Art makes people do a double take and then, if they're looking at the picture, maybe they'll read the text under it… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
I'd rather have people really be able to step back and get their money's worth and look at me as a true… — Haley Reinhart Copy Share Image
“I think, in art, it is as noble a thing as to to try to make people happy, to help them escape,… — Lucy Foley Copy Share Image
Art is, for me, the process of trying to wake up the soul. Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
Maybe I don't have the same sense of humor. Maybe people aren't comfortable gauging a painting that way. They think that if… — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
A lot of the songs are pretty unmasked. If you listen to "As Cool As I Am," it's not all that different… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
The reason they look the way they do is that the first drawing I did of them was really small so I… — Craig McCracken Copy Share Image
Focusing totally on technique, you lose the essence and power of simplicity... The other extreme is just as bad; you see it… — George L. Carlson Copy Share Image
Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the… — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Even when the light at the end does seem faint. You are the creator with the canvas and the paint. It's never… — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
Nothing can be true which is either complete or vacant; every touch is false which does not suggest more than it represents,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
PROMOTE A REVOLUTIONARY FLOOD AND TIDE IN ART. Promote living art, anti-art, promote NON ART REALITY to be fully grasped by all… — George Maciunas Copy Share Image
Every painting I do blends time frames. The great thing about being an artist is I can make the past join the… — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
Having that little bit of breathing room to work, and not feeling like it's going to fall apart at any second, has… — Will Sheff Copy Share Image
It is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusion of actuality which is his… — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
I'm a classically trained painter, and I was an illustrator in New York working with Fortune 500s companies as well as the… — Richard MacDonald Copy Share Image
If it weren't for 'Cuckoo's Nest,' it would be very difficult for me. It gave me a cushion to live at my… — Milos Forman Copy Share Image
“Art is always more abstract than we fancy. Form and colour tell us of form and colour - that is all. It… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I believe all artists, if they are not lying to themselves, must believe that the best part of their work, or even… — Jan Saudek Copy Share Image
In college, I thought I wanted to be solely an artist, and then when I got here, to college, I was like,… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
Go with your gut every single time. It's never, ever wrong. Even if feels like everybody else is telling you that you… — Tatiana Maslany Copy Share Image
My manager lives on my block; four of the apartments in my apartment complex of seven are people I know. It's a… — Grimes Copy Share Image
“And even if something had once been committed to paper, did it mean that it was still true? Always true? Unlike the… — Robin Oliveira Copy Share Image
To be earning a living as an artist at any time, any place is kinda the ultimate gift that you can receive… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
The artist is always concerned with a total view of the world. However, when the photographer takes a picture ... the edge… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
The impulse of nature, fused through the personality of the artist by laws arising from the particular nature of the medium, produces… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
Sciences provide an understanding of a universal experience, Arts are a universal understanding of a personal experience... they are both a part… — Mae Jemison Copy Share Image
“It takes me living an intentional, mindful, and quiet life to hear or see what’s here. Great art doesn’t necessarily create something… — Eric Overby Copy Share Image
“Art is painful, Layla. It’s potentially dangerous. Explosive. It takes everything from you, sometimes more than you can afford. It’s a beast,… — Saffron A. Kent Copy Share Image
The lust that drives others to enslave an empire, had become, in her limits, a passion for power over him. She had… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
The states of birth, suffering, love, and death, are extreme states: extreme, universal, and inescapable. We all know this, but we would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Almost nothing worthwhile is easy, and it's hard to just jump in and be good at something difficult right off the bat...… — John Gruber Copy Share Image
I don't have any talent as an artist but I do have an awareness for business and what you need to bring… — Bernie Ecclestone Copy Share Image
A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know… — Q-Tip Copy Share Image
It is the bareness of drawing that I like. The act of drawing is what locates, suggests, discovers. At times it seems… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what I'm… — Gallagher Copy Share Image
“When Leonardo was painting The Last Supper (fig. 74), spectators would visit and sit quietly just so they could watch him work.… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
