“To know in order to do, that was my idea. To be in a position to translate the customs, the ideas, the… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
I'm criticizing the way they are perceived. I was going through a book of Marina Abramovic and Ulay's 1970s performance work the… — Maurizio Cattelan Copy Share Image
My dad was a doctor who worked at a jail. He was more like a jail administrator. My mom was a public… — Dan Amboyer Copy Share Image
I prefer you to take as your model a mediocre sculpture rather than an excellent painting, for from painted objects we train… — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
Illustrations have as much to say as the text. The trick is to say the same thing, but in a different way.… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Whatever obstacle comes your way, you gotta be prepared to jump over it! And I think that's what separates the legends from… — Akon Copy Share Image
Degrade first the Arts if you'd Mankind Degrade. Hire Idiots to Paint with cold light & hot shade: Give high Price for… — William Blake Copy Share Image
My parents never had any money. It was cash flow. It flows, and you got your fingers in it for a little… — Dan Aykroyd Copy Share Image
The artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is a… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
We have defined art as the life form and aesthetic art as the life renewal: the stimulating, animating, agitating, inspiring, inspirational, fermenting,… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
The artist’s memory is a dangerous, necessary thing. Never disavow what you see and remember-it’s your brilliant stock-in-trade: remembering, and making something… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Well we took it apart scene by scene. We examined every sentence, every full stop, every comma. He has a most wonderful… — Ronald Harwood Copy Share Image
“...it is never safe to classify the souls of one's neighbors; one is apt, in the long run, to be proved a… — Hope Mirrlees Copy Share Image
I think the business of music has really taken a huge hit. There's no doubt about it. But an artist is always… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
Why try to explain away a portrait of You painted by the insecurities of another? You didn't pick the brushes, the colors,… — Eugene Nathaniel Butler Copy Share Image
Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade… — George Jones Copy Share Image
There are people who speculate at objects. I don't think that makes them evil or not evil. It doesn't matter; in order… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
I feel proud of myself for 'Chicken Shop Date' getting to a place where it's more of a mainstream thing. I've always… — Amelia Dimoldenberg Copy Share Image
Things have changed a great deal since the days of Mr. Mayer. The studios no longer control, as they did in those… — Lew Wasserman Copy Share Image
Who isn't frustrated and does not prove it by his actions - if you want to say so? But through art the… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Those damned Abstract Expressionists. They were a major problem. Because the critics adored them to such an extent, reams and reams, pages… — Robert Indiana Copy Share Image
AN ARTISTIC DISCOVERY OCCURS EACH TIME AS A NEW AND UNIQUE IMAGE OF THE WORLD, A HIEROGLYPHIC OF ABSOLUTE TRUTH. IT APPEARS… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
Whether your purpose for writing is artistic expression, communication with friends and family, the healing of the inner life, or achieving public… — Pat Schneider Copy Share Image
We're all inspired by what has come before us, but hope to use the inspiration to create our own. That's the artist's… — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
I liked painting, very early on, even more than drawing. I used poster paint on posterboard. I would copy images that I… — Mark Ryden Copy Share Image
That's the very definition of freedom: to be allowed to develop our own creative potential to the fullest. But it doesn't have… — Martin Donovan Copy Share Image
“You have to believe that your voice can mean something. You have to believe that what you do matters. And you have… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“They wanted people to wake up to a city that had been transformed into a gallery, bursts of colour amid the pigeon-coloured… — Magdalena McGuire Copy Share Image
Because when an artist has to assert that her intended audience is all humans rather than those who happen to be of… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Public Enemy started out as a benchmark in rap music in the mid-1980s. We felt there was a need to actually progress… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
The label's going great, because we're not idiots. We're not trying to sue everyone that downloads everything. We try to give the… — Al Jourgensen Copy Share Image
We as artists are actively encouraged - by other authors, your agent, publisher, and society - not to think about money, strategy,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Let us not neglect the forbidden. Let us not sophisticate ourselves out of the cheap thrill and chill of it: the story… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
First and foremost: I'm a metal fan. I'm a musician, an artist, but I'm a complete fan and I've never grown out… — Max Cavalera Copy Share Image
I said to my kids, 'Learn the business of America if you want to be an artist in America. The rest of… — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
I don't mind putting my heart out there for the audience, and for the country music fans... to be vulnerable with them...… — Tyler Farr Copy Share Image
Manet wanted one day to paint my wife and children. Renoir was there. He took a canvas and began painting them, too.… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
It seems the deeper, truer personality of the artist only emerges in the making of decisions... in refusing and accepting, changing and… — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
