Inarticulate wretches have been behind most of the major advances in civilization. If Vincent Van Gogh had been able to get on… — Declan Lynch Copy Share Image
I'm transitioning from being a starving artist. My producers had success outside of the Daniel Caesar brand, so they invested money, time… — Daniel Caesar Copy Share Image
“Painted Things I love my work and take pains with it. But today I find the slow pace of composition discouraging. The… — Constantinos P. Cavafis Copy Share Image
I'm not really sure what social message my art carries, if any. And I don't really want it to carry one. I'm… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
I think my masks reference artists who reference primitivism. They're not directly connected to tribal arts. I think they look more like… — Mark Grotjahn Copy Share Image
My art teacher was really encouraging me, because he really liked that I could draw. I felt very torn. At that time,… — Maria Cornejo Copy Share Image
There are so many different ways to make art. And so many good stories. You don't have to have a budget. I… — Amandla Stenberg Copy Share Image
If sculpture can really deal with the body, because we all inhabit ourselves, and if sculpture can really do that, which it… — Anish Kapoor Copy Share Image
When I was about seven, one or two people encouraged me, and art became an enormous and important refuge. By adolescence, I… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“The Joker's henchmen break into the museum and empty the display cases; this occurs repeatedly, again and again: finally it can be… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I don't suspect that in many instances the artists who are dedicated in that fashion to the progress of that community are… — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
Right now as an artist, what I want to do is be a part of works that are unignorable. I couldn't be… — Bryce Dallas Howard Copy Share Image
We often hear the terms 'positional' and 'tactical' used as opposites. But this is as wrong as to consider a painting's composition… — Samuel Reshevsky Copy Share Image
I can remember various stages when I wanted to be an artist, a football coach, and a musician but never an actor.… — Fred MacMurray Copy Share Image
If you walk into a coffee shop in 1903 Vienna, you might find at the same table the artist Gustav Klimt, Sigmund… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“You must want to enough. Enough to take all the rejections, enough to pay the price of disappointment and discouragement while you… — Phyllis Whitney Copy Share Image
A work of art is something produced by a person, but is not that person — it is of her, but is… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“I’ve had so many influences and sources of inspiration as an illustrator that it is impossible to name just one. I loved… — Alan Lee Copy Share Image
Art gives man a reminder that he is not just a consumer but a creator as well. It awakens in him the… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
I'm really into the recycling of art. That one piece of art inspires another piece of art, which inspires another piece of… — Mark Foster Copy Share Image
“With the manipulation of abstract symbols, an artist can send you information without sound, change your feelings and, sometimes, even beliefs. Artists… — Jonathan Culver Copy Share Image
The most basic excitement was the opportunity to work with Dave Cockrum. He was an artist I'd admired for years and our… — Chris Claremont Copy Share Image
Some drawings are better than others... Some are utterly spoiled... I keep them all. I find a use sometimes even for the… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
We're all given a window of opportunity, I think all artists are, of any genre. A window when you're truly relevant, the… — Eric Church Copy Share Image
I remember being influenced by great artists when I was a kid - not to call myself a great artist - but… — Sarah Jones Copy Share Image
One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he does have to be an artist to… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I hate this life of the fashionable world, always ordered, measured, ruled, like our music-paper. What I have always wished for, desired,… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Art gives a sense of order, life is basically chaotic, and there's a tension between them. A sense of order comes from… — Alfred Brendel Copy Share Image
It's really absurd to make... a human image, with paint, today, when you think about it... But then all of a sudden,… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
Great art would have 'head': it would have interesting intellectual ideas and concepts. It would have 'heart' in that it would have… — Shea Hembrey Copy Share Image
So I am happy with what I did. And I tell you something, when an artist does something, he doesn't have at… — Mahmoud Reda Copy Share Image
The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepen his understanding… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
It isn’t only art that is incompatible with happiness, it’s also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
We can't suddenly quit a job and then race to find a form of art that will pay off before the next… — Seth Copy Share Image
I'm interested in that way we perceive things, and that was part of what I was getting into in painting - the… — Kurt Wagner Copy Share Image
My friend Harry Nilsson used to say the definition of an artist was someone who rode way ahead of the herd and… — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
“If you are born of the artist tribe it is a waste of time to try and function as a priest. You… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
I always thought that it was every performer's dream. That's the epitome of being an artist, being able to express song, dance… — Deborah Cox Copy Share Image
“The painting of your home is something that is very important. This is because it is something that people can see. It… — Brian Erik Jamison Copy Share Image
I'm pretty rubbish, as we say in Britain, artwise, and I always envy people who can pick up something and even do… — Freddie Highmore Copy Share Image
