An artist cannot get along without a public; and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
“Your impression of him as a respectable man brings to my mind the work of a painter whose pictures show attractively at… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
I think it's important to earn your fan base and not just try to immediately advance to the top. If you ride… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
I take the palette with me, but I have a lot of makeup. I was a makeup artist when I was younger,… — Gwen Stefani Copy Share Image
I think everything you do in life is art. What you do. The way you dress. The way you love someone, and… — Nate Copy Share Image
I had just been doing graffiti around New York and this real estate investor guy had walked through meat packing in New… — Alec Monopoly Copy Share Image
As an artist, you can't expect a producer to just bring you a record. If you walk in and say, 'I want… — John Gourley Copy Share Image
The artist cannot look to others to validate his efforts or his calling. If you don't believe me, ask Van Gogh, who… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The Kirtaniyas are in the new wave of younger Kirtan artists bringing the divine practice of Bhakti from the ancient to the… — Jai Uttal Copy Share Image
I think art cannot be planned. The audience is too smart to get the dishonesty or 'too much planning' thing. I am… — Priyanka Chopra Copy Share Image
Vincent van Gogh's mother painted all of his best things. The famous mailed decapitated ear was a figment of the public relations… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
That way of inspiration is always open, and open to everyone; it acts as go-between, interpreter, it explains symbols of the past… — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
You know, painting has given me a lot of freedom, because for some reason, I've been able to paint things, organize things… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
My philosophy through all my work, be it on canvas or on the street, is about pushing boundaries and not going with… — Ben Eine Copy Share Image
Getting to meet other artists that I admire is one of the best parts of my job. I don't know if I'd… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
Movement is the translation of life, and if art depicts life, movement should come into art, since we are only aware of… — Arshile Gorky Copy Share Image
“The real importance of automatism lay in the fact that it led to a different relation between the artist and the creative… — Michael Richardson Copy Share Image
[Charlie Parker] was kind of a sponge and intrigued by it all.That's similar to what Phil [Woods] told me about Bird, too.… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
Make a small painting of what you want to do... and project it up on a white wall... The enlarged version is… — Jim Rowe Copy Share Image
Your eyes, accustomed to semi-darkness, will soon open to more radiant visions of light. The shadows which we shall paint shall be… — Umberto Boccioni Copy Share Image
“Nor did these society people add to Elstir's work in their mind's eye that temporal perspective which enabled them to like, or… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Ideas are the old-age of art. Artists have to keep young; they must not think too much - thought is death, while… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
“This had to be kept secret, of course, since only Catholic artists were allowed to work inside the Vatican, and especially in… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
There's something to be said about the art-industrial complex, the collectors who recognize that your work has some sort of future economic… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I can't think outside of [bein' an artist]. That's how deep I am into this, and so focused that I really can't… — Tyga Copy Share Image
I'm constantly working on something new, whether it's a Garbage song, or for someone I'm producing or a song for film or… — Butch Vig Copy Share Image
I struggle every day with trying to be a better dad, a better husband, better musician, better artist. It consumes me, and… — Harry Connick, Jr Copy Share Image
Paul Robeson once said that the artist has the responsibility to either help liberate the community or further oppress it. And I… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
If you see something is going wrong within politics and the world today, then some Hip Hop artist is gonna come along… — Afrika Bambaataa Copy Share Image
I am old enough to remember the enormous fight over Tate Modern. It is such a part of our cultural landscape now,… — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
“Now and then, in philosophers or artists, one finds a passionate and exaggerated worship of 'pure forms': no one should doubt that… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly,” I read in the collection of letters written by Camille Pissarro to… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
Most contemporary artists are behind the bubble in time. They're making videos that are so incredibly boring compared to a good movie.… — Alex Katz Copy Share Image
The abstraction, ostensibly, is simply for me the penetration of something that is more profound in many ways than rigidity of a… — Beauford Delaney Copy Share Image
With drama, you need to be laughing, in between takes, 'cause you're going to those recesses of your soul and those dangerous… — Josh Peck Copy Share Image
I think I didn't know what I was creating, as much as I knew what I didn't want to do. And I… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
The great end of all arts is to make an impression on the imagination and the feeling. The imitation of nature frequently… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
The great quality of true art is that it rediscovers, grasps and reveals to us that reality far from where we live,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image