I never thought, "I'm going to be an artist". When I actually began to become successful in the art world I made… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
An exhibition is in many ways a series of conversations. Between the artist and viewer, curator and viewer, and between the works… — Thelma Golden Copy Share Image
“The burden shouldn't be on the artist to make things the public understands, nor should it be on the museum to show… — Marcia Tucker Copy Share Image
“What would Warhol be without his paranoia, Hunter S. Thompson without his Quaaludes, Johnny Cash without his philandering? We Somebodies are not… — J.T. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I listen a lot to the incredible young artists who are coming through, which is something that just wasn't possible during Apartheid.… — Letta Mbulu Copy Share Image
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. Although the spirit be not master of that which it creates… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
The art I like concentrates on the body. I don't have a feel for Poussin, but for Courbet, Velásquez - artists who… — Jenny Saville Copy Share Image
My mother really didn't come from artists. Her famous quote to me was, "The only artists I've ever heard of are dead."… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
Spotify has paid more than two billion dollars to labels, publishers and collecting societies for distribution to songwriters and recording artists. — Daniel Ek Copy Share Image
My goal is to make fine art, and fine art comes from the soul. If you have virtuosity and facility, you can… — Richard MacDonald Copy Share Image
I get mad if I'm not presented as an actual artist on tour. I don't want to be seen as just some… — Statik Selektah Copy Share Image
The beauty of ideas is that they are like waves in the ocean and they connect with things that came before them,… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I see hip-hop as going in a self-managing place. It's very culturally controlled and artist-controlled. It's not really based on a label… — Travis Scott Copy Share Image
That's like the worst - having the ability to do something and not doing it is, I think, the worst thing in… — John Dolmayan Copy Share Image
Calls for the simplification of abstract or allusive art have always come from governments suspicious of artists themselves. This is why totalitarian… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
If buying art is to matter to us deeply, then it has to engage with our emotions and bring something to what… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
No matter how consummate a work of art may seem, it is only an approximation of the original conception. It is the… — Edgard Varese Copy Share Image
I feel, as an artist, it's important for me to write, and that's a big part of what my journey is -… — Anne-Marie Copy Share Image
“Pop is about speaking everybody's language. The imagery and iconography we instantly recognize. When you can rely on things that the public… — Nuno Roque Copy Share Image
The score of Pelleas and Melisande by Debussy, heralds that which will lift man from the earthly to the celestial, from the… — Corinne Heline Copy Share Image
Sometimes I could quit paint and take to charring. It must be fine to clean perfectly, to shine and polish and know… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
Artists can have greater access to reality; they can see patterns and details and connections that other people, distracted by the blur… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
I consider myself a multi-platform artist - not just a street artist - but the audience I found through street art has… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
Usually, the extras have a different mentality. I had the mentality of an artist, because I was a 'ballet-rina.' But most extras… — Teri Garr Copy Share Image
Idol has pretty much taken me out of my recording and out of my choreography. I have managed to slip in some… — Paula Abdul Copy Share Image
When you've always worked hard in the theater, you find that when you stop playing at the end of a run, the… — Rex Harrison Copy Share Image
I considered that the painter's personality should be kept out of things, and therefore pictures should be anonymous. It was I who… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
Cities are gentrified by the following types of people in sequence: first the risk-oblivious (artists), then the risk-aware (developers), finally the risk… — Bill Kraus Copy Share Image
“You see I still have confidence in you sir, or should I say the artist who dwells within you, the artist who… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
I don't understand why a Mark Rothko painting - as much as I love Mark Rothko - has to cost $73 million.… — Philip Taaffe Copy Share Image
My advice to new artists is to not follow a trend, but to start one. By that, I mean to not be… — Peter Frampton Copy Share Image
I think of a piece, and then people who are competent fabricate it. But lately I've started finger painting, which probably should… — Jenny Holzer Copy Share Image
Artists are creating their own genre sound, and other artists are building upon that sound and already creating a huge subculture created… — Steve Aoki Copy Share Image
First of all, computer animation is certainly a tremendous and viable medium today. But the warmth and personality derived from 2-D animation,… — Richard Sherman Copy Share Image
“And in the midst of our dying, as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Art Exist for the human species I think that all of the people who love art, those who teach art, and all… — Shinichi Suzuki Copy Share Image
You know, artists are influenced by other artists. We're all deeply influenced by what's around us; we don't make anything cold. Sometimes… — Carrie Mae Weems Copy Share Image
Develop your talent, man, and leave the world something. Records are really gifts from people. To think that an artist would love… — Duane Allman Copy Share Image
I walked into Relativity Records as a musician who could not be taken advantage of. That's why I wound up owning all… — Joe Satriani Copy Share Image
When you are writing for an artist you are trying to get into that artist's point of view. What does that artist… — Frank Wildhorn Copy Share Image
