Art arises in those strange complexities of action that are called human beings. It is a kind of human behavior. As such… — Baker Brownell Copy Share Image
It's so much of what art and creativity are, being able to confront your own demons. If you can do that, you… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
All art is based on nonconformity ... Without nonconformity we would have had no Bill of Rights or Magna Carta, no public… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
An artist finds his happiest combination in a play of complementary colors. They are direct contrasts yet do not jar; they awaken… — Charles E. Burchfield Copy Share Image
I've always envied people who compose music or paint, because they don't have to be bothered with the sort of crude mess… — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
I think for anyone who follows the 'artistic life,' a certain amount of selfishness and self-involvement is part of the package. You're… — David Chase Copy Share Image
Our wishes are our most reliable mirror, and the black-and-white movies I'm most drawn to are about artists who suffer because art… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
“What would you do if you saw something nobody else could see?” The tape gun fell out of Luke’s hand, and hit… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
One feature about Los Angeles that I particularly love is the chance for association with all kinds of creative artists, a thing… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
We need to understand that there is a process of learning and experience and success will stem from this. The painting represents… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
It's inherently a part of my childhood and my development as a person and an artist, this childlike feeling knowing that something… — Ethan Slater Copy Share Image
Art-making is learned by immersion. You take in vocabularies of thought and feeling, grammar, diction, gesture, from the poems of others, and… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
I like to treat paint as material - to daub it, drop it, let it slide. There was Action Painting, but I… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
The average artist, if he chooses, could render an exact drawing of what he sees. Artistic work not only allows but demands… — Edgar Alwin Payne Copy Share Image
As long as the artist invents and is inspired, he remains in a constrained state of mind, at least for the purpose… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The only hope I had was when (in his youth)I saw one day a photograph of a sculpture by Wilhelm Lehmbruck, a… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
Being a fan of authentic Dada, I find today's art - what I call 'Bankers' Dada' - mind-numbingly dull. The most challenging… — Billy Childish Copy Share Image
The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
A defective voice will always preclude an artist from achieving the complete development of his art, however intelligent he may be… The… — Sarah Bernhardt Copy Share Image
I think art should stand in its own neutral place, because I think that's how reality always is - it's this duality… — Weyes Blood Copy Share Image
I have these large pieces of recycled brown paper stretched on my apartment wall and when I am not doing anything fashion-related,… — Sasha Pivovarova Copy Share Image
I believed in looking at people as individuals, not in groups. I hated groups; still do. And I saw particularly the university,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The good work proceeds with tenacity, intention, without interruption, with an equal measure of passion and reason and it must surpass that… — Odilon Redon Copy Share Image
I'm listening to Spotify all the time and pulling in different things. I might find an artist or a song that I… — Greg Kurstin Copy Share Image
The galleries are simply corporations in the art world - "Here's a million dollars for this latest piece of crap" - but… — Betty Dodson Copy Share Image
“We are talking about an artist; What he makes outside him must correspond to something inside him; he can only make his… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Rembrandt was way ahead of his time. It's as if he was painting an amateur theatrical, or a professional theatrical, in his… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
TLC was so real and authentic. And that's music as a whole. When it's an artist, and it comes from the heart,… — Drew Sidora Copy Share Image
Museums have no political power, but they do have the possibility of influencing the political process. This is a complete change from… — Richard Fortey Copy Share Image
I try to find a compositional structure in the subject itself, in nature... I rely on the angle where the wall meets… — Philip Pearlstein Copy Share Image
Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“So what was Michelangelo’s real message? “SELF-PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST”? A more profound and legitimate explanation of the Sistine is that perhaps… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
The first time you listen to someone else's interpretation of what you've created, it's a little unnerving. They'll change lyrics or something… — Chris Stapleton Copy Share Image
I didn't know how to play guitar until I was 21, but from the moment I was good enough on guitar to… — Luke Combs Copy Share Image
The love of spectacles was the taste, or rather passion, of the Syrians: the most skilful artists were procured form the adjacent… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
when I came to know Greek art I instantly understood that excess and perfection are enemies; yet on the other hand this… — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
“I’m…getting there. I’m beginning to think that maybe it’s okay to be a blank canvas. Maybe it’s okay that my future is… — Stephanie Perkins Copy Share Image
“My father said being an artist is the shortest road to the poor house , claiming "real" work is something you don't… — Russell Chatham Copy Share Image
