You make art, you make it from what you know, and that's the best way to make art. You get lost in… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
To all viewers but yourself, what matters is the product: the finished artwork. To you, and you alone, what matters is the… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
“No respect for beauty – that was characteristic of today’s society. The works of the great masters were at most employed as… — John Ajvide Lindqvist Copy Share Image
The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
What I am trying to say is that it is not without any value. The value of copies is that they can… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
Any work of art represents a series of conscious choices on the part of the artist - what color to paint, what… — Leonard Pitts Copy Share Image
For me getting paid for art is a class issue. I don't have the luxury not to care. It's great if your… — Nicole Georges Copy Share Image
It's interesting how people who were once fairly radical can become, later in life, kind of conservative and not just in terms… — Richard Prince Copy Share Image
I am never in a hurry to reach details. First and above all I am interested in the large masses and the… — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Copy Share Image
Even the mistakes, even everything bad that happened, I wouldn’t change because then I wouldn’t be the person that I am today.… — Jay Park Copy Share Image
In art and life we're always reading bodies and behaviors (and skies and skylines or whatever), constructing brief and shifting coherences, and… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
Acting is just another way to express myself as an artist. I realized if you're an artist, you're an artist and you… — Common Copy Share Image
Maybe if you're Kanye West, or Lil' Wayne or Issa Rae, having songs, scripts and art leaked won't really put you out,… — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
Considering that knowledge of the chemical as well as the optical principles of photography was fairly widespread following Schulze's experiment (in 1725)...… — Helmut Gernsheim Copy Share Image
When I was painting in art school - and I think many painters in the 1980s worked similarly - a finished painting… — Chris Ofili Copy Share Image
I was always the kid who could draw. I had this talent, and it was the one thing that gave me some… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly...and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
. . . I have written a couple of screenplays for studios, and each time has been less gratifying than the last.… — Craig Lucas Copy Share Image
Art alone makes life possible - this is how radically I should like to formulate it. I would say that without art… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
I'm really the only artist in my family. I have one cousin who is a painter. I think I developed all of… — Sam Richardson Copy Share Image
My makeup artist likes to define my brows with Maybelline Brow Drama. We brush up on the part closest to my nose… — Gigi Hadid Copy Share Image
“When the travesties scattered throughout our modern art museums are set alongside the glories of ancient Greece, the Christian heart should swell… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
My idea of art is, you write something that makes people feel so strongly that they get some conviction about who they… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
I would say "These Days." It was the title song to an album I put out, and it's really this song that… — Mike Stud Copy Share Image
With the Internet today, it is possible to do some mixed media things where you can write about an artist and link… — Robert Hilburn Copy Share Image
Sometimes I draw with my left hand and I am pretty terrible. The drawings end up just looking like shakier/inconsistent (worse) versions… — Jason Polan Copy Share Image
I find that acrylics dry very fast - which is supposed to be its charm; however, I find that because of that… — Boris Vallejo Copy Share Image
Tolstoy is one of the greatest artists in history, but he finally became infused with the idea of the uselessness of art.… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, it was thought I would do something in the visual arts because I was always drawing, but… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
My work is always a ready-made... cultural, political, or social, and also it could be art - to make people re-look at… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
A school of art or of anything else is to be looked on as a single individual, who keeps talking to himself… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
An artist who is inspired is being obvious. He’s not making any decisions, he’s not weighing one idea against another. He’s accepting… — Keith Johnstone Copy Share Image
Fine-art photography is a very small world associated with galleries, museums, and university art programs. It's not like rock music; the products… — Mark Klett Copy Share Image
I'm not lacking for enthusiasm as you can see, given that I have something like 65 canvases covered with paint and I'll… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Growing up, Tina Turner was definitely one of my influences, and, um, I take things from different artists, and I put them… — La'Porsha Renae Copy Share Image
I feel so lucky. When an actor that has been struggling for so long makes the transition into being an actor full-time,… — Steve Zissis Copy Share Image
Artists, whether they're Tom Cruise or John Waters or Ron Howard or Oliver Stone, you can empower them to become a better… — Brian Grazer Copy Share Image
Let us... leave art to the artists, and let us try to use the medium of photography to create photographs that can… — Albert Renger-Patzsch Copy Share Image
“It is not I who mix the colors but your own vision,' he answered. 'I only place them next to one another… — Milorad Pavic Copy Share Image
As an actor, you just like to be able to play as much range. I just want to be invisible. I want… — Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Copy Share Image
