Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
It's not the act of arrogance to draw, it's humbling - you must use your God-given talent. And of all the people… — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
I think the true artist - musician, dancer, writer, actor - a true artist is able to sort of articulate pain and… — Black Thought Copy Share Image
One of the dangers of the American artist is that he finds himself almost exclusively thrown in with persons more or less… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
When you're using a long brush, you have your arm at full length. Basically, it exaggerates the movement of your body. But… — Brice Marden Copy Share Image
I made a conscious decision to take my life and career in a different direction. I started working on a play, and… — Scott Cohen Copy Share Image
Every time I was with Sammy [Davis Jr.] it was like going to the show business museum because the stories were so… — Billy Crystal Copy Share Image
I feel that puttin' in the hours and years in the studio, honing my craft, definitely played a part, me consciously networking… — Nipsey Hussle Copy Share Image
As an artist, even if you are putting out something really dark and disturbing, that's good because it's opening a discussion. Always… — Shaun Tan Copy Share Image
Part of me believes that the completed record is the final measure of a pop musician's accomplishment, just as the completed film… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
A lot of artists think that to be current, you have to follow what's out there and do something that's so unlike… — Gza Copy Share Image
“People are always relying on another, i always feel more comfortable alone. Art knows my pain, its not just a desire to… — Nikki Rowe Copy Share Image
“In the past an artist produced things that were necessary socially; they were instruments, albeit of a special kind, that helped the… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
It is possible to make a living thing, not a diagram of what I have been thinking: to posit with paint something… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
That's the age that people are exploited, exploitable, and they're easily manipulated. The problem with me is, you can't manipulate me anymore.… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false. ...… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
“Inherent in the artist's creative inspiration is the process of subliminally sniffing out environmental change," observed McLuhan in a 1969 interview. "It's… — John W. Whitehead Copy Share Image
Contradictions of perspective. Contrasts of light. Contrasts of form. Points of view impossible to achieve in drawing and painting. Foreshortenings with a… — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share Image
In big museums, the role of the curator has shrunk in recent years as different branches of curatorial work - such as… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
I didn't understand art, until one day Tom Brady took me to the museum, and we looked at the Picasso, and he… — Rob Gronkowski Copy Share Image
“I don’t want to see landscapes, i.e. scenic paintings of them, because I don’t want to see the original realities – as… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Like everybody, I wanted to meet Andy Warhol. I was impressed by his work and how daring he was. I think he… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
Can't a rapper insist, like other artists, on a fictional reality, in which he is somehow still on the corner, despite occupying… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The artist in his teens who is happy is a charlatan. Life comes bursting in all around lis too suddenly, too crudely,… — William McFee Copy Share Image
Art is the inheritance of every individual, it activates evolutionary growth, it is an intellectual virtue, and the fostering principle for all… — Alonzo King Copy Share Image
As artists, when you have people that care about what you do, I think you should care about those people who care… — Zachary Levi Copy Share Image
Elvis might have compromised his musical style a bit towards the end, but that doesn't mean that artists from the rock n'… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
The ordinary man puts up a struggle against all that is not himself, whereas it is against himself, in a limited but… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
“I wanted to tell you that art is the most harmless activity of mankind. But I suddenly recalled that art was often… — Magdalena Abakanowicz Copy Share Image
Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature. Why, then, may not landscape painting… — John Constable Copy Share Image
Sometimes for a lot of new artists, they don't have a vision, really, or know what they want to say; it's kind… — B.o.B Copy Share Image
I worked in an art gallery for a few years, doing administrative assistance stuff, and it exposed me to what the whole… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
The deaf community has shaped me as an artist and a person, and I am very grateful that I have been able… — Michael Arden Copy Share Image
Managers all over the world will go crazy when their artists are not touting the party line and making things pretty in… — Liz Garbus Copy Share Image
Stay in the present. And that's not a glib answer. The way to stay in the present is to have a love… — Dan Fante Copy Share Image
I didn't die young. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn't survive certain things... people can… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another, and is precious according to the greatness… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
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