I don't work from drawings and colour sketches into a final painting. Painting, I think, today - the more immediate, the more… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
I don't think that the big crunch should be seen as a menace, but rather as an opportunity. It's one of these… — Maurizio Cattelan Copy Share Image
You have to take from each artist what works for you, and then create your own sound. You put different combinations in… — Al B. Sure Copy Share Image
In the early days of my carer as an actor, I shared what was then the prevailing attitude of Negro performers :;that… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The nature of being an artist in any field, but specifically in comedy, is that almost as soon as you finish something… — Raphael Bob-Waksberg Copy Share Image
The musician of disordered sound, the poet of decomposed language, the painter and sculptor of the fragmented visual and tactile world: they… — Heinz Kohut Copy Share Image
I respect Lady Gaga's work as an artist and as a fellow fashion icon. She is a very talented performer, playing the… — Roisin Murphy Copy Share Image
“Artists are dishonest creatures really. They foist their version of reality upon us while making it all up. Writers, painters, musicians, auteurs—they’re… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's much harder, much more work to be your own artist, and it's hard for me to just want to do one… — Gail Ann Dorsey Copy Share Image
I've been doing this for seven and a half years. I've been just bustin' it, trying to break in as an artist… — Josh Holloway Copy Share Image
What an artist worries about when he plans his pictures, is something... difficult to put into words. Perhaps he would say he… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
In 2008 it's easy to get huge before you have an album out with the Internet. I think that's great and you… — Girl Talk Copy Share Image
Art is never about provocation and never about human taste. Since the human being is not the measure for art, provocation cannot… — Jonathan Meese Copy Share Image
The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the… — Adam Ferguson Copy Share Image
“As Daniel had tried to decide if they should just leave the painting where it sat on the sidewalk, he’d seen an… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I'm happy that the evolution of art in the past 25 years, and the place of art in global culture-and even finance-has… — Tony Shafrazi Copy Share Image
We ultimately use good art as a tool for people to contextualize themselves, and the folks in all the places we play… — Liv Bruce Copy Share Image
What we accepted as great art - whether the book, the script, the painting, the symphony - is that which could be… — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
People usually forget that fashion designers are not artists, but there is an artistic side that is very strong in my point… — Nicolas Ghesquiere Copy Share Image
Take criticism, smash it into dust. Add color and use it to paint breathtaking images of unicorns frolicking through endless fields of… — Matthew Gray Gubler Copy Share Image
Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game. I don't know if you ever played competitive… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
The current climate doesn't represent a threat to the production of art but to the market. I think it's time for artists… — Maurizio Cattelan Copy Share Image
The only sensible way to regard the art life is that it is a privilege you are willing to pay for... You… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would… — Neil Simon Copy Share Image
Can you believe that, to say that ours is the only path when the fundamental thing in art is freedom! In art,… — Rufino Tamayo Copy Share Image
Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
New artists will be discovered and trained. Moreover, when the artists who've gone abroad return home, they can share and pass on… — Ryan Cayabyab Copy Share Image
People don't mind immoral messages. They don't mind art which says that murder is good, cruelty is good, sex for sex's sake… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I've also worked with various producers and artists around the world, which has helped with my international recognition. We've sold a lot… — SonReal Copy Share Image
I have always sought to be understood and, while I was taken to task by critics or colleagues, I thought they were… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
The inferiority of photographs to the best works of artists, so far as resemblance is concerned, lies in their catching no more… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
It is, in fact, safe to assume that, more often than not, life imitates craft, for who among us can say that… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
It's frustrating always being compared to Britney because we are two very different artists... We both dance and sing but people have… — Christina Aguilera Copy Share Image
It is remarkable how very individual technique becomes in watercolour. Every man of personality finally arrives at a method peculiarly his own,… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
This is the secret of spiritual life: to think that I am the Atman and not the body, and that the whole… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“During the act of making something, I experience a kind of blissful absence of the self and a loss of time. When… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
If you really want to be an artist, you search yourself, and you find a lot of it comes from earlier times.… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
“Because this painting has never been restored there is a heightened poignance to it somehow; it doesn’t have the feeling of unassailable… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
“If an artist of the caliber of Leonardo or Michelangelo was paid a hefty commission for a new private piece of art,… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
