For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There was once a time when art history and film were basically the same medium, but art history is frozen in late-19th-century… — Robert Nelson Copy Share Image
Art lives and dies in the unique heart of he who carries it, just as all feelings only live and expand in… — Marianne von Werefkin Copy Share Image
What is the use of aesthetics if they can neither teach how to produce beauty nor how to appreciate it in good… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
The individual representation of the object, treated sympathetically or antipathetically, is highly necessary and is an enrichment to the world in form.… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
That's something as an artist, when you're young, you don't necessarily think of. You're just doing music and whatever feels right to… — B-Real Copy Share Image
“It is not I who mix the colors but your own vision,' he answered. 'I only place them next to one another… — Pavich Milorad Copy Share Image
When you see paintings of some of the saints, or of Christ, they all have lights around their heads. What the painters… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It would be most wholesome if for at least twenty years art historians were forbidden to refer to any derivations. If they… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
That's what artists do, that's what poets do - we all do it. We start with something, and sometimes we destroy everything… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I'm not necessarily interested in being the best Indian artist. I want to be the best artist I can be. That's enough… — Anish Kapoor Copy Share Image
Some artists are told what to like and told definitions of what the music business is. That's a problem. Music is artistry,… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
I enjoyed art in school. I've always done little drawings and stuff like that. I don't really know what I'm doing with… — Alex Lifeson Copy Share Image
I believe art is utterly important. It is one of the things that could save us. We don't have to rely totally… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
The big shock of my life was Abstract Expressionism - Pollock, de Kooning, those guys. It changed my work. I was an… — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
Allowing artist-illustrators to control the design and content of statistical graphics is almost like allowing typographers to control the content, style, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I felt that, in retrospect, there was a time in the late Seventies, after I had a string of hits and successes,… — Boz Scaggs Copy Share Image
I write a lot and I will have some originals on the record. I think it is a mistake for an artist… — Michael Buble Copy Share Image
I'm not an impressionist as such, and I never will be, so the sketches where I was supposed to be a famous… — Will Sasso Copy Share Image
If you imitate the forms of a single artist through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you… — Cennino Cennini Copy Share Image
In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I've got a nice collection of paintings - a Basquiat, a black-and-white Warhol that's like a Rorschach test, and I commissioned Takashi… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
I think in all cultural organizations there has to be renewal. I'm also of a certain age that someone new can come… — Zarin Mehta Copy Share Image
I've seen Leonardo Da Vinci notebooks which are filled with tiny, messy scrawls written in mirror image across the page. I'd love… — William Gurstelle Copy Share Image
An artist makes a painting, and nobody bugs him or her about it. It's just you and your painting. To me, that's… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
I like the idea of my art being a covetable object; I like preciousness. A lot of art seems to flaunt its… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
The exhibition has now become no more than a bazaar where mediocrity spreads itself out with impudence. The exhibitions are useless and… — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Copy Share Image
There are some really amazing artists and people behind the scenes who are really effective in championing feminism in the music industry,… — Charli XCX Copy Share Image
Our Exhibitions [The Royal Academy] have... a mischievous tendency, by seducing the Painter to an ambition of pleasing indiscriminately the mixed multitude… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
“I was a masterpiece; a painting in itself. He was changing me, molding me, and making me into something brand new. I… — Evelyn Deshane Copy Share Image
You know, the age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because… — Fiona Apple Copy Share Image
It really has become the singular motivation in my life - to surrender to the art and to the free expression of… — Ed Kowalczyk Copy Share Image
The way that I'm working now is basically the way I've been working since I was a kid: Find the greatest artist… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
A lot of Appalachian music has a certain haunted, foggy feel to it; a certain sinister quality. And that transcends who is… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
“If the work comes to the artist and says, 'Here I am, serve me,' then the job of the artist, great or… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“A true artist willingly removes their heart, allows constructive criticism to stomp it, then puts it back--bruised and aching--to continue improving due… — H.G. Mewis Copy Share Image
In order to figure this artmaking stuff out, it's trial and error and experimentation, and takes some time and hard thinking. Putting… — Jim Goldberg Copy Share Image
Usually my starting point is something that I've seen. It might be a painting, it might be an object. But they always… — Russell Hoban Copy Share Image
My art is representational by choice…if the art of painting is to survive, it must describe and express people, their lives and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
People don't care how you feel. You need to paint pictures, you need to tell stories. That's what people want. They want… — Glenn Frey Copy Share Image
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