Writers and musicians know well the importance of extensive reading for successful writing or extensive listening for musical composition. Likewise, visual artists...… — Paul Laseau Copy Share Image
The creative artist is the one wanting to make order out of chaos. The rest of us just accept disorder -if we… — Ursula Nordstrom Copy Share Image
A bit of advice, don't copy nature too closely. Art is an abstraction; as you dream amid nature, extrapolate art from it,… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
I grew up in repertory theaters, so it was comedy one night, drama the next. I'm used to going from one to… — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
My mind was so geared towards being a performing artist, singing all these classical pieces, but the sense of loneliness I got… — Khalid Copy Share Image
The hardest part of art-making is living your life in such a way that your work gets done-over and over-and that means,… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
In our time, we have become too interested in the artist and his or her character and experience as a way of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“He had even tried the violin a few years earlier. Anything to switch talents, but there was no escape. The compulsion was… — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
But when I realized it was actually going to be this portrait of the artist, birth to death, I had to then… — Danielle Dutton Copy Share Image
“But fans, including critics, of particular movements of artists, tend to want what they love to stay the same, the regression is… — George Grella Jr Copy Share Image
Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the… — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
I was in the 1993 Whitney Biennial and the 1994 'Black Male' show at the Whitney, and I've never seen such vicious… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
I feel like I have to avoid certain thrift store-isms, having been known for the thrift store paintings. It's like I have… — Jim Shaw Copy Share Image
“I had painted a lot of landscapes, had stood before many while they burned their remote beauty into my skin, but had… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
“Those who believe that art proceeds from a healthy, and not from a diseased, faculty of the mind will take what he… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I really value the freedom I have as a Christian that's an artist but not necessarily a Christian artist. I think it… — Ben Rector Copy Share Image
Just as theater has to be where people live, actors have to go out in the marketplace - not be cut off… — Ralph Waite Copy Share Image
My dad's an artist, and my grandfather paints - he's not a painter; my grandfather's a butcher - but he does a… — Brett Dalton Copy Share Image
Behind all these manifestations is the one radiance, which shines through all things. The function of art is to reveal this radiance… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
When I got signed as a songwriter, I immediately thought, 'Oh, no one sees me as an artist because I don't look… — Meghan Trainor Copy Share Image
I'm very glad I've got a make-up artist. I have trouble going to school when I've got bad spots and things like… — Georgie Henley Copy Share Image
We think it's a blessing that we were able to bring our music to the world. That our music has not only… — Rza Copy Share Image
I am very fascinated by the idea of hyperbole in subject matter as well as production. I like the idea of going… — Larissa Sansour Copy Share Image
I never met Publo Picasso. I took pictures at the Festival d'Avignon, but I was too shy to ask to go in… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
It is no secret that any talented player must in his soul be an artist, and what could be dearer to his… — David Bronstein Copy Share Image
We came up with all these crazy ideas that Taylor Swift could be the biggest artist in the world - and it… — Scott Borchetta Copy Share Image
When I was a young actor, I just didn’t understand how to function in this business as an artist. It is a… — James Franco Copy Share Image
Being independent is more of a mind state more than anything else. A lot of people don't understand that being an independent… — Yo Gotti Copy Share Image
I have no artistic sensibilities. I wish I did. It is probably really cool. I have work habits and work ethic. For… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
If people would just look at the paintings, I don't think they would have any trouble enjoying them. It's like looking at… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
I admire Ai Weiwei for his art and his activism. His art is beautiful in form, and in function embodies the principles… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
“I no longer believed that Valentino would continue to build anything at all. Instead, he would merely leave behind the empire of… — Michael Ennis Copy Share Image
The only tool we have as artists is selectivity. If you're a painter, you select the color, the lines, how severe they… — Jack Klugman Copy Share Image
Who is willing to be satisfied with a job that expresses all his limitations? He will accept such work only as a… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
It feels good, it feels like a badge of honor, honestly. Amongst the artists here, in California, that festival is such a… — Zella Day Copy Share Image
In life courtesy and self-possession, and in the arts style, are the sensible impressions of the free mind, for both arise out… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
As an artist, you reflect the world around you. To do that, you must dive in, take risks, fall on your face,… — Kellie Martin Copy Share Image
The new artist is meeting the general public before they meet the record company. They're able to put the material on YouTube… — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
I think, basically, if you talk to anybody, you can gauge an idea of what it's like to feel deceived. You don't… — Inbar Lavi Copy Share Image
Art is the space between the viewer and the rectangle that hangs on the wall. Unless something of the person that created… — T. Allen Lawson Copy Share Image
