As artists, are we quasi psychiatrists who mend the soul? Do we provide the consolations, escapes, and reassurances which enable us to… — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
Those artists who say that somehow therapy or analysis will thwart their creativity are completely misinformed. It's absolutely the opposite: it opens… — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
The artist's role is to do what is honest for them. So if you're in New York and everyone is looking at… — James T. Hubbell Copy Share Image
The art world is an all-volunteer force. No one has to be here if he or she doesn't want to be, and… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
We live in a media saturated world. I'm sure artists of the past would have dealt with it in just the same… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
There are times when I have started a work with an end in mind, but then, for one reason or another, as… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
The oldest theory of art belongs to the Greeks, who regarded art as an imitation (mimesis) of reality. The strength of that… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
“Art has no influence upon action. It annihilates the desire to act. It is superbly sterile. The books that the world calls… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I draw to shock myself out of a too-easy rhythm - I may begin with no conception whatever, an image emerges .… — Sean William Scott Copy Share Image
Ruskin's much-derided moral theory of art was part of an attempt to show that this human activity, which we value so highly,… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
“One of Leonardo da Vinci's most famous creations is his painting of The Last Supper. It is said that while Leonardo da… — Fred Andrea Copy Share Image
I think when somebody's painting they don't necessarily... I'm not illustrating what I know. I'm mapping out, like topographically, some terrain I… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
There is a difference between a fighter and a martial artist. A fighter is training for a purpose: He has a fight.… — Georges St-Pierre Copy Share Image
“See, the institutions and specialist, experts, you see. Yes, yes, experts, indeed. See, they would have us believe that there is an… — Cristina Marrero Copy Share Image
Dada was given the Venus of Milo a clyster and has allowed the Laocoön and his sons to rest awhile, after thousands… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
Can I confess something? I tell you this as an artist, I think you'll understand. Sometimes when I'm driving on the road… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
I find that the great artists I've met are people who are so playfully invested in their process that, even if it… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
An artist attunes to what things are, which means sort of listening to the future, which is just how things are -… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
I always try to make everyone mellow down, make sure everybody's happy. The people I have employed have always kind of stayed… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
“Any form of art can only develop by means of single mutations by individual creators. If only traditional conventions are used an… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
I think, in this country, we have a problem where we view the arts as charity, and therefore, it has no value.… — Jason Ralph Copy Share Image
“..:Putting on appereances is like painting a house without primer. The paint will deffenetly peel off and sooner than later and will… — Rafael Garcia Copy Share Image
When you give an artist a canvas, you shouldn't tell him exactly how much paint to put on it, or exactly how… — Reed Hundt Copy Share Image
“Sometimes diaspora art expresses a longing for home, and frequently it tries to construct a collective identity out of its mostly heterogeneous… — Sieglinde Lemke Copy Share Image
To be a great artist, you need to know yourself as best as you possibly can. I live my life and delve… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
Even though everybody who looked at me would call me a Chinese artist, that's the 1980s. New York in the '80s was… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I've heard it said that grace is God reaching God's hands into the world. And the Bible tells us that we are… — Cathleen Falsani Copy Share Image
You can simulate perfection, but it's not the same. Some one can do a copy of Rembrandt, but it's not a Rembrandt.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Behind every work of art lies the enormous pretension of exhibiting one's vision of the world. If such obvious arrogance is not… — Amélie Nothomb Copy Share Image
If I had to spend equal time doing paintings, and equal time going to galleries and doing art business, and equal time… — Debbie Harry Copy Share Image
The arts investigate the properties of the world by playing with materials - such as stone, paint, fabric, synthetic substances, the human… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
I think all art comes out of conflict. When I write I am always looking for the dramatic kernel of an event,… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I tear my heart open I sow myself shut and my weakness is that I care to much and my scars remind… — Papa Roach Copy Share Image
I always try to go where the excitement is, where the best music is. I dont care what kind of music it… — Jimmy Iovine Copy Share Image
I began to go to concerts when I was 12 years old. And I would stand there, the small imp that I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I did not go to art school thinking that I was an artist; I went there mainly doing stage sets for bands.… — Pipilotti Rist Copy Share Image
I like Cung. He's a good guy and a good martial artist. He doesn't sell a fight very well, but he looks… — Frank Shamrock Copy Share Image
The artist constructs a new symbol with his brush. This symbol is not a recognizable form of anything which is already finished,… — El Lissitzky Copy Share Image
I was selling a piece of my art on eBay from The Escapist, which was an adaptation of The Adventures of Kavalier… — Eric Wight Copy Share Image
