Not only do we end up with a vivid, surprising and soulful sense of one artist and his work, but Leigh also… — Dave Calhoun Copy Share Image
“Nature is beautiful because it looks like Art; and Art can only be called beautiful if we are conscious of it as… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
Drew Friedman isn't just a brilliant artist. He takes you to a place. He takes you back in time. He makes you… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
It's one thing to turn up and jump around stage and give people a good time - that's obviously a big part… — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
The truth is that art does not teach; it makes you feel, and any teaching that may arise from the feeling is… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“As a working definition of art, I lean toward Tolstoy's: "Art is a human activity having for it's purpose the transmission to… — Gene Logsdon Copy Share Image
I am thankful that geniuses and artists and good people, no matter how hard it is, will eventually be recognized. I am… — Elayne Boosler Copy Share Image
The way of the martial artist is the way of enduring, surviving and prevailing over all that would destroy him. More than… — Toshitsugu Takamatsu Copy Share Image
To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
My paint is like a rocket, which describes its own space. I try to make the impossible possible. What is happening I… — Karel Appel Copy Share Image
To be an artist you have to be as much a businessman to succeed, you have to spend an equal amount of… — Debbie Harry Copy Share Image
I like art that challenges you and makes a lot of people angry because they don't get it. Because they refuse to… — John Waters Copy Share Image
Once, Picasso was asked what his paintings meant. He said, “Do you ever know what the birds are singing? You don’t. But… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
The precision of their goals allows conceptual artists to be satisfied that they have produced one or more works that achieve a… — David Galenson Copy Share Image
The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Einstein is notmerely an artist in his moments of leisure and play, as a great statesman may play golf or a great… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
One thing that I am becoming to learn is that you've got to have patience and wait your turn in this game.… — Omarion Copy Share Image
Art, if it is successful in the task of questioning reality, if it is good painting and not merely a performance of… — Patrick Swift Copy Share Image
Say you are doing a portrait and the face is perfectly done, but the rest of it is done in brushstrokes. That… — Michael Snow Copy Share Image
Everything is gestation and bringing forth. To let each impression and each germ of feeling come to completion wholly in itself, in… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Being unique seems more desirable than ever. People are exhausted by clichés, by platitudes, by mass-produced realities, by what's been done and… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
Through our own creative experience we came to know that the real tradition in art is not housed only in museums and… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
What's happening in the larger world always influences art. When I first started the gallery in 1959, one of the first things… — Virginia Dwan Copy Share Image
My boyfriend has always been a collector of art. He once rang up Paul Kenton and asked him to paint a New… — Amy Macdonald Copy Share Image
Naked I came into the world, but brush strokes cover me, language raises me, music rhythms me. Art is my rod and… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The person who appreciates a great work of art has the feeling that the work grows in him as he becomes involved… — Silvano Arieti Copy Share Image
Kenneth Hari does not paint portraits as they are but as he is. I feel he is hiding something from me. To… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I picked Pacifica was because, for a lot of classes and for your thesis, you could do artwork… — Kelly Carlin-McCall Copy Share Image
To me Art's subject is the human clay, / And landscape but a background to a torso; / All Cezanne's apples I… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
We have to have the money to do the work we want to do, as well as to keep a roof over… — Elizabeth Aston Copy Share Image
If you look at how great artists of the past, like Beethoven, for example dealt with art and morality, you see that… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
There's blackballing involved with Machine Gun Kelly, a lot of confusion about who I am as an artist. But that's so small… — Machine Gun Kelly Copy Share Image
The amount which cannot be harnessed and domesticated, but insists on its own form of activity rather than one which is offered… — Beatrice M. Hinkle Copy Share Image
I know how difficult it is to make a career in the arts, but even if you don't make a career of… — Dave Franco Copy Share Image
Every intelligent person, whether hes an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of… — Yehuda Amichai Copy Share Image
The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“Watching Dad figure things out was like watching an artist paint a picture. He used to say an investigation was a lot… — James R. Benn Copy Share Image
“It is wrong to assume that art needs the spectator in order to be. The film runs on without any eyes. The… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
Success has a lot of things that go along with it and I haven't experienced any personal resentment. I can't control any… — Matthew Weiner Copy Share Image
