For now, I'm supposing that all movements are equal, which they're not, except in this respect: that none of them gives a… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
I'm not sure I'm going to be that type of artist but I do love cultural icons. Like Solange has been really… — NAO Copy Share Image
Part of the reason that these attempts at explanation fail, I think, is that photographers, like all artists, choose their medium because… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
“I began to understand art as a kind of black box the reader enters. He enters in one state of mind and… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
As I've grown as an artist, I've learned that my mission statement is really self-expression. I don't want anybody to classify my… — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
Whether it's just the career path of doing independent music, being an artist, however you want to pigeon-hole it, it creates a… — Doseone Copy Share Image
All human action is expressive; a gesture is an intentionally expressive action. All art is expressive - of its author and of… — Norbert Lynton Copy Share Image
In the beginning I drew and painted from nature in order to know her. Then later, only to fall under her spell.… — William Baziotes Copy Share Image
I have respect for those who make money at art and do it well and smartly, because that commercial aspect keeps the… — Tina Weymouth Copy Share Image
Whoever is in charge of the artist will always have the upper hand. They act like it's the artists' world, but it's… — Sonny Sandoval Copy Share Image
Donald Trump has the benefit of the fact that he's dominated media coverage, I mean, literally dominated media coverage because of the… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective… — Boris Sidis Copy Share Image
The painter who draws by practise and judgment of the eye without the use of reason is like the mirror which reproduces… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
In life and art we need to make sure that we honour that which our hearts and brains tell us is good.… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
“Damien Hirst is acceptable because he's a brand. It's like buying a Porche. Hardline conservatives will never accept it, others think it's… — Qatar cultural official Copy Share Image
Experiments in the visual arts (the invention of new ways of seeing things), are made because, due to the way the apparatus… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
“Perhaps because of all the money poured into this, the things behind the spanking displays look old and crummy, like articles from… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
I think fashion is art. The dialogue I am concerned with as an artist has more to do with the art and… — Paul Rusconi Copy Share Image
Warhol and other Pop artists had brought the art religion of art for art's sake to an end. If art was only… — Dan Graham Copy Share Image
Tove Jansson was the most successful Finnish illustrator and writer of children's books of her day, and she was the most widely… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
“I had no time to make a world of my own. I had to stay fixed, like Atlas, my feet on the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The ugliest spectacle is that of artists selling themselves. Art as a commodity is an ugly idea... The artist as businessman is… — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
I don't like to write a script unless I know who the artist is. A lot of people can do it without… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Yes, and Duchamp too, when he was asked what he thought about God, said, 'Let's not talk about that. That's man's stupidest… — Richard Kostelanetz Copy Share Image
“A work of art doesn’t need to provide complete answers in order to succeed. It needs only to excite us into asking… — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
Europe isn't something connected by the Euro. Every little dimension of Europe is so hugely different, and I think America is different… — Patrick Wolf Copy Share Image
“Whenever I listen to an artist or an art historian I'm struck by how much they see and how much they know… — William Knowlton Zinsser Copy Share Image
I realize it's about the artists and about the fans. Those are the people who truly have the power. It's like politics,… — David Banner Copy Share Image
Only lifeless mechanisms move along faultlessly straight lines and compass circles. In art the surest way to destroy is to canonize one… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
While most students were trying to draw one beautiful finished piece, I would be in the background drawing dozens of studies at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“If you have walked into a museum recently - whether you did so to attend an art exhibition or to escape from… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
To my way of thinking, the concept drawings that Rembrandt did, the drawings he made that he used to model his artists,… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“Anyone can have original style,” he countered. “And yet no one truly does. We’re influenced by those who came before us, beginning… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
An artist must only judge of what he understands, his field is just as limited as that of any other specialist... That… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“All great work—artistic, poetic, intellectual or spiritual—is produced at those moments when its creators are lost completely in their actions, when they… — Walpola Rahula Copy Share Image
I suggest that what artists do in all media can be summarized as deliberately performing the operations that occur instinctively during a… — Ellen Dissanayake Copy Share Image
What people that are professionals in the art world - both in literature and the other arts - always try to do… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
