I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it? — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
When demagogues and dictators ban art, this is the reason: art is the great solvent of obedient fundamentalism. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits. — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
Being a sensitive empath is a beautiful thing as an artist, and it fosters a deep burning curiosity about why we do… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
All passes, Art alone Enduring stays to us; The Bust out-lasts the throne,-- The coin, Tiberius. — Henry Austin Dobson Copy Share Image
Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus. — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
I don't think it pays to just be an artist, particularly for kids of color - there will be fewer roles. — Malik Yoba Copy Share Image
African American writers and artists, by the very nature of what they do, will actually enhance or bring together people in a… — Jerry Pinkney Copy Share Image
“DeLillo presents art as the soundest magic against dread, the truest source of radiance and community. Albeit tentatively and ambiguously, Underworld suggests… — Mark Osteen Copy Share Image
I must learn to express the gentle vibration of things: the intrinsically rough texture. I must find this expression in drawings; in… — Paula Modersohn-Becker Copy Share Image
“Artists have a habit of becoming what they practice on the canvas. Who knows when it began? When he discovered that the… — Megan Rich Copy Share Image
Like every artist that comes out, you want to make a mark; you want to be a household name and you want… — Olly Murs Copy Share Image
“The thing you have to remember about artists...is never to trust their immediate response. Whatever the news, their reaction will be self-protective.… — Norman Lebrecht Copy Share Image
The Prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the old Italian painting of a martyr whose intestines are slowly unwound from… — Eduard Hanslick Copy Share Image
The main reason he wanted to be a recording artist was because it gives you much more freedom in your writing. You… — Cynthia Weil Copy Share Image
A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
