The artist and the mother are vehicles, not originators. They don't create the new life, they only bear it. This is why… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The deepest motivation for a lot of artists is obviously the one they all share: their great fear they are a fraud.… — Philip-Lorca diCorcia Copy Share Image
“Art and psychoanalisis give shape and meaning to life and that's why we adore them. However, life as it is lived has… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
I remember taking my makeup off at a Saint Laurent shoot, and I was dragging it across my eye. The makeup artist… — Kate Moss Copy Share Image
“MOMA's values were blown through the American education system, from high school upwards-and downwards, too, greatly raising the status of "creativity" and… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in all its… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
There's no real network, and every city in Mississippi is so spread out, so it isn't easy to drive around and pass… — Big K.R.I.T Copy Share Image
What the artist should be asking is, "Am I being honest? Am I being myself? Am I searching for the truth? Am… — Scott Kahn Copy Share Image
Life and mind are continuously in conflict with each other. I want happiness, security. I won't reach that by considerations of my… — Bram van Velde Copy Share Image
The integrity of being an artist for Frank Stella means going into the unknown.A great artist is somebody who's not scared to… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“Is it possible to make a living by simply watching light? Monet did. Vermeer did. I believe Vincent did too. They painted… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
It's impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won't. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a… — Banksy Copy Share Image
I was really into artwork in high school and my art teacher made it clear to me that it's not really a… — Jack Larson Copy Share Image
My bigger game plan was always to be the top artist in the heart of people and that probably made me artist… — Jubin Nautiyal Copy Share Image
For us, as artists, our goal isn't to forever try to play at the biggest venue ever. Our goal is to make… — Yukimi Nagano Copy Share Image
I think there can be a misrepresentation of who I am a lot of times because I might be more quiet than… — Kip Moore Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to understand art. Why don't we try to understand the song of a bird? Why do we love the night,… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Isn't art about breaking rules, about challenging existing systems, isn't it about discovering meaning in things or situations before others see anything… — Peter Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“I’d stumbled upon the inner sanctuary of a woman who loved the world. Loved the faces of people she saw. Loved the… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
The voice is certainly important and you can hear if it's beautiful or not, it's the gods who decide; it's more a… — Cecilia Bartoli Copy Share Image
It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill - it's a life which, to put it mildly,… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
The spirit of a painting is very hard to explain and articulate. I can't say it's not intentional because that is the… — Danny Fox Copy Share Image
I write some art criticism, and one thing that's clear to me is that politics is fashionable in the American art world… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
It was always that detail that drove me. Ever since I was a little kid, I used to get into the nitty… — Graeme Base Copy Share Image
Drawing will never go out of date because, you know, you've still got to have the imaginative thought. You've got to react… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
Right now, scientists are in exactly the same position as Renaissance painters, commissioned to make the portrait the patron wants done, And… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
I really tried to work out hard to emulate the look and feel of the character, and did my best to represent… — Daniel Cudmore Copy Share Image
The starting point of a picture for any painter is a matter of colors and form...I believe that the poetry of art… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Anyone living, especially your peers, is a threat. You're judging them, they're judging you. This sort of criticism is as close to… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
If my extensive collection of all 53 Now That’s What I Call Music compilations is any indication, I am both qualified and… — Chrissy Teigen Copy Share Image
I don't believe that art and politics or social issues must be separated. In writing about marriage, for example, money can be… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I was born in Indiana and raised in Oregon and there's a strong sense of individualism, particularly in Oregon. And my mom… — Lisa Kennedy Montgomery Copy Share Image
I did A-levels in Art, Graphic Design, Maths and General Studies, and always thought I would be an artist or graphic designer,… — Dan Hardy Copy Share Image
Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is short-sighted, not to say stupid, in the correct desire to be relevant as Christian artists in an unchristian age, to… — Calvin Seerveld Copy Share Image
People often think of artists and scientists as being diametrically opposed, but we both believe something is possible. We have a hypothesis… — Mira Calix Copy Share Image
I think it's important to keep things private, and there are certain boundaries I feel very particular about drawing. It may seem… — Jodhi May Copy Share Image
