We aren't suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
What a museum chooses to exhibit is sometimes less important than how such decisions are made and what values inform them. To… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
“But then, we all tell ourselves stories about ourselves. The money man tells himself that by getting rich he is actually enriching… — William Landay Copy Share Image
June Jordan once said something which is just wonderful. I'm paraphrasing her-that her function as a poet was to make revolution irresistible.… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I'm really interested with the way light plays on images and one of the artists that really reawakened my interest in comic… — James Marsters Copy Share Image
I don't think it's about art being a career but it's about making sure that if art is something that you love,… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
“A corollary of this has been that Christians have thought that they should only create art with a Pollyanna quality to it:… — Steve Turner Copy Share Image
What most artists using photography feel that they need to do is to show that they are serious, that they are not… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
I fell in love with painting. Painting allows me to see things as I want to and not necessarily as they are,… — Pittacus Lore Copy Share Image
Sometimes magnificent visual art takes root in the humblest of soils. Advertisements painted on old barns, tattoos, fruit crate labels, hot rod… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
In the future, an artist will be able to perform for the entire world in one date. For the fan, it will… — Troy Carter Copy Share Image
There was this enormous burst of sculptural creative juice in the nineteenth century, and all that stuff is just so decorative. Even… — Hugh Hardy Copy Share Image
I love art dealers. In some ways, they're my favorite people in the art world. Really. I love that they put their… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I've got such great people around me. They don't really care if they make me angry. A lot of teams, they're afraid… — Justin Bieber Copy Share Image
To me, every interview, even if you love the artist, needs to be somewhat adversarial. Which doesn't mean you need to attack… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is a world-class con artist. He conned all these people that signed up for Trump University. Now he's trying to… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Of course, the process of curating is different from art making. Exhibition-making is a process that involves collaboration with various participating artists. — Yasumasa Morimura Copy Share Image
“We will be happy if we can get around to the idea that art is not an outside and extra thing; that… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
I would like to see more airplay for all artists, no matter what age. I think there's a lot of money being… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be an artist of some sort and I was really shy growing up, so performing didn't really seem… — Alison Sudol Copy Share Image
Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot… — Friedensreich Hundertwasser Copy Share Image
I've worked really hard. I've made three pieces of seminal art in my life. If I died tomorrow, I'd be remembered for… — Tracey Emin Copy Share Image
I enjoy painting. It's an incredible release of tension, and I feel very excited doing it. I squeeze out some wonderful red… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
You'd never look at a Rembrandt and say, 'That's just wood and canvas and paint - how much?!' It's all about how… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
I think the art world is one of the last bastions of this kind of sexism where there is a mythology about… — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
'Painting like a child' isn't a negative for me... it's something only great artists can really achieve. The childlike quality of some… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
Every person who is really an artist desires to create inside of himself another, deeper, more interesting life than the one that… — Constantin Stanislavski Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as a comedian, but as an artist, a scientist and chemist who just happens to be funny.… — Marlon Wayans Copy Share Image
The artist-muse relationship is romantic and passionate, and complex, and I would imagine that would be a hard relationship to have if… — Kate Bosworth Copy Share Image
I am increasingly unimpressed by works of art that require a college degree to understand. I think that art should be for… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
I think great art comes from being open and creative with somebody, and of course, if feelings start getting involved in that,… — Sam Palladio Copy Share Image
I've experienced some really very obvious, direct homophobia - when I was still trying to be an artist, behind the scenes, being… — Justin Tranter Copy Share Image
“I needed to take her to a concert, or maybe invite her out to go stencil street art in the middle of… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
We might say that both the artist and theneurotic bite off more than they can chew, but the artist spews it back… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
The artist must operate on the assumption that the public consists in the highest order of individual; that he is civilized, cultured,… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
It's really hard to be an artist and put out records and put your heart out there. It's such a gamble, and… — Diane Birch Copy Share Image
I know it is common nowadays for artists to start labels but this is a thoroughly constructed vehicle for inspired talent. This… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
To a nonpainter, oil paint is uninteresting and faintly unpleasant. To a painter, it is the life's blood: a substance so utterly… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
The 'Women' had to do with the female painted through all ages, all those idols, and maybe I was stuck to a… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
Art is revelation instead of information, expression instead of description, creation instead of imitation or repetition. Art is concerned with the HOW,… — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
