It's how you tell the story that makes it new. That's what artists do. They let us look at the world from… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
“Our bloodlust to destroy as much of Nature as possible will be exposed for what it is: the jealous rage of a… — Petronius Jablonski Copy Share Image
“At the head of the table, where the roots of the fallen tree create a high, twisted chair, is a man. His… — Zoraida Córdova Copy Share Image
When you are chiselling a sculpture, it won't happen in one day, it happens over a period of time. It's the same… — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
Neither is there figurative and non-figurative art. All things appear to us in the shape of forms. Even in metaphysics ideas are… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The immortality of great art seems bound up with the inevitable loss of its original surface meaning and its rebirth in the… — Anton Ehrenzweig Copy Share Image
I like all the old-fashioned icons. My friends are artists, so they make me up to look like certain people. I am… — Pamela Anderson Copy Share Image
I admire most of all The Renaissance Man, and if it can be said without pretentiousness, I like to think of myself… — Lucius Beebe Copy Share Image
“Over time, the life of a productive artist becomes filled with useful conventions and practical methods, so that a string of finished… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
I'm not saying the 1970s was a golden age - I don't believe such a thing exists in art . . .… — Maurizio Cattelan Copy Share Image
I have a feeling that art is something you do for yourself, and that any time you turn your decisions over to… — William Stafford Copy Share Image
“Composer, sculptor, painter, poet, prophet, sage, these are the makers of the after-world, the architects of heaven. The world is beautiful because… — James Allen Copy Share Image
I work on stretched linen canvas, sized so that the surface already has a sense of tension when I begin. It is… — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
I've never had a problem with someone saying "yeah you're pretty, but you can't rap." In fact, I've heard things about other… — Jacki-O Copy Share Image
Art and science work in quite different ways: agreed. But, bad as it may sound, I have to admit that I cannot… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
The contradictory, consuming, contested relationship between detail and whole, event an eventuality, breathes fire and wisdom in every great work of art. — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I don't have specific music for when I'm writing. I'm usually listening to the same playlist or 'artist' before I arrive at… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
An artist's responsibility is a lot. I can't deny and escape from the responsibility. You have to be very guarded about your… — Chiranjeevi Copy Share Image
I always said God was against art and I still believe it. Anything obscene or trivial is blessed in this world and… — Edward Elgar Copy Share Image
If a work of art is placed before me, I believe I can enjoy it; but I do not overlook the fact,… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
The 'polymath' had already died out by the close of the eighteenth century, and in the following century intensive education replaced extensive,… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
That's the test of street art – to see if anybody stopped. People would cross out ones they didn't like and would… — Jenny Holzer Copy Share Image
It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
To be an artist is a blessing and a privilege. Artists must never betray their true hearts. Artists must look beneath the… — Marvin Gaye Copy Share Image
Anyone can take pictures. What's difficult is thinking about them, organizing them, and trying to use them in some way so that… — Lewis Baltz Copy Share Image
I have never had a shortage of ideas for shows. I always just do them and the gallerists don't - they stopped… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
Many are they who have a taste and love for drawing, but no talent; and this will be discernible in boys who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a matter of fact I don't know of one artist as long as I've been alive that they put in regular… — Slaine Copy Share Image
Laborers want their kids to be merchants or business people. Business people want their kids to be professionals. Professionals want their kids… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
“The aesthetic construct, and nothing else, has taught us to expose ourselves to a non-enslaving experience of rank differences. The work of… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“What should I do with your strong, manly, spirited sketches, full of variety and glow? How could I possibly join them on… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I can't wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it. At the moment if… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
“There are several ways to perform almost any act - an efficient, workable, artistic way and a careless, indifferent, sloppy way. Care… — Helen Nearing Copy Share Image
The paintings are more about physicality and gesture than meditation. I'd compare it to playing scales on the Cello - each sound… — Stephen Beal Copy Share Image
Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“As an artist, I love a good scene. I could stamp my feet, take your bouquet, and throw it in your face,… — Anna Adams Copy Share Image
No artist is well served in thinking what will happen to their works. The best one can hope is that they'll enter… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Paint what you really see, not what you think you ought to see; not the object isolated as in a test tube,… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
With the song 'This Christmas' I wanted to do something that was kind of different. I mean, Donny Hathaway is an amazing… — Chris Brown Copy Share Image
