Truth and reality in art begin at the point where the artist ceases to understand what he is doing and capable of… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
I know that to paint the sea really well, you need to look at it every hour of every day in the… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Like most people, I've always felt using words like 'best' when applied to art is a fun way for critics to stay… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
In my own art, I try to use my personal voice and effort to enable some Chinese people to see the possibilities… — Cai Guo-Qiang Copy Share Image
Women can also be creative in total isolation. I know excellent women artists who do original work without any response to speak… — Elaine de Kooning Copy Share Image
I'm personally looking for artists that are along the lines of today's pop stars. Whether it be a Rihanna or a Justin… — L.A. Reid Copy Share Image
When you are on a major record label, you're just forced to think big. You are forced to think about things like… — Graham Colton Copy Share Image
Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming… — Aaron Scharf Copy Share Image
One can do good things without being very much of a harmonist or a colourist. It is sufficient to have a sense… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
As a young person, you have no fixed address, no studio, no money for materials, so I made things sort of on… — David Salle Copy Share Image
People ask me, 'What happened in your life that might have pushed you as an artist to get to where you are… — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
When I was a kid I was not a good student. I went to the University of Colarado, my grades were poor.… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
I am not a therapist. I am not a spiritual leader. These elements are in the art: it is therapeutic, spiritual, social… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
You are always looking for already-felt emotions, just as you like to get an old pair of trousers back from the cleaners,… — Francis Picabia Copy Share Image
What are works of art for? to educate, to be standards. To produce is of little use unless what we produce is… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Stand up for yourself and fight for your right to be the artist that you want to be. There's plenty of pressure… — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
You can't have artistic freedom if you have to think about seven different aspects of your own job all the time. It… — Lisa Stansfield Copy Share Image
I don't want to hear at all what the artist thinks about his art. And I'm not writing for the artist. I'm… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Ultimately it's the public nature of those projects that I most enjoy. Museums are more than just places to view art, they're… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
“Thought and plot are not so important as some would make them out to be. The object of any work of art… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
If a hip-hop artist can get on stage and entertain an arena full of 30,000 people and keep their attention for 45… — Redman Copy Share Image
The United States military is now using the music of Metallica and other heavy metal bands to break the will of Saddam… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Not to waste time on nonsense. Not to be taken in by conjurors and hoodoo artists with their talk about incantations and… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I'm usually the last to see my influence in other people's work. People give me stuff and say "Oh look, this guy's… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
“Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fills concert halls and cinemas… — Banksy Copy Share Image
“Sometimes to see your work’s rightful place you have to walk to the edge of the precipice and search the deep chasms.… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
We had Chinese artists that would put in elements for the Chinese audience like the calligraphy actually means something so the audience… — Jennifer Yuh Nelson Copy Share Image
Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
No art can be grafted with success on another art. For though they all profess the same origin, and to proceed from… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
If you don't have a dream as an artist, you shouldn't be an artist, because you should be working towards something and… — Megan Griffiths Copy Share Image
Since childhood, it was my dream to go where all the poets and artists had been. Rimbaud, Artaud, Brancusi, Camus, Picasso, Bresson,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I'm a painter. I'm still a painter and I will die a painter. Everything that I have developed has to do with… — Carolee Schneemann Copy Share Image
“His art springs out of bubbling underground necessity, as if he's somehow dipping himself into the river that gave him life; he's… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I feel very strongly about the legacy of Ghost and I'm the next part of that chapter and hopefully a very long… — Rupert Sanders Copy Share Image
Everybody loves a sad ballad because it's cathartic. For artists, in a lot of ways, that's sort of our therapy sessions is… — Tim McGraw Copy Share Image
The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art… — Peter Maxwell Davies Copy Share Image
A photographer is a photographer and an artist is an artist. I don't believe in labels or titles. Why should a painter… — Peter Lindbergh Copy Share Image
One of the things that sells music is when the artist is looked at as someone who's come up from the streets.… — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
This is Darrow, Inadequately scrawled, with his young, old heart, And his drawl, and his infinite paradox And his sadness, and kindness,… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
