I want that every piece of art be honest, never mind what it is about. — Ashraf Barhom Copy Share Image
It is essential for artistes to have that release of creativity, almost as necessary as eating food or drinking water. — Akshaye Khanna Copy Share Image
If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
I once had the nerve to ask Picasso the question, 'What is art?' He answered, 'Art is a lie which makes us… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
The horizon is more than a convention of landscape painting, less than truth. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“Drawing makes you look at the world more closely. It helps you see what you’re looking at more clearly. Did you know… — David Almond Copy Share Image
The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Mother-love is not inevitable. The good mother is a great artist ever creating beauty out of chaos — Alice Randall Copy Share Image
I underwent a whole process of slowly letting go of idiosyncrasies and habits and embellishments and everything extraneous to the essentials that… — Caio Fonseca Copy Share Image
I began to wonder - I knew I was an artist or wanted to be one - but I was wondering whether… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
“No authority is wholly natural or native; when we’re not borrowing from our neighbors, we’re borrowing from our ancestors. One reason art… — Rivka Galchen Copy Share Image
“But the thing is, in all my experience as an artist, I have found that there are people who want to destroy… — Jacqueline Winspear Copy Share Image
If you don't know the right people or have the right connections, you may never be discovered. With 'Opening Act,' we are… — Nigel Lythgoe Copy Share Image
I'm so devoted to my music and becoming the best artist I can be. I don't want to devote too much time… — Fabolous Copy Share Image
People have these weird ideas about artists being romantic, generous people, and sometimes I feel like an asshole, a selfish kid, a… — Nate Lowman Copy Share Image
When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Putting is not an art, it's a dreaded evil. No wise man ever said that. — Dan Jenkins Copy Share Image
He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
I don't think there should be a hierarchy of what is valid in the arts. — Seth Numrich Copy Share Image
