I don't think I ever really decided I was an artist. I went to college to learn how to think and look… — Gavin Turk Copy Share Image
I go to the studio every day, but I don't paint every day. I love playing with my architectural models. I love… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
When I did finally get to the circus as an adult, I was very impressed by the trapeze artist. But, being 6… — John de Lancie Copy Share Image
Much modern art is, at first sight, unnerving... in the contemporary world, we have come to expect instant response and immediate understanding. — Nicholas Serota Copy Share Image
The form of a work of art, which gives speech to their thoughts and is, therefore, their mode of talking, is always… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Art is realistic when it strives to express an ethical ideal. Realism is striving for truth, and truth is always beautiful. Here… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
How art works is really interesting. It comes from our unconscious, a lot of it. And were communicating in ways were not… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
The lure in art collecting and its financial rewards, not counting for a moment its aesthetic, cultural and intellectual rewards, is like… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
If we went to a museum, I know everybody won't like the same painting. But as an artist, as long as there's… — Da'Vine Joy Randolph Copy Share Image
Art is a way of penetrating and going deep into our unconscious and creating amazing worlds - as the Greeks did, if… — Steven Berkoff Copy Share Image
There is more similarity in the marketing challenge of selling a precious painting by Degas and a frosted mug of root beer… — A. Alfred Taubman Copy Share Image
Art breaks open a dimension inaccessible to other experience, a dimension in which human beings, nature, and things no longer stand under… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Contemporarily, we struggle with people worried about representation sometimes. It's a burden, as artists, that we take on that limits the work.… — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
For years, I went around the world looking and then painting, but now I have to think first and then paint. It's… — Milford Zornes Copy Share Image
I've always felt the portrait is an occasion for marks to happen. I've never viewed the portrait as about the sitter. Even… — Toyin Odutola Copy Share Image
Cultures that may seem as durable as stone can break like glass, leaving all the things that held them together unattended. I… — Anthony Shadid Copy Share Image
I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers; they bloom and then… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I don't think that I'm over his influence but they probably don't look like Picassos; Picasso himself would probably have thrown up… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
To be able to make decisions and see them come to fruition and feel the excitement around them, what it generates within… — Karen Kain Copy Share Image
There is a sense of purity in theatre which always attracts me. Deep down, I feel I am more of an artist… — Randeep Hooda Copy Share Image
So I say, if you cannot learn to love real art; at least learn to hate sham art and reject it. It… — William Morris Copy Share Image
The work of one author or artist may stimulate another author or artist to push the edge, to take the risk, to… — Karen Hesse Copy Share Image
I don't think most of our films should be realistic, but you want that as an artistic possibility. Then, the artist can… — Edwin Catmull Copy Share Image
I don't keep up with the art world. It's out there and if I did that too much, I wouldn't get my… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
I wanted to paint in a folk-artist-y way. My heroes were Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, and Rembrandt. I think Picasso is about… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
“imagination, though? Michelangelo said he saw angels in the marble and carved until he set them free. Most of us regard creativity… — Sean Patrick Copy Share Image
To pronounce something clever and honest is not such a big deal, lots of them have been said and written. For a… — Alexander Ostrovsky Copy Share Image
Art is no longer snobbish or cowardly. It teaches peasants to use tractors, gives lyrics to young soldiers, designs textiles for factory… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
For the first time in six or seven thousand years, many people of goodwill find themselves confused about art. They want to… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
Through my friend Tony Shafrazi, who's an art dealer and an artist himself - he helped to show Basquiat and Keith Haring,… — Owen Wilson Copy Share Image
“It is autumn on tip-toe that silently walks the hills and treads the forested expanses, gracing in each step a billion leaves… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Art is beauty, and every exposition of art, whether it be music, painting, or the drama, should be subservient to that one… — Julia Marlowe Copy Share Image
Art is violent. To be decisive is violent. ... To place a chair at a partial angle on the stage destroys every… — Anne Bogart Copy Share Image
“The estimation of an artist's talent is often based on his ability to render both light and shadow. If you have any… — Tracy Guzeman Copy Share Image
In some respects I will never die. Because art is immortal. What we leave behind and what we create - the energy… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
An artist, if he is truly an artist, is only interested in one thing and that is to wake up the minds… — Marvin Gaye Copy Share Image
The French make two mistakes about me. They think I'm an intellectual because I wear these glasses and they think I'm an… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The thinker requires exactly the same light as the painter, clear, without direct sunshine, or blinding reflection, and, where possible, from above. — August Wilhelm von Schlegel Copy Share Image
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