The paintings by dead men who were poor most of their lives are the most valuable pieces in my collection. And if… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
So ultimately, it's idealistic to think that artists are able to step away from the power of the media and the way… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
A really spiritual person will live life as an art, will create a deep harmony between the body and the consciousness. And… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The idea is to bring art to people who might never really interact with it. It's for all citizens, and it's about… — Susan Davis Copy Share Image
If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I equate inspiration with desire the desire that moves us to be artists in the first place. To attempt to make… — Nita Engle Copy Share Image
If the artist succeeds in producing the impression of a movement which takes several moments for accomplishment, his work is certainly much… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
My paintings are about light, about the way things look in their environment and especially about how things look painted. Form, colour… — Ralph Goings Copy Share Image
The message is that if you believe in what you create, it's enjoyable and people will follow. The talented mangaka should know… — Tite Kubo Copy Share Image
Everyone knows French artist Claude Monet's "Water Lilies," which he painted in his garden. You find the images everywhere from galleries to… — Ari Shapiro Copy Share Image
Starting with approaching the spot where the painting is to be done, meanwhile realising the emptiness of the mind, up to the… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
I had thrown my body in for art... I had thrown myself into this game for art. You know, I was not… — Eve Babitz Copy Share Image
The notion that the great artist requires a great patron has been around since the Pharaohs. That the born patron also needs… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
I don't write for a particular audience. I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
They were in the world and not of it--not because they were saints, but in a different way: because they were artists.… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint… — Francois Cavanna Copy Share Image
I want people to know what it is they're looking at. But at the same time, the closer they get to the… — Jenny Saville Copy Share Image
If you want to be successful in the art world you've got to look to the art world; you don't make it… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
Going to a museum is one of those inexplicably tiring things. You're not actually doing anything, more shifting your weight from room… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
“The development of an image of the glowing human being can be traced in European art. One index of it is the… — Richard Dyer Copy Share Image
This isn't about fans, greed or money. It's about being morally right or wrong. Nobody is governing the way music gets from… — Lars Ulrich Copy Share Image
There was a review by Fairfield Porter from the 1950s about Mark Rothko, one of the more hallowed names in American art.… — David Salle Copy Share Image
“I am not a finished poem, and I am not the song you’ve turned me into. I am a detached human being,… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
As refined fare serves a hungry man as well as and no better than coarser food, the more pretentious artist will not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people - more just, more moral, more… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Many poets are not poets for the same reason that many religious men are not saints: they never succeed in being themselves.… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Before you either turn away in disgust or wink knowingly at one another, you should know that the artist insists that this… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
“To draw something is to try to capture it FOREVER, if you really love something, you never try to keep it the… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
[In art] you are telling the reader or the listener or the viewer something he already knows but which he doesn't quite… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
I think the biggest thing that people fear when it comes to art becoming a business is those authentic, pure aspirations of… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
Critics are always complaining about the materialism of hip-hop and accusing the artists of living way above their means. But this ostentatious… — Simon de Pury Copy Share Image
We grow hostile to many an artist or writer, not because we finally come to see he has deceived us, but because… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Artists cannot help themselves; they are driven to create by their nature, but for that nature to truly thrive, we need to… — William Morris Copy Share Image
While artists fervently believe that the art marketplace was invented by the devil and remains in his henchman's hands, they have no… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
Bob Marley is one of the most recognized artists. He didn't care to be defined. People wondered, 'Is it reggae? Is it… — Melanie Fiona Copy Share Image
Sometimes I will draw people and they will move away too quickly for me to finish what I wanted, and it is… — Jason Polan Copy Share Image
The question is very understandable, but no one has found a satisfactory answer to it so far. Yes, why do they make… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
I'm 45 years old. I used to be a club girl, but that's not my world anymore. That doesn't mean I can't… — Shirley Manson Copy Share Image
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