When you look at the paintings at Chauvet Cave, they're not primitive or like children's little scribbles, it bursts on the scene… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The debut show, “Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary,” is supposed to be about how artists reuse humble or unusual materials. There’s good… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
From 11 to 17, I just toured my butt off with my dad and my sister. We hit the road and I… — Gabby Barrett Copy Share Image
Coaching is my way of helping aspiring and professional writers get the kind of help and guidance that it took me years… — Steven C. Harper Copy Share Image
The connection I have with my fans is so important, and I want to break the boundaries and break the barriers between… — Yungblud Copy Share Image
Photographs will always be impressive because they show us nature, and all artists will find in them a world of sensations. The… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
“I wonder whether you have noticed that man is the only animal who draws his picture, his own picture. No other animal… — Osho Copy Share Image
“The discovery of useful forms is precious. Once found, they should never be abandoned for trivial reasons. It’s easy to imagine today’s… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
I didn't go to art school. So, I never had this moment of taking time to actually learn how to make things… — Agathe Snow Copy Share Image
For too many centuries women have been being muses to artists. I wanted to be the muse, I wanted to be the… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
In art there are two principal schools between which each aspirant has to choose--one distinguished by its close adherence to nature, and… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
I think the biggest lesson is the common one that gets in the way of most of us as artists - there… — Lela Loren Copy Share Image
Growing up I didn't want to be an actor. I sort of didn't want to go into the family business; the main… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
“After all, the world population of artists has exploded, almost no one is not an artist now; in turning our attention inward,… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I was an abstract expressionist before I had seen any abstract expressionist paintings. I started when I was a kid and continued… — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
Create quality art… meaningful, passionate and high quality work! If it's not meaningful to you, how can you expect it to be… — Cory Trepanier Copy Share Image
I think all art is, by nature, intended to motivate society for change, and the only reason change doesn't happen is because… — Wadada Leo Smith Copy Share Image
“You painted all those characters into the paintings all over the school, and every one of them is a portrait of you,… — G. Norman Lippert Copy Share Image
I've heard many times that with all good artists it's ultimately a self-portrait even if it's an abstraction. I feel my work… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
Every time some new huckster of angst-ridden metaphor is appointed by Art Forum, the congregation genuflects, stroking the catalog like a handful… — Abe Ajay Copy Share Image
Willem de Kooning paintings are a language to be learned. When they were first shown, they were ridiculed as being just drips… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
I've been working for this industry since I was 15, and every makeup artist I've known who's worth my time uses Jao… — Logan Browning Copy Share Image
I believe myself to be an artist. That was my calling, to do my work, and what's most important to me is… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The composer reveals the innermost nature of the world, and expresses the profoundest wisdom in a language that his reasoning faculty does… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there's no point in it. . .… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
For me, artists and people that are passionate are fighting for what they believe in and what they want, and that's always… — Noomi Rapace Copy Share Image
“Entering that gable-ended Spouter-Inn, you found yourself in a wide, low, straggling entry with old-fashioned wainscots, reminding one of the bulwarks of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
At school, I was basically a loner, it was hard until I was 15 or so. Then I went to art school… — Gilbert O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
“was proud of them because he himself had painted them. The order for the seats amounted to $90,000. Who do you suppose… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
What does it mean when you hook up your work to that of a late modernist giant working in a reductive vein… — John Yau Copy Share Image
Art and science have so much in common - the process of trial and error, finding something new and innovative, and to… — Peter M. Brant Copy Share Image
Look at the paintings of Picasso. He is a great painter, but just a subjective artist. Looking at his paintings, you will… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You're never going to release the next album and have it be different from your other two, three, four, five albums. People… — Benson Henderson Copy Share Image
Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see. I don't know what a… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
“The first demand any work of art makes upon us is surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way. (There… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I don’t think the shortage of artists has much to do with the innate ability to create or initiate. I think it… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
It was only after I had been out of the art school that I actually copied a small Seurat, and I copied… — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for upsized art and more of it. I've heard of photographers asked to print larger to… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
