“Very often, the title given to an artwork is the key to unlocking its hidden meanings. For example, for centuries no one… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
“At issue for Peladan is the potency of the visual image: art's ability to construct images for viewing that can mobilize, concentrate… — Jennifer Birkett Copy Share Image
Being an artist is not exactly the most universally respected, or secure thing to do with your life. It can be frightening… — Joan Osborne Copy Share Image
Every time we buy a CD or download a song, the artist is paid for their work. You might not know that… — Dionne Warwick Copy Share Image
Behind all forms of beauty there is an infinite unity, and this unity, this intrinsic and eternal beauty, the artist is seeking… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
I've collaborated with artists that truly run the gamut: from members of the Wu Tang Clan and Capone, to Moby, Lady Gaga,… — Wendy Starland Copy Share Image
Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I get up in the morning, I go and I work with beautiful women and charming men and funny comedians and… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I feel like at the end of the day, as entertaining as movies are, when you're part of them in a way,… — Shailene Woodley Copy Share Image
“The ego must be developed, not for its own sake, but because it is needed by society. If you are only interested… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Well, painting is the one thing I do, that is just me. It's me and easels, and the pencils. And as long… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
We've reached a point where we are not a very empathetic people, and art without empathy is art without an audience. My… — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
These days there are painters that go inside a factory in order to be inspired by the noise of machines, so that… — Guity Novin Copy Share Image
My problem is that I don't paint ambitiously. It's all catch and release - just tiny fish that aren't really worth the… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
When a spectator approaches a painting with his own particular set of filters or theories, be they historical, political, intellectual or whatever… — Douglas Portway Copy Share Image
My idea about the role of artists is to get people to look at things in a way that's different than the… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
“Katherine stopped abruptly and looked at Langdon. “Robert, Melencolia I is here in Washington. It hangs in the National Gallery.” “Yes,” he… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
My own interest in art was because of my mother. My father didn't like contemporary art, so he didn't give her large… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
We live in an age where quantity is seen as preferable to quality, and many people tend to work in a horizontal… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
In the record business, if you sign an artist that don't really know too much about the business, you can really get… — YG Copy Share Image
“The critic can affect my aesthetic theories only by affecting my aesthetic experience. All systems of aesthetics must be based on personal… — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
Alexander Trocchi was an existentialist. He was looking at an alienated artist in the post-war period. It's modern because it applies now… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
What an artist does, is fail. Any reading of the literature, (I mean the literature of artistic creation), however summary, will persuade… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
What then is to be the lot of Rossetti's fame and influence? 'An amateur who failed in two arts', it is true;… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
Senator Helms might very well do that. I would point out to him that we in the art world are not necessarily… — Jane Alexander Copy Share Image
All one wants to do is make a small, finished, polished, burnished, beautiful object . . . I mean, that's all one… — John Banville Copy Share Image
“Reality is neither the subject nor the object of true art which creates its own special reality having nothing to do with… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I love painting still lifes because there's a feeling of musical, flowing experience. The drawing doesn't matter as much - what you're… — Jacob Collins Copy Share Image
Emerald green eyes studied us from a face that could have been sculpted by one of the classical artists I so admired.… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
My job as an artist, as I see it, is to understand and in some cases to take on various ways of… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
Well, I'm a painter, I was trained as a painter…I seem to have spent a little less time painting than I might've… — Syd Barrett Copy Share Image
I don't mean to give performance art a bad name or anything; I think there are people that are legit. I think… — Mary Lynn Rajskub Copy Share Image
My dad is a lawyer and my mom is an artist. So growing up was exactly what it sounds like - strict… — Ty Segall Copy Share Image
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Our first job as artists, then, is to venture out, away from what we think we know in search of the new… — Jeff Goins Copy Share Image
To write with taste, in the highest sense, is to write [...] so that no one commits suicide, no one despairs; to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I intensely dislike the word 'critic,' because it puts you in an antagonistic position to artists. I've learned everything that I know… — Lucy R. Lippard Copy Share Image
When people like your music because it has vulnerable honesty, and you're able to comfortably admit to flaws and imperfections, then that's… — Tove Lo Copy Share Image
I think every once in a while I feel the need to break my medium... if I have been doing a very… — Lee Krasner Copy Share Image
I think it's bad for human beings to be artists. It's awful. You want to do something but you're constantly trying to… — Urs Fischer Copy Share Image
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