Emulation and imitation can legitimately influence one's development, but ultimately the artist must find his own path - and be true to… — Ken Danby Copy Share Image
Being a part of exhibitions is not a burden; it's another way for an independent label such as mine to reach a… — Hussein Chalayan Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I think the line is where you're in the studio, you're creating. That belongs to you as an artist. Nothing should taint… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
I maintain that the expression of junk and objects has an intrinsic value, and I see no need to look for aesthetic… — Arman Copy Share Image
The minute we don't finance the arts, the accountants, attorneys and politicians keep taking the cream of money off the top and… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
In terms of my inspirations to become an artist, I think they come from early ideas and impressions about community, and the… — Laura Owens Copy Share Image
I was sitting here without a shirt on, absentmindedly scratching my back with a pen for about five minutes and I just… — Jade Puget Copy Share Image
As a non-western artist, you have to ask yourself a question fairly early in your life: do I want to become a… — Sarnath Banerjee Copy Share Image
It's a cruel, heartless world out there in commercial rock 'n' roll, and when you take as much time off as we… — Tina Weymouth Copy Share Image
Modern abstract art starts in Russia in about 1915 with Malevich, and then the Russian Revolution happens, and eventually all that experimental… — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
You know how you feel somebody looking at you, and you turn, and somebody actually is? It's the same at an art… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I'm not creating art that starts with politics or starts with ethics. I feel I am a conceptual artist because my art… — Vik Muniz Copy Share Image
It is possible, however, that the artist is both thin-skinned and prophetic and, like the canary lowered into the mine shaft to… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
I know now that everybody in the arts is forever a beginner. Experience counts for a great deal and very little. Every… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Everything... has to be resolved through rhythms. You're constantly massaging each form, trying to get it home, pushing further and further until… — Leland Bell Copy Share Image
We are chained hand and foot by protocol, enslaved to a static, empty world where men and women can’t read, where the… — Catherine Fisher Copy Share Image
You have to be bold because there will be folks who will say, "You can't" or "You shouldn't" or "Why?" There is… — Chris Gardner Copy Share Image
You never hear a country-western station saying 'We have old school artist Willie Nelson in the house.' They say 'We have the… — Big Daddy Kane Copy Share Image
There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its… — Brian Ferneyhough Copy Share Image
One of the reasons that I went to Mexico aside from the Maya and the pre-Columbian aspect of it was that I… — Michelle Stuart Copy Share Image
The sad thing is that somehow, it is a type of event that mirrors the artist. You take it into account, and… — Massimiliano Gioni Copy Share Image
“The source of our art then is not in the achievements of other artists in other days and lands, although it has… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
If I go into a museum, it doesn't matter how often a work of art has been written about or thought about,… — Ashley Bryan Copy Share Image
every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Working with composers often is a really frustrating experience because you speak a different language and, oftentimes, they take two or three… — Peter Berg Copy Share Image
“Instead of chasing the idea of truth, what we should be doing is embracing the medium of drawing and using it for… — Peter Stanyer Copy Share Image
Nature was one of the key forces that brought me back to God, for I wanted to know the Artist responsible for… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
We can paint unrealistic pictures of the juggler--displaying her now as a problem-free paragon of glamour and now as a modern hag.Or… — Faye J Crosby Copy Share Image
Thought is more important than art…To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
Even in modern art, artists have used methods based on calculation, inasmuch as these elements, alongside those of a more personal and… — Max Bill Copy Share Image
I want to promote the introduction of art history in primary schools and to convince the general public that, even in a… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Because it's difficult to have a career as an artist, and in every situation where it's difficult to have a career, it's… — Elizabeth Price Copy Share Image
We [me and my husband] both had our things. Seth was the artist, I was the singer. We were like "You do… — Rachael MacFarlane Copy Share Image
I felt saddened and confused to discover my favorite mural gone, but also hopeful that another one may be in the works.… — Emily Raboteau Copy Share Image
As an artist, I think you always have to take care of yourself as a person probably even more than the average… — Josh Young Copy Share Image
I've always been a fan of reading art catalogues from exhibitions, and plays, and I've worked with a surrealist German playwright, Heiner… — Jenny Hval Copy Share Image
Once I knew that I wanted to be an artist, I had made myself into one. I did not understand that wanting… — Judy Chicago Copy Share Image
![“One of the reasons that I went to Mexico aside from the Maya and the pre-Columbian aspect of it was that I wanted to work with [Diego] Rivera, which I did, on a mural that he was painting at the time. But at some point I realized that I wasn't going to be a political artist, it just wasn't in my…” quote by Michelle Stuart](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/029/michelle-stuart-27692_art_one-of-the-reasons-that-i-went-to-mexico_2791884.jpg)
![“We [me and my husband] both had our things. Seth was the artist, I was the singer. We were like "You do your thing, I'll do my thing and never the two shall meet." I think we had a healthy competition going through our childhood. But I sort of left the funny stuff to him, I said "You're the…” quote by Rachael MacFarlane](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/f77/rachael-macfarlane-40743_art_we-me-and-my-husband-both-had-our-things_2587513.jpg)
