If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Soul was the music made by and for black people. For most of the Sixties it was thoroughly divorced from white popular… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the… — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
Khairani Barokka is a writer, spoken-word poet, visual artist and performer whose work has a strong vein of activism, particularly around disability,… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
I love art, but I don't think I'm especially good at it. Fashion I think I could imagine, but I'm not really… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
Artists freeze themselves into these weird postures that are meant to be impressive and involving, then they fling them out into the… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Perhaps there is a minimum distance that should separate one exhibit from another... Indeed those specialized in psychophysics have actually come up… — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
“But I think it will bring you something besides this, something that is the knowledge of real strength in art: not that… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If you're an artist, create music and put it out on the Internet. If you do this consistently, your fan base will… — Russ Copy Share Image
I have a friend who's an artist, and he sometimes takes a view which I don't agree with. He'll hold up a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't understand the fashion industry and the appeal of it. I understand that there are some people who think it's important… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
I like coming up with new characters. Whether it's revamping an old character no one likes or just coming up with brand-new… — Joe Madureira Copy Share Image
Since the beginning of the 20th century, the public's relationship to art has been weakened by a profound institutional reluctance to address… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
In a way, painting is like wine: it is as old, as simple, as primitive and as varied. Like wine, it is… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
It's really hard to write personal songs. I'm not good at writing ditties because as far as writing hit songs that you… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
History is a great painter, with the world for canvas, and life for a figure. It exhibits man in his pride, and… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I believe that every human being should try to do good for someone else. There are so many different ways to do… — Romero Britto Copy Share Image
At a certain point, I realized that I could draw anything, and there was nothing I should avoid - I could make… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
I almost never do drawings, because I have found over the years that doing something in one medium and translating into another… — Nelson Shanks Copy Share Image
Two of my favorite artists are Josh Smith and Joe Bradley. But I argued against them for years, until I grew to… — Leo Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
“The re-evaluation and rediscovery of minority art (including the cultural minority of women) is often conceived as a matter of remedying injustice… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
Artistic judgments are silly if expressed as dogmas, at least until we get an "artometer" which can measure objectively how many micro-michelangelos… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“It's like art, you know? Picasso had to prove to the world he can paint the right way, before he goes putting… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
For the first time in his life, he stopped worrying about results, and as a consequence the terms “success” and “failure” had… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
You know, you should start to be in plays and things like that. Write some scripts. If you're an artist and you… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
Growing up, I didn't have a family of creatives. I didn't have knowledge that becoming an artist was an option. I'm not… — Kesh Copy Share Image
Photography is, and has been since its conception, a fabulously broad church. Contemporary practice demonstrates that the medium can be a prompt,… — Charlotte Cotton Copy Share Image
Beauty is for the artist something outside all orders of rank, because in beauty opposites are tamed; the highest sign of power,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by… — Stephen Bayley Copy Share Image
For me, it's really important that the experience of art is always something that is able to provoke strong emotion, an emotion… — Camille Henrot Copy Share Image
We're going to do three things: teach-ins across the country so people can learn about each other's issues and causes; parties with… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
As an artist you can use your own discomfort and neuroses and difficulties and at least transform them into something else. Without… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
There used to be rather serious firewalls between the artist and the buying public - the gallery, the publisher. And technology demolishes… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an honest writer and show my ugliness as much as I showed my hopes or goodness. And that… — Jewel Copy Share Image
Marketing of art is, and to my mind has always been, trendy. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean there is any real long-term value.… — Oliver $ Copy Share Image
You learn about yourself when you're collecting art. You learn what you're capable of. After all, we're not speaking about pennies-we're speaking… — Laurence Graff Copy Share Image
I think you have to control the materials to an extent, but it's important to let the materials have a kind of… — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
Producing a film is more unfamiliar territory. Although producing an album and overseeing artists is a task within itself. But film is… — T.I Copy Share Image
In sharp contrasts to traditional art, modern art does not hide the fact that it is something made and produced: on the… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
