybe that’s not the case. Maybe the things that are most… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
From all that I have seen, I am more than ever convinced that art must communicate, and it must represent, describe and… — Raphael Soyer Copy Share Image
Pythagoras said that the most divine art was that of healing. And if the healing art is most divine, it must occupy… — Apollonius of Tyana Copy Share Image
So how does Liz Phair feel about Lana Del Rey? Well, as a recording artist, I've been hated, I've been ridiculed, and… — Liz Phair Copy Share Image
I started digging into parts of myself that I probably ignore and don't really get to express because Common is an artist… — Common Copy Share Image
I didn't want to just work within Hollywood when I started a production company. I wanted to be able to collaborate with… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
“All art begins with a groping after form, then attains form, and then emancipates itself from too great insistence upon rigidity of… — Gustav Kobbé Copy Share Image
And I like the idea of change. Because I don't see why we should hang a painting on the wall and then… — Minoru Yamasaki Copy Share Image
When things get tough, this is what you should do: Make good art. I'm serious. Husband runs off with a politician --… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
