There are any number of models artists can use to profit off of their talent and artistry. It is not up to… — Stephan Kinsella Copy Share Image
To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
With regards to music, I don't want to pigeonhole myself and say I am a musician or a visual artist, because I… — Frances Bean Cobain Copy Share Image
Most of the time, with artists like me who go on to become superstars, you never see them when they are still… — Kevin Abstract Copy Share Image
I'm a secretive bastard. I would never let anybody watch me painting... it would be like somebody watching you have sex -… — Andrew Wyeth Copy Share Image
My reason [for making my own paint] is to force a real-time experience of the work. Most work today is experienced by… — Ryan McGinness Copy Share Image
I don't know who made up this sort of greatest-hits list for artists. If one artist isn't moving forward anymore, then it's… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
The arts can enrich all of us in this nation as individuals. The arts can enrich all of our communities and the… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
“It's her ability as an artist to see possibility where others see a blank page and, by extension, to see victory where… — Sarah Cross Copy Share Image
“It’s not enough to be the best. You also have to be seen by the most. A masterpiece painting hanging in the… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
A secondhand wardrobe hand clothes doesn't make one an artist. Neither do a hair-trigger temper, melancholic nature, propensity for tears, hating your… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
The twentieth-century artist who uses symbols is alienated because the system of symbols is a private one. After you have dealt with… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
In almost every task involving form, there are dozens, often hundreds of contradictory elements, which need to be forced to work in… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
If someone separated the art of counting and measuring and weighing from all the other arts, what was left of each (of… — Plato Copy Share Image
I think for new artists the hardest thing is putting the face with a name. People maybe heard our song on the… — Charles Kelley Copy Share Image
Their task [creative artists], therefore, is to communicate directly from one inward world to another, in such a way that an actual… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
When the motives of artists are profound, when they are at their work as a result of deep consideration, when they believe… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
What a funny thing painting is. The abstract painters always insist on their connection with the visible reality, while the so called… — Marlene Dumas Copy Share Image
Listen to the sermon preached to you by the flowers, the trees, the shrubs, the sky, and the whole world. Notice how… — Paul of the Cross Copy Share Image
An object of art creates a public capable of finding pleasure in its beauty. Production, therefore, not only produces an object for… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The sound of water escaping from mill-dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork.those scenes made me a painter and… — John Constable Copy Share Image
Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
I have a lot of creative control, so I can decide what I want to wear, what I want my brand to… — Daya Copy Share Image
Art always used to involve spirit. Painters painted spirit. They painted by commission things to go into churches, and that was painting… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
“Artists,‚Äù he said, ‚Äúare people who say, 'I can't fix my country or my state or my city, or even my marriage.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The most convincing artistic forms of our time are inner models of structural vitality and social relevance. They give us confidence that… — Gyorgy Kepes Copy Share Image
Social media and music in general have been changing so fast. You can go on Twitter and go from one artist to… — Juanes Copy Share Image
I think about art a lot only in two contexts. One is narrative... The other thing that I'm interested in, which is… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
“We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I am working here (in Amsterdam) on my last big triptych, which will be a tremendous story, and which gives me a… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
There were always people like the pope. They serve a certain function, of course. They subsidize us. But, they don't create anything… — Andrew Schneider Copy Share Image
I just paint to fulfill an urge. When I don't have the urge, I just don't paint. This is not some stupid… — Jim Rowe Copy Share Image
Do not wonder that I am so religious. An artist who is not could not produce anything like this. I like praying… — Antonin Dvorak Copy Share Image
You always want to try and evolve an art form. It's not a very humble ambition; it reeks of arrogance. If you… — Jay Baruchel Copy Share Image
Art work is inconclusive. It opens your mind up. At least, that's what I hope it does. And advertising, using exactly the… — Alison Jackson Copy Share Image
People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
As an artist, we have a big influence, and we should always think if we are doing more harm than good to… — Coco Martin Copy Share Image
My lovely wife Janet has been in a few paintings. She is basically a reserved woman who has never sought the limelight.… — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
I had two great art teachers at school, but even they tried to tell me it was too hard a world. But… — Cornelia Parker Copy Share Image
What people really should be able to be confident in is that the standards of music- making that classically trained musicians present… — Lesley Garrett Copy Share Image
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