I think that the most important requirement is to capture the essence of a piece of art. You look at it, essentially… — Wolfgang Beltracchi Copy Share Image
[the impression of the first time I heard Webern's music in a concert performance] was the same as I was to experience… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
“As Giotto’s fame grew, the pope sent a representative to Tuscany to learn more about the artist and his work. When asked… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the work of art is to continue pursuing the vision of both being in and of the world but nevertheless in… — Brian Ferneyhough Copy Share Image
Well, you could almost say, I suppose, that the scientist seeks what is similar between any two days, or bluebirds, or glaciers.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“The art of living is neither careless drifting on the one hand or fearful clinging to the past on the other. It… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
The paradox in the evolution of French painting from Courbet to Cezanne is how it was brought to the verge of abstraction… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
There's lots of R&B blogs that I like going on and it basically just names new music that isn't out and won't… — Cher Lloyd Copy Share Image
Ideally there is a type of continuum which flows from life through the artist's sensibility and his materials... the concreteness of the… — Douglas Portway Copy Share Image
...if you think of modern art like sex in all its forms - heterosexual, bisexual, homosexual, multipartnered, bestial, whatever, with absolutely no… — Eve Arnold Copy Share Image
Jay Z in many ways is a rock artist. In the sense that they've used hard rock, punk rock, psychedelic rock aesthetics… — Ian Astbury Copy Share Image
“...I thought, with a certain amount of sorrow, how much enormous talent there must be in the world for nature simply to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musican, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“You will hear people say that poverty is the best spur to the artist. They have never felt the iron of it… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Standing in the nordic nook of the kitchen, I can gaze down at the flimsy-limbed joggers heading south towards the Park. It's… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
We must be clear about what we want to paint. This adds a further principle to our previous list of principles. We… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Against all expectations, the symptoms of Van Gogh’s mental illness are conspicuous by their almost complete absence from his letters. Much as… — Vincent van Gogh Copy Share Image
I might ask about the first time a person heard a song that they really responded to, like when I asked Mos… — Anthony DeCurtis Copy Share Image
“As an artist, one always seeks the acceptance and adoration of the audience, and therefore I was afraid this could affect my… — Ricky Martin Copy Share Image
The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form [and] knowledge, keeps him fresh and from working… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
I believe I am looking for rightness. My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
We tend to think and feel in terms of the art we like; and if the art we like is bad then… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I left film because I felt that photography was my art. It was something I could do on my own, whereas film… — Timothy Greenfield-Sanders Copy Share Image
I think libraries give the feeling that people are there to work. It's a little bit like an artist's colony in the… — Stephen McCauley Copy Share Image
At the same time that I'm finding the color world I want, I'm also trying to make the imagery, you know, by… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
I've often been given the career advice to not wear too many hats, which, of course, has just encouraged me to wear… — Matthew Brannon Copy Share Image
Jay-Z ain't a manager; he owns a management company. He been through this; he been through the game for a long time,… — Meek Mill Copy Share Image
A lot of people think that there has to be extreme continuity in an album, but if you look at my background,… — Donny Osmond Copy Share Image
The past slips from our grasp. It leaves us only scattered things. The bond that united them eludes us. Our imagination usually… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
Art is not ideology. It is completely impossible to explain art on the basis of the homological relation that it is supposed… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
Some artists just go and play, and I have no objections to that - but I don't like to do that. People… — Hiromi Copy Share Image
The secret for an artist is to make that a subject and not bang your head against the wall and give up.… — Clive James Copy Share Image
If politicians can't do it, I want to do it. We have to do it. Artists, put it in paintings. Poets, put… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Record companies don't think creatively about what something could possibly be because they are not filled with creative people. Nobody's looking at… — Linda Perry Copy Share Image
great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions. Tolstoi's scripts are almost indecipherable. Emily Dickinson provided… — Agnes de Mille Copy Share Image
Not since the Lord himself showed his stuff to Ezekiel in the valley of dry bones had anyone shown such grace and… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
It's the honest point of view of an artist: You have to please.I'd like viewers to come away from my films unsure… — Jean-Pierre Melville Copy Share Image
Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond the two pretty colors… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying. Why is this… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
It's possible and available to any artist to be himself or herself on their own terms, to be accepted and embraced by… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
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