“True healing is not physical — it is a spiritual awakening to our True Self. If art is used for that purpose… — Judith Cornell Copy Share Image
It's quite scary when academics start dictating to artists that they should be politically correct or follow certain rules of behavior -… — Pieter Hugo Copy Share Image
“All credit to the men who invented paint and canvas, but there’s more credit, eh? to the Raphaels and Holbeins who used… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
Brooke Berman's voice is utterly distinct, and her book, detailing her nomadic artist's journey toward both a successful playwriting career and a… — Maria Dahvana Headley Copy Share Image
Glass is the most magical of all materials. It transmits light in a special way...Im pleased that my art appeals to so… — Dale Chihuly Copy Share Image
I'm doing what all modern artists do now, which is nothing - just sit around and dream about things. I'll do what… — Billy Al Bengston Copy Share Image
“Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see… — Robert Heinlein Copy Share Image
Few of the early houses in New England were painted, or colored, as it was called, either without or within. Painters do… — Alice Morse Earle Copy Share Image
It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Painter" "I said you are only keeping me here in the hospital, lying to my parents and saying I am madder than… — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
To produce pure proletarian art the artist must be at one with the worker; this is impossible, not for political reasons, but… — William Empson Copy Share Image
There's no diploma in the world that declares you as an artist—it's not like becoming a doctor. You can declare yourself an… — Kara Walker Copy Share Image
I think people like to see the lives of artists that are legends. They always go through the dark periods and I… — Kristen Wiig Copy Share Image
There's something odd about telling people, artists, that they need to work for free to be pure while you're sitting there getting… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre; they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
I looked long and carefully at the picture of a stag painted by Landseer - the style was good, and the brush… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new… — Jack Kroll Copy Share Image
You were probably steered benignly away from things at school when you were a kid — things you liked — on the… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially a flat… — Maurice Denis Copy Share Image
My paintings are inspirational for they allow the observer to experience infinite viewpoints and perceptions. They are not abstract for they represent… — Freydoon Rassouli Copy Share Image
I never took drug to escape. I know some people take drugs to escape, but I took drugs because I was an… — Creed Bratton Copy Share Image
The only people playing the roles of classic rock stars are hip-hop artists, now. Kanye's stage persona, and the way he approaches… — Jack Antonoff Copy Share Image
It is true that there are not many smiling faces in modern art galleries. Happy art is much harder to make. Art… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
I think a lot of male artists should and probably are thinking in the same ways. The culture has moved in a… — Laura Owens Copy Share Image
“Ryu laughed. "You know what I mean. A absentminded as you are, it's a true wonder you can be so focused when… — H.J. Brues Copy Share Image
Generally I draw every day just to keep my hand in. I draw while I'm sitting on the Tube or in restaurants.… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with working with no artist from any type of demographic, but you've still got to maintain what you do… — Jadakiss Copy Share Image
Art cannot single-handedly create enthusiasm... it merely contributes to enthusiasm and guides us to be more conscious of feelings that we might… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The current memoir craze has fostered the belief that confession is therapeutic, that therapy is redemptive and that redemption equals art, and… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
The more I've gotten interested in writing about history and making sense of myself within the continuum of history, the more I've… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
To mention only contemporaries, Delacroix, Corot, Millet, Rousseau, Courbet are masters. And finally [I like] all those [painters] who loved and had… — Alfred Sisley Copy Share Image
Were we to aim in every case at the kind of supreme beauty exemplified by Sta Maria della Salute, we should end… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
We're in an era where the demand is for immediate hits that are destined to become obsolescent. Six months later, everyone forgets… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
Dawes kind of, on purpose, were like, "Let's realize that we're going to make less money, but let's try to get as… — Taylor Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Mystical groups such as the Theosophical Society and the Rosicrucians turned tarot into an American fad during the early 1900s. Many American… — Brendan I. Koerner Copy Share Image
I have to tell you, you can't have an ego when you're an actor. A lot of actors have them, but in… — Josh Brolin Copy Share Image
If the average jazz artist uses his head and at the outset of his career realizes he won't play as well at… — Oscar Peterson Copy Share Image
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