Money messes up everything. It ruins art. The second you start putting price tags on this stuff, it's... Art isn't for just… — John Gourley Copy Share Image
I made a lot mistakes that I'm grateful for, because I won't make them again and I won't let my artists make… — Fred Durst Copy Share Image
“I think if you are a musician, and artist, you have to have a certain courage. Repeating yourself or photocopying other's art...… — Thomas Gabriel Fischer Copy Share Image
I am a very, very strong advocate of the notion that we shouldn't equate the arts with other aspects of infrastructure. They… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
The bottom line is we must get off our duff and make an effort to succeed. Trust me on this, when you… — Jack White Copy Share Image
Yeah, it's not that I wanted to do a painting, I wanted to do writing like that. What jolted me about Jasper… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
I believe it is no wrong Observation, that Persons of Genius, and those who are most capable of Art, are always fond… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The artist is to be exempt from the moral laws that are binding on ordinary people. Just pronounce the magic word "Art,"… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The receptivity of the artist must never be confused with passivity. Receptivity is the artist's holding him or herself alive and open… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“I think museums are dead boring. I don't like most of the pictures on their walls. With modern pieces you never know… — Jutta Profijt Copy Share Image
It's very natural and simple to me, drawing, because I've drawn since I was a kid. It's just the most normal thing… — Abbi Jacobson Copy Share Image
When a painting problem crops up, don't rush to fix it. You probably already know one way to fix it, but wait… — Carole Katchen Copy Share Image
One of the most valuable things one of my art teachers said to me was, ‘Don’t get upset by criticism. Value the… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
It's much more liberating as a artist to feel like you can approach each page and each panel with the way that… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
If we make up our minds that this is a drab and purposeless universe, it will be that, and nothing else. On… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
As artists and professionals, it is our obligation to enact our own internal revolution, a private insurrection inside our own skulls. In… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Your poems are rather hard to understand, whereas your paintings are so easy. Easy? Of course - you paint flowers and girls… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
The starting-point for all systems of aesthetics must be the personal experience of a peculiar emotion. The objects that provoke this emotion… — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
I have the '77 Million Paintings' running in my studio a lot of the time. Occasionally I'll look up from what I'm… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Effective as perspective is... it becomes a deadening influence on an artist's natural way of seeing things once it is accepted as… — Graham Collier Copy Share Image
Art, unlike the trades in the artistic capacity of fashion and food, can literally be anything. It can be the negation of… — Richard Phillips Copy Share Image
It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Every now and then, I feel terribly uncomfortable with what I'm working on, and then I think maybe I am an artist.… — Tom Hollander Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's just the creative intent of an artist or band that inspires me. I'm generally drawn to artists or bands that… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
When I work alone, it can be like dabbling with a canvas. Maybe you paint over bits, and it starts to form… — Lindsey Buckingham Copy Share Image
Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple. Successful ideas generally have the appearance of simplicity because they seem inevitable. In terms… — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
“the artist descends within himself, and in that lonely region of stress and strife, if he be deserving and fortunate, he finds… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a narrative artist. I don't think of myself as a novelist or screenwriter or playwright. All of… — Ayad Akhtar Copy Share Image
“Do you know the anecdote about Rubens? He was serving Holland as Ambassador to Spain and used to spend the afternoon in… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
“I've seen only painters and fishermen and I think they're both the same kind of men who made a different choice one… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
The New York art world readily proves people wrong. Just when folks say that things stink and flibbertigibbet critics wish the worst… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
My particular aesthetic of light and color and design wouldn't change as a result of working with computer graphics rather than with… — Douglas Trumbull Copy Share Image
An artist in my view is always afraid of extremists; he is always afraid of those who claim to have found the… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Color is one of the great things in the world that makes life worth living to me and as I have come… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
I think I was born an artist. But the key is that I have a mom that encouraged and supported my artistic… — Julia Stiles Copy Share Image
As a working-class girl, receiving free school dinners, I studied art history. Having never had the chance to visit art galleries, I… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
Through the last few decades it [the art object] has been ripped off the wall and twisted through every conceivable permutation, yet… — Ashley Bickerton Copy Share Image
A picture of human life such as a great artist can give, surprises even the trivial and the selfish into that attention… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We don't have real hours and we don't have a boss, so artists create rules for themselves that they then break. It's… — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
You can grow grapes in almost any part of the world. You just have to develop your palate enough to realize wine… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
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